Saving the Starry Night

Patrizia Caraveo is Research Director at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) and works at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica in Milano where she was Director from 2011 to 2017. Professor of Introduction to Astronomy at the University of Pavia, in 2009, she won the Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica. Moreover, she shared with her Swift, Fermi and Agile colleagues the Bruno Rossi prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2007, 2011 and 2012. In 2014, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Women in Aerospace European Society and was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of Highly Cited Researchers for Space Science. In 2017, she was awarded the title of Commendatore dell Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. Patrizia Caraveo is the author of several popular science books, notably " Conquistati dalla Luna" , in 2019. The " Enrico Fermi" Prize 2021 of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) has been awarded to Patrizia Caraveofor " her remarkable contributions to the study of the Universe with different observables and techniques" .