Giampaolo Vettolani (born 27 December 1950) is an Italian astrophysicist, scientific director of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome (INAF) since 2012.
[1] In 1973 he graduated with a distinction in physics from the University of Bologna upon the thesis The angular momentum of galaxies (Il momento angolare delle Galassie), supervised by Giancarlo Setti.
From 1976 until 1988 he worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Radioastronomy (Istituto di Radioastronomia, IRA) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).
From 1994 until 1999 Vettolani was a member of the National Committee for Physical Sciences of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
He made contributions to books Wide-Field Spectroscopy (as co-editor, Springer 1997) and Catalogue Of Radial Velocities (as co-author, Routledge 2001).