Elisa Frattin

I was born in Venice, Italy in 1986.
My fascination for the small bodies of the Solar System started during my Master’s degree at the University of Padua that concluded with a thesis in Celestial Mechanics on the orbital determination of asteroids.
I obtained my PhD working in the group of the Rosetta mission, studying the composition and dynamics of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko cometary coma.
After that, I started my career as a researcher following in the study of cosmic dust with application to comets, asteroids and planetary surfaces.
I use different techniques, as spectrophotometry, dynamical simulations, laboratory experiments and scattering applications to describe in detail the properties of the dust.
I also investigate the nature of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) performing spectroscopic observations with the telescopes of the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory.
At the moment, I am a researcher at the IAA, working in the group of Cosmic Dust and my job is mainly focused on laboratory experiments developed at the CODULAB to study the optical properties of cosmic dust analogs.