Dr Claudio Pagani

I studied Physics at the Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria (Italy). I was a Research Assistant at the Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University from 2004 to 2010 as a team member of the Swift satellite project a NASA-led mission to study Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). I've been working at the University of Leicester since 2010 on different space astronomy missions, as a calibration scientist for NASA's Swift, as Project Lead in the Gaia Data Analysis and Processing Consortium, as an instrument and software scientist on the SMILE project, a joint ESA-CAS mission launched in 2026 to study the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere and as a Project Manager for NewAthena's WISC Datacentre.

I'm a research associate at the University of Leicester. I work as an instrument and software scientist on the SMILE project, a joint ESA-CAS mission launched in May 2026 to study the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere and I am Project Manager for the NewAthena WFI Instrument Science Centre (WISC) project.

Gaia serial charge transfer inefficiency modelling and radiation damage study, Pagani, C.,; et al., 2026, A&A, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202557540

Recovering Swift-XRT energy resolution through CCD charge trap mapping, Pagani, C.; et al. 2011, A&A, 534, 20, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117660

The Swift X-ray flaring afterglow of GRB 050607, Pagani, C.; et al., 2006, ApJ 645, 1315, doi: 10.1086/504518

Host Galaxies of low z Radio-loud Quasars: A search of HST archives Pagani, C.; Falomo, R.; Treves, A. 2003, ApJ 596 830-839, doi: 10.1086/378199

Characterization and evolution of the Swift X-ray Telescope instrumental background, Pagani, C.; et al. 2007, in SPIE
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