Marco Bersanelli

Marco Bersanelli is Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Director of the PhD School in Physics at the University of Milan, where he does research in observational cosmology. He has participated in a number of experiments in cosmology, including two expeditions to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. He is one of the leading scientists of the Planck space mission, the European Space Agency project studying the early universe, successfully launched in 2009. In addition to numerous science papers, he published scientific and interdisciplinary essays and books, including From Galileo to Gell-Mann (Templeton Press, 2009) about the human adventure of scientific research. He serves as Science Director of Euresis, a scientific association promoting science as an expression of the broader quest for beauty and meaning.