Short CV

  • 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)