Ferdinando Patat

Ferdinando (Nando) Patat holds a Masters and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Padova, Italy. He was an ESO student in Garching and a postdoctoral ESO Fellow at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. He currently leads ESO’s Observing Programmes Office, the department in charge of telescope time allocation. A member of numerous international collaborations, he mainly works in the field of supernova explosions in the local Universe.