Roberto Nesci

Professor of Astrophysics at La Sapienza University until 2011. Now associate researcher at INAF/IAPS Roma. Co-founder in 1997 of the WEBT collaboration for monitoring Active Galactic Nuclei. Since 2010 member of the TANAMI collaboration for AGN study (http://pulsar.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/tanami/). He realised the digitization of the Markarian Survey plates and the automatic extraction, available at http://ia2.oats.inaf.it/archives/. Presently involved also in variability studies of AGB stars. Author of 108 papers with H-index 31. Main past didactic activity at La Sapienza University: - Basic Astronomy for the Natural Sciences degree; - Introduction to Astrophysics for the Physics degree; - Laboratory of Astrophysics for Physics and Astrophysics degree.