Mauro Villa

Curriculum Vitae

Studies: graduated in Physics with 110/110 cum laude in 1990; phD in 1994 and then he won a post-doc bourse.

Position: from 1995 to 2005, he was a researcher for the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (permanent position); since 2005 up to now he is Associated professor in experimental Physics at the Bologna University, Engeneering faculty.

Roles and charges: during his research activity, prof. Villa had resposability and coordination roles, he had worked directly and actively in the analyses of experimental data of primary importance and he had played role of support and direction in other analyses.
More in detail, he has been: run coordinator and responsable for analyses in the OBELIX collaboration; conveneer for two analysis groups in Hera-B; member of the editorial board of Hera-B; local responsable for the Slim5 and VIPIX collaboration, conveneer of the "Trigger and DAQ" work package. Local responsable for the INFN flagship project Super-B.
Local resposible of the PRIN2007 project "Pixel systems for charge particles slim trackers" (Italian ministery funded projects).
Local resposible of the PRIN2009 project "Digital readout architectures of pixel chips and online tracking systems." (Italian ministery funded projects).
Elected member of the permanent commission on legal and administrative problems of the Engeneering faculty (2007-2010).
Member of the Bologna University Research Observatory for the Physical science group (2010-).
Currently he has two courses at the Engeneering faculty.

Scientific activity: prof. Villa has performed fundamental physics reserches in several areas of nuclear and sub-nuclear physics in large international collaborations (Obelix, Hera-B, LHC-B, Atlas). In experiments with antinucleons, he studied light meson spectroscopy in search for new and/or resonant states and he measured the branching fraction of two body decays. In p-A interactions (Hera-B), he studied charmonium states and he measured production cross sections of hadrons with open or hidden beauty. He is now involved in the design and production of a new type of luminosity monitor for the ATLAS experiment and, in the microelectronic field, he is involved in the design and realization of new types of pixel matrices to be used in the next generation of particle experiments.
Moreover he had performed phenomenological studies in different fields: he studied the solar neutrino problem, the CP symmetry violation (with a coomprehensive study of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa) and the theoretical charmonium cross sections at different energies. He has now more than 200 scientific papers published on referred journals.