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In January 2005, he became Branch Manager for the Astronomy Tools and Applications (ASTTA) branch at STScI's Engineering System and Software Division. ASTTA develops some of the best-known software products for the astronomical community, such as Astronomer Proposal Tool, PyRAF, and Multidrizzle.
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he became Development Manager at STScI's Community Missions Office (CMO). CMO serves as the conduit between mission teams and STScI personnel to ensure support for mission science operations, data archiving, grants administration, peer review and education/outreach.
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Scranton, Ryan; Connolly, Andrew; Krughoff, Simon; Brewer, Jeremy; Conti, Alberto; Christian, Carol; McLean, Brian; Sosin, Craig; Coombe, Greg; Heckbert, Paul (2007). "Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization".
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with a Ph.D. thesis on correlating galactic properties with the physics of galaxy formation. He then became a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the
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In 2011, Conti became the Innovation Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier space observatory of the next decade.
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In 2010, Conti became the Archive Scientist for the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope, the NASA UV and Optical data archive.
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Conti, Alberto (2003). "The Star Formation History of Galaxies Measured from Individual Pixels. I. The Hubble Deep Field North".
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In September 2006, Conti became Chief Engineer for the Data Management System at STScI. Following his involvement with
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which launched on December 25, 2021. In this same year, he was promoted to vice president and General Manager for the
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2007 Google TechTalk - New Frontiers in Astronomy: Hubble and beyond (with Carol Christian)
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Bianchi, Luciana (2014). "The ultraviolet sky: An overview from the GALEX surveys".
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At the 15th annual ADASS conference in October 2005, Conti became interested in the
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In 2018, Conti became the Director for New Business and Innovative Solutions at
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with a simple point-and-click interface. Back at STScI he sent a proposal to
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In 2013, Conti became the Innovation Manager for the Civil Air and Space at
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establish a project plan for such a product, called GoogleSky.
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of galaxies at the International School for Advanced Studies (
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where he focused on the star formation history of galaxies.
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New technique to help astronomers deal with wealth of data
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