Consortium structure

Science Working Groups

Project Office


S. Campana (INAF-OABrera) – Italy – Principal Investigator

P. Schipani (INAF-OACapodimonte) – Italy - Project Scientist

R.Claudi (INAF-OAPadova) – Italy – System Engineer

P. D’Avanzo (INAF-OABrera) – Italy – Instrument Scientist



WP Managers

Instrument Scientist - Paolo D’Avanzo (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Brera)

Optics WP Manager - Matteo Munari (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Catania)

Mechanics WP Manager - Matteo Aliverti (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Brera)

Electronics WP Manager - Giulio Capasso (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Capodimonte)

Software WP Manager - Andrea Baruffolo (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Padova)

Vacuum & Cryogenics WP Manager - Salvo Scuderi (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Catania)

AIT WP Manager - Kalyan Radhakrishnan (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Padova)

Instrument Model WP Manager - Matteo Genoni (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Brera)

VIS Spectrograph WP Manager - Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann Institute)

VIS Spectrograph Optics WP Manager - Adam Rubin (Weizmann Institute)

VIS Spectrograph Mechanics WP Manager - Ofir Hershko (Weizmann Institute)

VIS Detector WP Manager - Rosario Cosentino (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Catania)

NIR Spectrograph WP Manager - Fabrizio Vitali (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Roma)

NIR WP Manager - Francesco D’Alessio (INAF - Osservatorio astronomico di Roma)

Acquisition Camera WP Manager - Anna Brucalassi (Millenium Institute & ESO) 

Calibration Unit Optics WP Manager - Haynino Kuncaraycti (Turku University)

Science Board


I. Arcavi (Tel Aviv University) – Israel

E. Cappellaro (INAF-OA Padova) – Italy

M. Della Valle (INAF-OA Napoli) – Italy

M. Stritzinger (NBI & Aarhus Univ.) – Denmark 

A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute) – Israel

S.Mattila (FINCA) – Finland

G. Pignata (Millenium Institute of Astrophysics) – Chile

S. Smartt (Queen’s Univ. Belfast) – UK

S. Campana (INAF-OA Brera) – Italy

WG Leaders link

ESO responsible for the SOXS project: Markus Schöller [Hans-Ulrich Käufl (former)]

Supervisor: Luca Pasquini

Instrument Scientist: Emanuela Pompei