Romano Corradi at the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)

Romano Corradi at the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in Spain. Born in Italy, Romano Corradi received a PhD in Astrophysics from Padova University. After working at ESO's La Silla Observatory from 1991–1993, he moved to the Canary Islands with a fellowship from one of the first mobility programmes of the European Union. Since then, he worked at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and later at the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes. He is now a staff researcher at the IAC and, since 2016, is the director of the 10.4-metre Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). His main scientific interests are the late stages of stellar evolution, and the chemistry of the interstellar medium in the nearby Universe.