EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1981 Graduated magna cum laude in Physics at University of Pisa
1981-1983 Fellowship at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1983 Fellowship at École Normale Supérieure, Paris
1983-1992 Assistant professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
1992-2007 Associate professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
2007-today Full professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
2021-today Director of the Ferrara Unit of the INFN, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics
2012-2018 Director of the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara
2010-2012 Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
2010-2018 Member of the Academic Senate, University of Ferrara
2004-2010 Chairman of the Council of the degree courses in Physics, University of Ferrara
1997-today Member of the Ph.D. Program Board in Physics, University of Ferrara
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
1983 Rydberg atoms
1983-2000 Measurements of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron in the time-like region
1986-2005 Charmonium spectroscopy
1984-1990 Electron cooling and related laser diagnostics
1988-1993 Ultracold gallium arsenide electron source
1993-2005 "White-light" laser cooling of ion beams and related diagnostics
2000-2020 Magneto-optical traps, trapping of francium atoms
2002-today Study of the B meson decays, test of the Standard Model of particle physics
2009-today Development of photodetectors and of particle detectors in rare gas solids
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2003-today Teacher, “Optics Laboratory” and “Laboratory of Radiation-Matter Interactions” courses, Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
1992-2003 Teacher, “Physics Laboratory III” course, Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
1983-1992 Teaching assistant, “Physics Laboratory III” and “General Physics II” courses, Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
Supervisor of 21 PhD students and numerous bachelor and master students. Responsible of more than 10 post-doc grants.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2013-today Team Leader of the Ferrara LHCb-RICH Group, LHCb experiment at CERN
2022-today Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, PHYDES experiment at LNL
2019-2021 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, DEMIURGOS experiment at LNL
2008-2017 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (12 INFN groups) of BaBar experiment at SLAC
2012 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (20 INFN groups) of the proposed experiment SuperB
2009-2012 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 INFN groups) of the FRANCIUM experiment, measurements of trapped francium atoms for fundamental physics studies at LNL
2003-2008 PI (together with A. J. S. Smith, Princeton University) of the new barrel muon detector for the BaBar experiment at SLAC, built by a collaboration of INFN groups (7 Institutions) and US groups (6 Institutions)
2000-2008 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 INFN groups) of the TRAPRAD experiment, trapping of francium atoms for fundamental physics studies at LNL
2001-2005 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (3 Units) of the European research network NIPNET (FP5): Novel Instrumentation for Precision Nuclear Experiments in Traps
2000-2002 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 Units) of research of national interest
co-financed by MURST (now called PRIN): "Cooling and trapping of radioactive atoms for fundamental symmetry tests "
1998-2005 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (3 INFN groups) of E835 experiment, charmonium spectroscopy at Fermilab
1992-1998 Member of the National Scientific Committee 1 (Particle Physics) of INFN as Ferrara representative
1990-1993 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, RF-GUN experiment
1988-1990 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, ECOOL experiment
1988-1990 Team Leader of the Ferrara Unit of the MPI research “Production of e.m. coherent waves from electron beams "
OTHER ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
2018-today Member of the CERN Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC)
2020 Chair of the Panel for the Review of the Technical Design Report of the HGTD detector, ATLAS experiment at CERN
2016, 2020 Chairman of the selection committee for PhD admission, Ferrara University, Italy
2016-2017 Member of the Ministerial Evaluation Panel for 'Progetti Premiali' of the Italian Public Research Institutions
2016-2017 Referee for the Spanish State Research Agency for the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" Programmes calls
2015 Member of the Jury of selection for "Laboratoires d'excellence" (LABEX), French National Research Agency
2013-2015 Member of the selection committee of professors for the Institut Universitaire de France
2009-2015 Member of the Panel PE2 "Fundamental Constituents of Matter" for the evaluation of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants (2009, 2011, 2013) and Starting Grants (2015)
2012 Member of the National Panel GEV 2 - Physical Sciences, for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research (VQR 2004-2010)
2011 Referee for the Spanish State Research Agency for the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" Programmes calls
2010-2011 Member of the Jury of selection for "Laboratoires d'excellence" (LABEX), French National Research Agency
2009-2010 Member of the working group 'Fundamental Interactions' for the Long Range Plan 2010 of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC )
2006-2014 Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee of "Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut" (KVI), an international laboratory devoted to the studies of fundamental physics and nuclear physics, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 Organizer and Director (with S.Atutov and L. Moi) of the Les Houches School of Physics "Trapped particles and fundamental physics", May 23-June 2, 2000
1997 Organizer and Chairman of the "3rd Euroconference on Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions", Ferrara, September 1997
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
2020-today DUNE experiment at Fermilab
2013-today LHCb experiment at the CERN LHC
2002-today BABAR experiment at SLAC
1985-2005 E760/E835 experiments at Fermilab
1985-1999 FENICE experiment at LNF
1983-1995 PS170 experiment at CERN
OUTREACH AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
I gave several outreach seminars in high school and promoted a number of outreach activities for high school students (courses on advanced physics topics, internships in laboratories, international masterclasses). I proposed and realized the master's degree course in Physics with a double degree with the University of Paris Sud and I am a member of the related “Bilateral Committee”. I proposed and realized the "Copernicus International Doctorate in Physics" between the University of Ferrara and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow and I am a member of the related “Joint Coordination Committee”.
