consegutio After his doctorate in astrophysics in Catania, I worked for about two years in Italy at the INAF (Catania and Naples) and for about a year a Research Fellow at ESTEC, the Dutch established the European Space Agency (ESA). My line of research is to study young stars and matter (dust and gas) that surrounds them. This study is of particular importance in astrophysics, since the formation of planets is related to the evolution of circumstellar matter. In other words, to understand how our solar system is formed, we need young stars in which the formation of planetary systems is still to come or is in progress. My approach to this type of study is purely observational. Working with data from telescopes in the Chilean Europena Southern Observatory (ESO, Chile), the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel (in the near future).
The European Space Agency is a very unique working environment for an astronomer, as it offers the advantages of a good research institute (the Research and Scientific Support Department, ESA-RSSD), however, placed inside a large company ( ESA has about 5000 employees). Given the main objectives of the ESA (the exploration space, human space flight, telecommunications and satellite navigation, etc.), it includes several areas of character engineering, information technology, administrative, etc.. This variety of skills means that the ESA is a constant swarm of ideas, projects, and new people with different training. To an astronomer it is certainly a stimulating environment that allows you to grow in their profession as a researcher but also to broaden their knowledge and skills to more technical aspects. This rich, from my point of view, the training of an astronomer. In addition, the fact that the working relationship within the ESA are very friendly, the comparison with other costrittuvo healthy. We always feel in the race to do better but it is a path group, not individually, you feel part of a large "machine" while maintaining awareness of their particular role.
Obviously all this must be added the fact that ESA is an international organization for which this is its staff. Walking is the long corridors at lunchtime, you have the opportunity to hear at least a dozen languages: English, French, English, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and German are just the most common languages, but even if you're lucky greek, Polish, Czech, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, and also because some years the ESA offers the possibility of forward contracts for citizens of countries outside the European Union. To linguistic diversity and thus cultural, generational diversity is then added. Assim permanent staff, in fact, the ESA is full of young people between 20 and 30, which held at the agency's thesis (stageers), a post-graduate training period of approximately one year (young trainees ) or post-doctoral (research fellows), as in my case. To combine this variety of languages, cultures and life styles, ESA offers its employees language courses (English, French and Dutch) and vocational training (courses in programming, updates, seminars, meetings and conferences, etc.) but also recreational activities (attività sportive, lettura, musica, cinema,etc). Non si ha un'idea completa di ESA-ESTEC senza aver visto ESCAPE, il regno dell'attività di ricreazione !!!!
Loredana Spezzi
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