Re: new country/job (was: Re: Mount Stromlo Observatory destroyed by fires)

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 12:21:29 MST


Mike Lorrey:
>Having not learned Italian, I'm not quite sure what "Consiglio" is,
>though Google says it is 'council'. Okay. What are you doing

There's not necessarily an overlap between what the job actually is
and what is written on paper in my contract. (well, this is Italy.)
Work related to existing and in-the-process-of-being- built infrared
spectrometers on space missions: Cassini, Rosetta, Dawn, Venus
Express. My old boss likes to say it is still about dust, but remote
sensing. My dust work with my old Heidelberg group continues too.
The idea is that this is a permanent job (that was/is my goal), so
we'll see how both sides feel after the trial period.

btw: CNR ("National Research Council") is the network of national
research institutes like the Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany or the
CNRSs in France. However Berlusconi has been trying to eliminate
them for the last year (whether he will succeed, is not clear, in
any case, there are enormous budget cuts causing large problems),
and CNR won't be my parent institution for long anyway. IFSI is
moving to be under the network of astronomical observatories (INAF
is the acronym, I think) in the sometime future, which makes more
sense for this group.

-- 
Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, ITALIA
Amara.Graps@ifsi.rm.cnr.it


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