AWARDS
1) L. Moi et al. “Detection of excited level population transfer in an MOT through the measurement of trapped atom number”, Meas. Sci. Tech., vol. 24 (2013), p. 015201. This paper has been awarded a prize by Institute Of Physics (IOP) Publishing (UK): Outstanding Paper Award 2013 - Optical and Laser-based Techniques
2) M. Guarise et al, “Experimental setup for the growth of solid crystals of inert gases for particle detection”, Rev. Sci. Instr., vol. 88 (2017), p. 113303. This paper has been highlighted by Scilights, which showcase the most interesting research across the physical sciences published in American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals (2017)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Bibliometric indicators (ISI-Web of Science, March 2022): - number of articles published on International journals: 1116 - number of citations received by these articles: 38629 - H-index: 102
1981 Graduated magna cum laude in Physics at University of Pisa
1981-1983 Fellowship at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1983 Fellowship at École Normale Supérieure, Paris
1983-1992 Assistant professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
1992-2007 Associate professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
2007-today Full professor of Experimental Physics, University of Ferrara
2021-today Director of the Ferrara Unit of the INFN, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics
2012-2018 Director of the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara
2010-2012 Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
2010-2018 Member of the Academic Senate, University of Ferrara
2004-2010 Chairman of the Council of the degree courses in Physics, University of Ferrara
1997-today Member of the Ph.D. Program Board in Physics, University of Ferrara
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
1983 Rydberg atoms
1983-2000 Measurements of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron in the time-like region
1986-2005 Charmonium spectroscopy
1984-1990 Electron cooling and related laser diagnostics
1988-1993 Ultracold gallium arsenide electron source
1993-2005 "White-light" laser cooling of ion beams and related diagnostics
2000-2020 Magneto-optical traps, trapping of francium atoms
2002-today Study of the B meson decays, test of the Standard Model of particle physics
2009-today Development of photodetectors and of particle detectors in rare gas solids
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2003-today Teacher, “Optics Laboratory” and “Laboratory of Radiation-Matter Interactions” courses, Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
1992-2003 Teacher, “Physics Laboratory III” course, Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
1983-1992 Teaching assistant, “Physics Laboratory III” and “General Physics II” courses, Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
Supervisor of 21 PhD students and numerous bachelor and master students. Responsible of more than 10 post-doc grants.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2013-today Team Leader of the Ferrara LHCb-RICH Group, LHCb experiment at CERN
2022-today Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, PHYDES experiment at LNL
2019-2021 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, DEMIURGOS experiment at LNL
2008-2017 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (12 INFN groups) of BaBar experiment at SLAC
2012 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (20 INFN groups) of the proposed experiment SuperB
2009-2012 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 INFN groups) of the FRANCIUM experiment, measurements of trapped francium atoms for fundamental physics studies at LNL
2003-2008 PI (together with A. J. S. Smith, Princeton University) of the new barrel muon detector for the BaBar experiment at SLAC, built by a collaboration of INFN groups (7 Institutions) and US groups (6 Institutions)
2000-2008 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 INFN groups) of the TRAPRAD experiment, trapping of francium atoms for fundamental physics studies at LNL
2001-2005 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (3 Units) of the European research network NIPNET (FP5): Novel Instrumentation for Precision Nuclear Experiments in Traps
2000-2002 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (4 Units) of research of national interest
co-financed by MURST (now called PRIN): "Cooling and trapping of radioactive atoms for fundamental symmetry tests "
