Alfonso Cavaliere - Curriculum vitae#

• 1957 Laurea cum laude in Physics at Rome University
• 1959-69 Researcher at Plasma Physics Laboratory CNEN, Frascati
• 1969- 70 Research Associate ESRO-NASA, Center for Space Research MIT
• 1970- 71 Senior Scientist in the X-ray Group led by R. Giacconi at ASE, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1971- 72 Visiting Scientist at ESRIN-ESA, Frascati
• 1972- 74 Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of L Aquila
• 1974-76 Research Director at the Institute for Space Astrophysics, CNR, Frascati
• 1976-79 Full Professor of Cosmology at Padova University
• 1979-82 Full Professor of Astrophysics at Rome University, La Sapienza
• 1986-92 Director of Rome Astronomical Observatory
• 1984-2008 Full Professor of Astrophysics at University of Rome Tor Vergata

• Discovery of X-ray emission from hot, diffuse baryons in galaxy Clusters and Groups
• The now standard, p-model for the radiai distribution of the hot intracluster plasma and its bremsstrahlung emission
• How entropy sets the baryon apart from the dark matter distribution in galaxy Clusters Distance of galaxy Clusters from X-ray luminosity and CMB spectral perturbation
• Non-thermal emissions from AGN and Quasars
• Continuity equation for the luminosity function of Quasars and its cosmological evolution
• Models of gamma-ray emissions from Blazars