Name: Antonio Zoccoli
Year of Birth: 1961
Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy
Academic Curriculum:
1980-1985 University Studies in Physics at the University of Bologna
December 1985 Diploma in experimental particle physics
1986-1988 Fellowship from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
1988-1992 Researcher with permanent position at INFN
1992-2003 Associate Professor in Physics at the University di Bologna
2003-Now Full Professor in Physics at the University of Bologna
2006-2011 Director of the INFN section of Bologna
2008-2019 President of Fondazione Giuseppe Occhialini (Fossombrone-Italy)
2012-2019 Member of the INFN Executive Board
2013-2014 and 2016-2017 Vice-President of INFN
2016-Now Member of the Board of Directors of the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
2019-Now President of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Scientific Activity:
1986-1988 Member of the Muon Catalysed Fusion Collaboration at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK)
1988-1997 Member of the OBELIX Collaboration at LEAR (CERN).
Goal of the experiment: study of exotic states predicted by the QCD theory, like glueballs, hybrids, etc.
Run coordinator of the experiment for many diffferent data taking. Responsible of different analysis working Groups.
1997-2005 Member of the HERA-B Collaboration at HERA (DESY).
Project leader and Physics Coordinator (2000-2005) of the international HERA-B collaboration at the HERA accelerator (ca. 330 members, 32 participating institutes from 13 countries, volume of investment ca. 30M€). Goal of the experiment: study of the production and decay of heavy quarks in hadronic interactions.
Participation in the data taking of the HERA-B experiment and the physics analysis of the data. Group leader of the Bologna group participating in the HERA-B experiment (ca. 20 members).
2005-Now Member of the ATLAS Collaboration at LHC (CERN).
Goal of the experiment: search of the Higgs Boson, Supersymmetries, etc.
Group leader of the Bologna group participating in the ATLAS experiment (ca. 30 members).
Other titles:
- Physics Coordinator of theHERA-B experiment at DESY in Hamburg
- INFN National Coordinatorof the HERA-B experiment
- Regular referee for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D (2000 – now).
- Regular referee for the MIUR-COFN (Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca, Italy, 1998 – now).
- Italian representative in the ECFA Committee (European Committee for Future Accelerators)
- Alternate of the Italian representative in the H2020 Program Committee on Research Infrastructures
- Italian Representative in ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures), panel PSE (physics, science and engineering)
- Italian Representative in the CERN RRB (Research Review Board)
- Regular referee for the INFN Committee on subnuclear physics
- Member of different INFN and University Committee
- Responsible of many research grants
- Winner of the Pietro Bassi Award (2002) of the Italian Physical Society (SIF)
- Winner of the HEPP 2013 Award (High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society), together with the ATLAS and CMS collaborations , for the discovery of the Higgs Boson
- Author of more than 700 scientific and technical publications on international journals. More than 20 presentations and invited talks at National and International conferences. H-Index = 59 according to SCOPUS database (may 2017).
