New Perspectives in Science Education

Maura Sandri was born in Bologna, Italy, in January 1974. She received her Laurea degree in astronomy in 1999 at the University of Bologna presenting a thesis on the measurement of the Allan Variance in radio astronomical and spatial applications. Since 2000, she works on the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck mission. She attained her Ph.D. degree in astronomy in 2005 at the University of Padua. She is responsible of the in-flight main beams reconstruction, she is the coordinator of Planck Optics Core Team Area since the year 2007, and since November 2011 she is the coordinator of an international scientific working group aimed to evaluate the impact of the optical systematic effects on anisotropy power spectra and cosmological parameters estimation. She is Planck Scientist from 2006. She worked at the optical design of BEAST and LSPE-STRIP, and she was responsible of a work-package within the ASI-mm project devoted to study optical configurations for future polarization experiments at millimetre wavelength. Currently, she works on LSPE-STRIP and on the iALMA Project. Since two years, she is a member of the INAF-OAS Education and Public Outreach group.