Nicolò D'Amico (1953-2020), also known as Nichi D’Amico, was an astronomer and President of

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica The National Institute for Astrophysics (, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn employ scientists, engineers and techn ...

Personal life

He was born on 28 June 1953 in

Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...

. He was married and had a daughter. He died on 15 September 2020 in

Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...

Career

He was a professor of astrophysics at the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari () is a public research university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 along the lines of the old ...

, and the director of the Cagliari Observatory and the

Sardinia Radio Telescope The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is 64-metre fully steerable radio telescope near San Basilio, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Completed in 2011, it is a collaboration between the Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna, the Cagliari O ...

. He was the president of

since 16 October 2015, with a second 4-year term confirmed on 30 December 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:D'Amico, Nicolò 20th-century Italian astronomers 1953 births 2020 deaths Scientists from Palermo Academic staff of the University of Cagliari Italian astrophysicists 21st-century Italian astronomers