Gaia People

Giorgia Busso

Leiden Observatory

Giorgia Busso obtained her PhD at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel (Germany) in 2007 with a thesis about the hot subdwarf stars in the Galactic Bulge. She started to work on Gaia during her first PostDoc at the Observatory of Teramo in Italy. Now she is a postdoctoral fellow at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands, where she collaborates with Anthony Brown.

Giorgia is a member of DU11 in CU5 and her work is focused mainly on the development of the methods and algorithms for the processing of the dispersed images from BP/RP.

Her scientific interests are Horizontal Branch stars, globular clusters, Galactic bulge and UV excess in elliptical galaxies and bulge of spirals.

[Published: 25/02/2010]