Luisa Cifarelli

Luisa Cifarelli, formerly Full Professor of Experimental Physics, is Emeritus Professor at the University of Bologna.

She carried out her research in very high energy subnuclear physics at major European laboratories such as CERN, Geneva, and also in astroparticle physics at INFN LNGS, Gran Sasso.

She has served in several councils, committees and commissions, she has been a member of the CERN Council, of the INFN Board of Directors, of the Scientific Council of CNRS and of JINR. She has been President of the Italian national research institute Centro Fermi, of the European Physical Society (EPS) and of the Italian Physical Society (SIF). 

She is Fellow and International Councillor of the American Physical Society (APS). She has been Chair of the APS Forum on International Physics and a member of the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs.

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of Centro Majorana (EMFCSC) and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is a “Benedictine Academician” of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, she has been a member of the Governing Board of the Accademia and is currently a member of the Scientific Committee.