Gaia People

Michele Bellazzini

European Space Astronomy Centre

I was born in a nice town on the Ligurian sea, Santa Margherita Ligure, near Genova, in 1966. I got my degree in astronomy in 1991 and my PhD in 1996, both at the Bologna University. I'm a researcher astronomer (staff) at INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna since 1997. My research is focused on stellar populations, globular clusters, dwarf galaxies and galaxy formation, mainly from an observational point of view.

I started working for Gaia in late 2005, in CU5, and particularly on the absolute flux calibration of Gaia BP/RP spectra and G band photometry.

[Published: 05/12/2008]