Cristian Massimi is an associate professor at the university of Bologna (Italy). His research interests focus on experimental nuclear physics. Since 2004 he is a Fellow of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and he participated to experiments at the CERN (Switzerland) and EC-JRC-Geel (Belgium) international laboratories. He has a special interest in neutron physics and nuclear data for science (nuclear astrophysics) and technology.
Education
Degree in Physics (Master of Science) in 2005 at the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna. Where he attained the PhD in Physics in 2009. He spent part of his PhD as a trainee at the EC-JRC-Geel laboratory.
Academia
He received an INFN scholarship in 2005. After receiving the PhD degree he was a post-doc research fellow at the university of Bologna for 4 years. In the period 2014-207 he had a 3-year contract as fixed-term (junior) researcher at the University of Bologna. One-year contract as post-doc in 2018 and since December 2018 he was senior researcher in this university for three years. In December 2021 Cristian Massimi was promoted to the role of associate professor.
Teaching activity
In addition to istitutional teaching: Electromagnetism, Physics of Energy, Laboratory of electromagnetism and optics, and Nuclear Physics; he is involved in a professional master program in radiation and radioprotection, as weel as an specialization training in Medical Physics.
Supervisor and Co-supervisor of several bachelor and master theses as well as PhD theses.
Research activity
The research activities of Dr. Cristian Massimi are closely related to the research carried out within the INFN project n_TOF (a CERN experiment with about 130 researchers from 30 international research institutes). He was coordinator of the italian group participating on this project. He is spokesperson of 7 CERN experiments carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN, and PI of 2 experiments at EC-JRC-Geel.
Scientific visitor at EC-JRC-IRMM in the period August - December 2008.
Referee of the international journal The European Physical Journal A, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Nuclear Physics A, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Annuals of Nuclear Energy.
He attended several international conferences with invited talks and regular contributions.
260 publications, 3000 citations, H-index = 30 (April 2024).
Awards
2016 - Distinguished Referee EPJ
2010 - Prize "Ettore Pancini" of the Italian Physical Society: grant to a young researcher who has made a significant achievement in its experimental research in Nuclear or Subnuclear physics.
2009 - Special mention for the PhD Thesis to the “Giampietro Puppi” Award for young researchers, Second Edition. Prize sponsored by “Fondazione Marino Golinelli”.
2008 - Mention for the Best Communication 2009 to XCV National Congress of the Italian Physical Society.
Other activities
Creator of the newsletter of Nuclear Astrophysics GIANTS.
Organizer and Co-organizer of national (GIANTS-IX) and international (EuNPC18) conferences, advanced schools (Neutron Resonance Analysis School) and collaboration meetings.
