Gianluca Masi

    Thirty-five years old, he graduate in Astrophysics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and hearned a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Expert in CCD astronomy, particularly in photometry and astrometry, his current scientific interests include minor bodies in the solar system (mainly near-Earth Objects), cataclysmic variables and the cosmological distance ladder.  He contributes to many international astronomical magazines.He spent several months in Chile, at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), investigating near-Earth Asteroids and comets. He is the owner of the Virtual Telescope Project, making a number of telescopes available to anyone over the Internet. Because of his activities, he was awarded with several prizes and the asteroid (21795) was named "Masi" after him.