Giacomo Tommei

Giacomo Tommei is Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics (Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa).

He got his PhD in Mathematics in 2006 from University of Pisa. Then, he got post-doc positions by the ISTI-CNR and by the University of Pisa. Then, after a 1-year experience as co-CEO of a private company operating in the field of space mechanics, he got a position as Tenured Assistant Professor in 2011 (maintained until to 2017). His research is in the field of theoretical and computational celestial mechanics. In particular he has expertise in the field of orbit determination of asteroids and impact monitoring of NEOs: he is a member of the NEODyS team and a developer of the OrbFit software. His research includes also mathematical algorithms to solve the correlation problem for the space debris environment. His current research includes the radio science experiments of the ESA mission BepiColombo (gravity field of Mercury, testing of general relativity in space), the NASA mission Juno (gravity field of Jupiter) and the ESA mission Hera: in particular, his group has developed a software tool to process tracking data independently from the NASA software MONTE.

He is author of a lot of papers published in international peer-reviewed journal and in international conference proceedings. He wrote a textbook "Matematica di Base" (in italian) published by Maggioli (second edition in 2015, first edition in 2010) and he edited the Italian translation of the book "Mathematics for the Life Sciences" by E.N. Bodine, S. Lehnart and L.J. Gross (2016).

He has been lecturer in many courses of elementary mathematics for students of the Faculty of Natural Science and in Mechanics courses for students of Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering.
In 2008 the name Tommei has been assigned to the asteroid (89735).

For more details see the web site people.unipi.it/tommei