Name:	Salvatore Orlando
Date of birth:	4 February 1968
Place of birth:	Termini Imerese (PA), Italy
Home address:	Via Roma 188, 90133 Palermo, ITALY
Position:	Research Astronomer
Institution:	Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo "G.S. Vaiana"
Business address:	Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, ITALY

• 1993: University degree in Physics (grade 110/110 with honors) at the University of Palermo, Italy. Title of the dissertation: "Siphon flows in coronal loops". Supervisor: Prof. S. Serio, Director of the Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana" (Palermo, Italy).

• 1997: Doctoral degree in Physics. Title of the dissertation: "Confined and unconfined plasma flows in the solar corona: modeling and diagnostic techniques". Supervisor: Prof. S. Serio, Director of the Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana" (Palermo, Italy).

• 1993-94: Scientific collaboration with the Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana" (Palermo, Italy) aimed to the publication of the results obtained during the undergraduate studies.

• 1995: Six months fellowship at the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department and the Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA), collaborating with Prof. R. Rosner on a program to model the propagation of the Alfven waves in the solar wind.

• 1996: Participation in a research project to study the solar-stellar connection by analyzing solar data of the Japanese satellite Yohkoh at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Sagamihara, Japan) in collaboration with Dr. H. Hudson (Solar Physics Research Corp. Tucson, Arizona), Prof. Robert Rosner (The University of Chicago, Illinois), and Prof. S. Tsuneta (The University of Tokyo, Japan).

• 1997: Contract as computer scientist at the Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana" (Palermo, Italy) to develop a data analysis system to be applied to the data collected by the Ultraviolet Coronal Spectrometer (UVCS) on board SOHO.

• 1997-99: Two years research fellowship at the Solar System Division, Space Science Department, ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands) of the European Space Agency to participate at the research activity with the instruments on board SOHO and to others research activity in the field of solar and stellar X-ray Astronomy.

• 1998: Participation in a research project to study the acceleration of solar wind heavy ions by cyclotron resonance at the International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland) in collaboration with Dr. Y.-Q. Lou (The University of Chicago, Illinois) and Prof. G. Peres (The University of Palermo, Italy).

• 1998-99: Participation as observer in the MUSICOS 98 observing campaign (in which ESA is involved) at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (Provence, France; 20-25 Nov) and at the Beijing Astronomical Observatory (Xinglong, China; 27 Nov-8 Dec), and as coordinator of the MUSICOS 98 data archiving and distribution.

• 1999-*: Present employment as Astronomer at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo "G.S. Vaiana"

• Operating Systems: Ms-Dos & Windows, Linux, Digital ULTRIX & UNIX, Solaris.

• Programming languages: Fortran 77, 90, including Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library.

• Software: Advanced usage of data analysis packages: XSPEC, Interactive Data Language (IDL).

• Word processing systems: Latex.

• Others: Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Tool Command Language (TCL).