Claudio Maccone (born 6 February 1948, in Torino (Turin), Italy)[1] is an Italian SETI astronomer, space scientist and mathematician.

[1] In 1985 he briefly held a position as "Professore di ruolo" in Mathematics at "Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein" in Turin.

"[2] After his early retirement from Alenia Spazio S.p.A. on December 30, 2004, he taught at Politecnico di Torino for five years (2005-2009) at Post-Doctoral level.

[1] Maccone's third book Deep Space Flight and Communications – Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens was published by Praxis-Springer in 2009.

[6] Maccone's fifth highly mathematical book, Evo-SETI – Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets, was published in February 2021, website.