!!Alberto Franceschini - Curriculum Vitae \\ __POSITIONS__ \\ *Full Professor, Padova University, courses on Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics.\\ *Member of CISAS, Padova University.\\ *Former member of the Astronomy Working Group (ESA).\\ *Former member of the ESO "Observing Program Committee", Cosmology panel.\\ *Co-I of the IR camera ISOCAM on the ISO satellite (ESA).\\ *Team Scientist of the camera/spectrograph VISIR on VLT.\\ *PI of ISO observations of high-z galaxy clusters and AGNs.\\ *Co-I of the camera/spectrograph SPIRE on the ESA mission FIRST.\\ *Team Scientist of the LFI instrument of the PLANCK mission.\\ *PI of a project of IR spectroscopy with ISAAC/VLT of high-z galaxies.\\ *AWG expert for the NASA/ESA project "JWST".\\ *PI of X-ray surveys with XMM of ultraluminous IR galaxies.\\ *Team Scientist of the spectrograph SINFONI on VLT.\\ *Italian lead of the EC TMR Network POE "Probing the Origing of the Extragalactic Background Radiation".\\ *Co-I of the "Legacy" program Spitzer Wide Area Infrared Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE) of the NASA Spitzer observatory.\\ *Co-I of the "COSMOS" program for multi-wavelength Wide Area cosmological survey with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer\\ *Space Observatory and the VLT/VIMOS multi-object spectrograph.\\ *PI of the Large Programme "ESO-Spitzer Imaging Survey (ESIS)".\\ *Co-Investigator of COSMOS 590 orbit ACS/HST survey.\\ *Chair of the INAF Working Group on "Active Galaxies and Quasars".\\ *Chair of the Cosmology panel for the Observing Time Committee of the Japanese Space Infrared Observatory ASTRO-F.\\ *Member of the ESO VISTA & VST Public Survey Committee.\\ *Consultant of the INAF Italian Institute for Astrophysics for the elaboration of the Plan 2009-2011.\\ *From 2002 to 2009, Chair of the Degree Courses in Astronomy, Padova University.\\ *Collaborator of the cosmological Survey HERMES with Herschel/SPIRE (850 observing hours) and lead of the luminosity functions.\\ *Member of the ESO STC La Silla & Paranal Sub-Committee.