- Personal data
Name: Augusto Damineli Neto
Birth date/place: 17/October/1947, Ibiporã, Paraná
- Brazil
Job: Permanent position at the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica
e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São
Paulo (IAG-USP) since 1977
Degree in the career: Titular (MS-6) - full professor
Resarch interest: Massive star formation
and evolution, particularly eta Carinae
- Education
Bachelor in Physics: 1973 - Institute
of Physics, USP
Master in Sciences in Astronomy: 1976, IAG-USP
Ph. D. in Astronomy: 1988, IAG-USP
Posdoc: 1988-90, IAS/CNR - Rome - Italy
- Publications and advisoring
- 46 papers in refereed Journals - 1460 citations
- 51 papers in proceedings of Colloquia
- 3 books:
- eta Carinae at the Millennium (1999)- ASP Conf. Series
179 - Eds. J. Morse, R. Humphreys & A. Damineli
- Hubble: a espansão do Universo (2003) - 3 000
volumes
- Fascínio do Universo - ed. A. Damineli and J.
Steiner - 45 000 volumes (2010)
- 4 chapters in books
- Advisor: 4PhD, 3 M. Sc.
- Most cited papers (H
index= 21)
- Damineli, A. :The 5.52 Year Cycle pf eta Carinae , ApJ
Letters, 460, 49-52, 1996. (200 citations)
- Damineli, A., Conti, P. S, and Lopes, D. F., .: Eta Carinae:
a Long Period Binary?, New Astronomy 2, 107-117, 1997 (100
citations)
- Leitherer, C., Altner, C., Damineli, A., Drissen, L., Idiart,
T., Lupie, O., Nota, A., Robert, C., Schmutz, W., and Shore, S.N.:
Geometry and Physical Conditions in the Stellar Wind of AG Carinae,
ApJ 428, 292-318,1994.(60 citations)
- Damineli, A.; Kaufer, A.; Wolf, B.; Stahl, O.; Lopes, D. F.;
de Araújo, F. X: eta Carinae: Binarity Confirmed, ApJ
528, L101-104, 200
- Blum, R.D., Damineli, A. and Conti, P.S.: The Stellar Content
of Obscured Galactic Giant HII Regions. I. W43: AJ 117, 1392-1401,
1999
- Ishibashi, K.; Corcoran, M. F.; Davidson, K.; Swank, J. H.;
Petre, R.; Drake, S. A., Damineli, A.; White, S: Recurrent X-Ray
Emission Variations of eta Carinae and the Binary Hypothesis: ApJ
524, 983, 1999
- Corcoran, M.F., Petre, R., Swank, J.H., Drake, S.A., Koyama,
K., Tsuboi, Y., Viotti, R., Damineli, A., Davidson, K., Ishibashi,
K., White, S., and Currie, D.: The ASCA Spectrum of eta Carinae,
ApJ, 494, 381-395, 1998
- Lopes, D.F., Damineli, A., & de Freitas-Pacheco, J.A.:
A Spectroscopy Study of Luminous Peculiar B-Type Stars, A&A
261, 482-, 1992
- Damineli, A..; de Freitas-Pacheco, J. A.: Infrared Excess
and Line Emission in Be-Stars: MNRAS 1928, 659, 1982
- Organization of events and participation
in committees
- Chair of the SOC: Joint discussion at the XVII IAU G.A. in
Rio de Janeiro 13-14 August 2009
- Brazilian Representative in the Gemini Board of Directors (Feb/2002-May/2004)
- Head of the Astronomy Department -USP: 2007-2008
- Vice-head of the Astronomy Department -USP (2002-2004,
2004-2006, 2008-2010)
- Member of the TAC of the GEMINI Telescope (1999-2002)
- Gemini Telescopes Project Scientist - Brazilian Representative
(1999-2000)
- Gemini Telescopes Project Scientist - Brazilian Representative
(1999-2000)
- Member of the SAC of the SOAR project (1998-1999)
- Member of the SWG of the SOAR project (1997)
- Member of the SOC: Eta Carinae and other Misterious Stars
(Hven/Sweden August/2000)
- Member of the SOC: eta Carinae at the Millennium (Montana/USA
July/1998)
- Member of the SOC: Star Formation, IXth IAGUSP Advanced
School on Astrophysics (August/1998)
- President of the SOC: Galaxy and Stellar Evolution, Xth
IAGUSP Advanced School on Astrophysics (September/2000)
- Member of the LOC: Formation of Structure in the Universe,
XIIIth IAGUSP-LENAC Advanced School on Astrophysics (April/2006)
- President of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (1990-1992)
- Secretary of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (1984-1986
and 1986-1988)
- Member of the TAC (time alloc. comm.) of LNA (National Lab.
of Astroph.) (1994, 1995, 1996)
- Research Related Activities
- Grants:
- PI of the Thematic FAPESP project to build the STELES Spectrograph
(1 MU$)
- participant in the PRONEX/FINEP project: Galaxies: Formation,
Evolution and Activity, 1.4 MU$D (1997-2001)
- participant in the FAPESP project: Star Formation and the
Milky Way Galaxy, 1.2 MU$D (2000-2004)
- participant in the MEGALIT/CNPq project (2001-2005)
- Visiting professor: 1996-1998, JILA-NIST (University of
Colorado)
- Referree: for the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Astrophysical
Journal, Astronomical Journal, PASP, A&A
- Editor: 21 volumes of the Brazilian Astronomical Society
Bulletim
- Societies membership: IAU (Comm. 29), SAB (Brazilian Astr.
Society)
- Educational/Outreach activities
- Exhibition "Paisagens Cósmicas", dispalyed
in 750 places all over Brazil, with 600 000 visitors
- IAU coordinator for the IYA2009 in Brasil (2007-2010): 2.3
milion people reached
- Coordinator of the IAGUSP Astronomy Graduate Program (1998-2001)
- Representative of the Astronomy Department in the Coordination
of the Graduate Program (2001-2003)
- Teacher at undergraduate level at the USP Physics Institute
(since 1970)
- Teacher at postgraduate level at the IAG-USP Department of
Astronomy (since 1991)
- Teacher at public middle schools (1970-1974)
- Teacher in about 20 short courses for teachers working in middle
schools
- 120 popular articles in newspapers and magazines (1 prize)-
target readers: ~3 million/month
- Scripts for 7 science TV program broadcasted by TV Globo and
TV Cultura (3 awards)
- Organization and collaboration in 10 multimedia shows for large
audience (more than 100 000 people reached)