Personal information:
Surname: Alici
First Name: Andrea
Date of birth: 9th March 1974
Birthplace: Rimini
Nationality: Italian
Address: Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Email: andrea.alici3@unibo.it
Career:
- 13th March 2001: Bachelor's degree in Physics at the Bologna University, presenting the thesis "Studio e sviluppo di rivelatori a piani resistivi multigap per il Time of Flight dell’esperimento ALICE".
- 8th July 2005: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Physics at the Bologna University, presenting the thesis "Realizzazione dei sistemi di qualità nella costruzione dei rivelatori basati sulle MRPC (Multigap Resistite Plate Chambers) per il sistema di Tempo di Volo (TOF) dell’esperimento ALICE ad LHC".
- 2004: Best Contribution to the “Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics” Section at the XC National Conference of the Italian Physical Society (SIF)
- 2005 - 2009: five-year Post-Doc fellowship at the Bologna University.
- 2007: Award of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) for Scientific Activities in Physics
- 2010: INFN founded CERN Associate (SimilFellow) with title "Analisi delle interazioni protoneprotone a LHC con identificazione delle particelle cariche tramite il rivelatore TOF e la PID combinata di ALICE".
- 2010 - 2013: "Junior Grant" at the Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E. Fermi".
- 2014 - 2016: fellowship at the Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E. Fermi".
- 2015 - 2016: "Project Associate" at CERN
- 28th Oct 2016: researcher at the Physics Department of the Bologna University
Scientific activity:
From 1999 I carry out my research activities playing a leading role in the Bologna ALICE-TOF group, that is responsible for the construction of the Time Of Flight System (TOF) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The ALICE project is one of the most challenging experiment in the high-energy physics, involving an international collaboration of more than 1200 physicists, engineers and technicians from all around the world. The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC is one of the largest experiments in the world devoted to research in the physics of matter at an infinitely small scale.
I'm an active member of the ALICE Collaboration; in August 2012 I was responsible, as ALICE Period Run Coordinator, for the proper functioning and quality of data taken throughout the experiment, coordination and planning activities of all detectors and central services. I was the System Run Coordinator of the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector, which is a prominent part of ALICE; the TOF exploits the innovative Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) technology, a device able to detect a crossing charged particle with an intrinsic time resolution better then a few hundredths of a billionth of a second and which is gradually finding application also in other branches of science. I'm also a member of the ALICE Technical Board, the ALICE contact person at the LHC Background Study group (LBS) and at the LHC Machine Protection Panel (MPP) and the convener of the ALICE PWG-PP Run Condition working group.
During my entire research activity I have dealt with different aspects, from hardware to software. I took part in the development, construction and installation of the whole TOF detector. I took part in the development of the first prototypes of MRPC ever built in Italy. I coordinated and supervised the production teams and I had the responsibility of the quality control tests developing, as TOF Detector Control System (DCS) expert, projects and applications in LabVIEW and in WinCC environments to control and monitor all the TOF operational parameters.
Form 2016 to 2017 I was the System Run Coordinator of the silicon microvertex detector (Inner Tracking System, ITS) of ALICE; I had full responsibility for the correct operation and the quality of the data collected by the ITS detector, I coordinated all maintenance activities and hardware and software developments on the system.
Since 2012 I'm involved in the analysis of heavy-quark production at LHC. In particular, I'm actively working on the study of the Λc charmed baryon in the proton + K0S decay channel in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.
Responsabilities within the ALICE-TOF group:
- Responsible and supervisor of the ALICE-TOF MRPC mass production (2005 – 2006).
- Responsible and supervisor of the quality assurance tests for the ALICE-TOF MRPC mass production (2005 – 2006).
- Responsible and supervisor of the ALICE-TOF SuperModules assembly and installation at CERN (2006 – 2007).
- Responsible and supervisor of the quality assurance tests for the ALICE-TOF SuperModules assembly and installation at CERN (2006 – 2007).
- Responsible of the commissioning of the ALICE-TOF detector at CERN (2008).
Responsabilities within the ALICE Collaboration:
- ALICE Period Run Coordinator (August 2012), responsible for the proper functioning and quality of data taken throughout the experiment, coordination and planning activities of all detectors and central services.
- ALICE contact at the LHC Background Study Group (LBS).
- ALICE contact person at the SPS and LHC Machine Protection Panel (MPP).
- Convener of the working group ALICE PWG-PP Run Conditions.
- System Run Coordinator (SRC) and DCS expert of the ALICE-TOF detector.
- System Run Coordinator (SRC) and DCS expert of the ALICE-ITS detector.
- Member of the ALICE Technical Board.
