Franco Malerba
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Franco Egidio Malerba | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 19 July 1994 – 19 July 1999 | |
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| Born | 10 October 1946 1989 ESA Group |
| Missions | STS-46 |
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Franco Egidio Malerba (born 10 October 1946 in Busalla, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy) is an Italian astronaut and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space. In 1994, he was elected to the European Parliament on the lists of Forza Italia, serving until 1999.
Education
- 1965 Maturità classica (Lyceum).
- 1970 University degree, Electronics Engineer, University of Genoa, Italy, specializing in the telecommunications field (laurea 110/110 cum Laude).
- 1974 Doctor in Physics, University of Genoa, (110/110) specializing in Biophysics (after research work at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA).
Organizations
Founding Member of the Italian Space Society.
Research activities
- 1970-75 Research Assistant at CNR's Laboratorio de Biofisica e Cibernetica (Genoa) carrying experimental work on membrane biophysics (using squid axons) and biological membrane modeling with lipid bilayers.
- 1971 Lecturer of Cybernetics and Information Theory at the Physics Faculty, University of Genoa.
- 1972 Summer Research Assistant at the Nato Saclant Research Center (La Spezia, Italy) working on computer-aided signal detection methodologies for sonar data systems.
- 1972-74 Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) designing, developing, testing and using a fast micro-spectrophotometer for research on photoreceptors biophysics (using frog retinas).
- 1977-80 In 1977, Dr. Malerba was chosen by the Payload Specialist Candidates for the first Spacelab mission. After this selection he became a staff member at the European Space Research and Technology Centre(ESTEC) of ESA Space Science Department, Space Plasma Physics Division, working in the development, testing, and qualification of ES020 - PICPAB, an experiment in Ionospheric Plasma Physics for the first Spacelab payload, flown in 1983, involving the use of accelerated charged particle beams (cooperation involved French CNRS/CRPE, Norwegian NRDE and ESTEC).
Industry experience
- 1976-89 Held technical and technical management positions with Digital Equipmentin Italy and in Europe. He worked mainly in the field of multiprocessor systems (Paris 1976, Milan 1977), computer networks engineering (Geneva 1981-85), and telecommunications technology (Rome 1986–88, and Sophia Antipolis in 1989).
Military experience
Reserve Officer,
Other skills
Obtained scuba diving license from the Calypso Scuba Club, Geneva (1984).
Flying status
Obtained Private Pilot License (College Park, Washington, D.C., 1973) and then the equivalent Italian flying license.
Spaceflight experience
After selection in 1989 as a
External links
- "DR. FRANCO MALERBA, PH.D. PAYLOAD SPECIALIST" (PDF). NASA. March 2000. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
- Spacefacts biography of Franco Malerba
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