Virtual school registration
This is the registration page for the virtual edition of the RED Training School (June 16th – 19th). This online Training School will feature recorded lectures from the current year’s in-person RED event. Each streamed lecture will be followed by a live Q&A session with the speaker. Throughout the week, attendees will have the chance to network with students from all around the world, connect with the lecturers, present their PhD topics (optional), and share and discuss research across disciplines. All lectures will be conducted in English.
Once your registration has been validated, you will get the login to access the interface for this virtual school.
Participants who watch the whole lecture series and succeed in short quizzes about it will receive a certificate of attendance. Live animations and Q&A sessions will be organized at CEST (UTC + 2), but you can watch the lectures and replays of the Q&A session at your convenience in your time zone.
Registrations are open until June 9th, 1 PM CEST (UTC +2).
👉 The registration form is located under the Lecturers presentation. Go to registration form
👉 You can also consult the full programme here (PDF).
Teachers of the year
Dust in Space, Comets, Interplanetary Dust Particles, Space Instrument Development, Astrobiology
Alessandra Rotundi is full professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Science and Technology of the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy. She graduated in Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and obtained a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”. She coordinated the only Italian team selected by NASA dedicated to the analysis of dust samples collected in the coma of comet Wild2 and brought back to Earth by the Stardust/NASA space probe (2006-2007). Since 2010 she is responsible for the GIADA instrument that flew on board the Rosetta/ESA space probe, for the characterization of the dust coma of comet 67PC-G. In 2017 she was invited by the University of Paris-Sud as “Professeur Invités”. As part of the Comet Interceptor/ESA space mission (launch scheduled for 2029), she was the Mission National Manager (2019-2022) and she is the Deputy-PI of the DISC instrument, part of the on-board payload, which will characterize the physical properties of the dust of a dynamically new comet or interstellar object. Curiosity: in 2017 the National newspaper “Corriere della Sera” included her among the 50 women in the world who stood out for their professional results.