1998-2005 Scientific coordinator of the Italian collaboration (3 INFN groups) of E835 experiment, charmonium spectroscopy at Fermilab
1992-1998 Member of the National Scientific Committee 1 (Particle Physics) of INFN as Ferrara representative
1990-1993 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, RF-GUN experiment
1988-1990 Team Leader of the INFN Ferrara group, ECOOL experiment
1988-1990 Team Leader of the Ferrara Unit of the MPI research “Production of e.m. coherent waves from electron beams "
OTHER ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
2018-today Member of the CERN Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC)
2020 Chair of the Panel for the Review of the Technical Design Report of the HGTD detector, ATLAS experiment at CERN
2016, 2020 Chairman of the selection committee for PhD admission, Ferrara University, Italy
2016-2017 Member of the Ministerial Evaluation Panel for 'Progetti Premiali' of the Italian Public Research Institutions
2016-2017 Referee for the Spanish State Research Agency for the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" Programmes calls
2015 Member of the Jury of selection for "Laboratoires d'excellence" (LABEX), French National Research Agency
2013-2015 Member of the selection committee of professors for the Institut Universitaire de France
2009-2015 Member of the Panel PE2 "Fundamental Constituents of Matter" for the evaluation of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants (2009, 2011, 2013) and Starting Grants (2015)
2012 Member of the National Panel GEV 2 - Physical Sciences, for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research (VQR 2004-2010)
2011 Referee for the Spanish State Research Agency for the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" Programmes calls
2010-2011 Member of the Jury of selection for "Laboratoires d'excellence" (LABEX), French National Research Agency
2009-2010 Member of the working group 'Fundamental Interactions' for the Long Range Plan 2010 of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC )
2006-2014 Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee of "Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut" (KVI), an international laboratory devoted to the studies of fundamental physics and nuclear physics, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 Organizer and Director (with S.Atutov and L. Moi) of the Les Houches School of Physics "Trapped particles and fundamental physics", May 23-June 2, 2000
1997 Organizer and Chairman of the "3rd Euroconference on Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions", Ferrara, September 1997
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
2020-today DUNE experiment at Fermilab
2013-today LHCb experiment at the CERN LHC
2002-today BABAR experiment at SLAC
1985-2005 E760/E835 experiments at Fermilab
1985-1999 FENICE experiment at LNF
1983-1995 PS170 experiment at CERN
OUTREACH AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
I gave several outreach seminars in high school and promoted a number of outreach activities for high school students (courses on advanced physics topics, internships in laboratories, international masterclasses). I proposed and realized the master's degree course in Physics with a double degree with the University of Paris Sud and I am a member of the related “Bilateral Committee”. I proposed and realized the "Copernicus International Doctorate in Physics" between the University of Ferrara and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow and I am a member of the related “Joint Coordination Committee”.
AWARDS
1) L. Moi et al. “Detection of excited level population transfer in an MOT through the measurement of trapped atom number”, Meas. Sci. Tech., vol. 24 (2013), p. 015201. This paper has been awarded a prize by Institute Of Physics (IOP) Publishing (UK): Outstanding Paper Award 2013 - Optical and Laser-based Techniques
2) M. Guarise et al, “Experimental setup for the growth of solid crystals of inert gases for particle detection”, Rev. Sci. Instr., vol. 88 (2017), p. 113303. This paper has been highlighted by Scilights, which showcase the most interesting research across the physical sciences published in American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals (2017)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Bibliometric indicators (ISI-Web of Science, March 2022): - number of articles published on International journals: 1116 - number of citations received by these articles: 38629 - H-index: 102
