RESEARCH PROFILE (Scopus)
- Author of 1503 papers on HEP and Computing topics. Total citations: 94,317. h-index: 123
ACADEMIC
- 2019-current: Full Professor of Experimental Physics, FIS/01, University of Bologna
- 2014-2019: Associate Professor of Experimental Physics, FIS/01, University of Bologna
- 2008-2014: University Researcher in Experimental Physics, FIS/01, University of Bologna
- 2003: Ph.D in Particle Physics at University of Bologna, “A study of Muon Selection Algorithms for the CMS Level-1 and High-Level Trigger”, supervisor Prof. A. Rossi. Cum laude
- 2001: Master in Science Communication, SISSA, Trieste, “New communication strategies at CERN in the LHC era”
- 1997: Post-graduate course in Advanced Physics, University of Bologna
- 1997: Degree in Experimental Particle Physics at University of Bologna, “Measurements of charged particle multiplicity with the OPAL detector at LEP”, supervisor Prof. G. Giacomelli. 110/110 cum laude
CONTRACTS
- 2008: permanent staff position as University Researcher at University of Bologna
- 2008: INFN Tecnology IC position (“Tecnologo”, n.12920/2008), then refused in favour of RU
- 2008: INFN Technology Researcher LD (“articolo 23”), INFN-CNAF, “Deployment and Operations of the Grid-compliant LHC and CMS software stack at a T1”
- 2006-2007: Science&Technology research grant, INFN-CNAF, “Support to HEP experiments in using T1 and Grid resources”
- 2004-2005: Science&Technology research grant, INFN-CNAF, “Deployment/Operations of LHC experiments software on a prototype T1”
- 2003: Technology grant at INFN-CNAF, “Design, certification, deployment, management of application software for INFN experiments at the T1”
- 2001-2002: University grant for Young Researchers, “Development of systems to manage geographically distributed computing resources”
- 1998-2000: Technology INFN grant, “Study of multi-hadronic states in e+e- collisions in the OPAL at LEP”
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES and MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCES
Computing:
- 2022 - current: Coordinator/manager of the "Data Science and Computation" PhD program
- 2023 - current: PNRR "PE01 - FAIR Future Artificial Intelligence - Spoke 8 (Pervasive AI) - 1 Research" WP8 co-manager
- 2022: Participation to EU project Skills4EOSC (TF on Upskilling countries, incl. AI technologies and training)
- 2022 - current: PNRR “National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing” - Scientific coordinator for UniBO in Spoke 2
- 2022 - current: PNRR “National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing” - Coordination/management of UniBO involvement in Spoke 1, Spoke 2, Spoke 10
- 2022 - current: “Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Alma-AI) in Univ. Bologna - Executive scientific representative of the “AI and Hard Sciences” research unit
- 2021 - current: President of DIFA Research Committee and DIFA Research Delegate towards the Rectorate
- 2018-2024: Co-coordinator of the CMS participation to the WLCG Grid Deployment Board (GDB)
- 2018-2020: Chair of the CMS Resource Board (CRB) (steering of the use of computing resources in >50 computing centres for CMS)
- 2012-2013: deputy CMS Computing Coordinator role: extended for 2 more years
- 2015-2017: Project Manager - CMS Software/Computing Coordinator. “Level-1” task in the CMS Computing management. Duration: 2 years.
- 2014-2015: Responsible for CMS Software/Computing R&D activities
- 2011-2012: chair of the WLCG Technology Evolution Group (TEG) on Storage Management
- 2010-now: Member of the CMS Management Board and the CMS Executive Board
- 2010-2011: deputy CMS Computing Coordinator (Level-1 task in CMS Management). Work based at CERN. Frequent travels in EU, US, Asia
- 2008-now: Member of the CMS ECoM (Evolution of Computing Model) task force
- 2008, 2009: Coordination of CMS participation to the CCRC’08 and STEP’09 computing challenges
- 2007-2009: Coordinator of “CMS Computing Facilities and Infrastructure Operations” project (Level-2 task in CMS Management). Work based in Italy and CERN
- 2009-2010: Design of procedures for central CMS Computing shifts (used by a distributed team of 150 shifters in 3 continents)
- 2009: Contribution to design and set-up of a “CMS Centre” in Bologna, a facility for remote Computing shifts operations
- 2007-2010: Design/operations of the CMS tests to commission the StoRM/GPFS/TSM storage system now in production at INFN-CNAF T1
- 2004-2009: Participation to design and operation of all WLCG and CMS-specific Computing challenges
- 2004-2006: Coordinator of Data Transfer operations with CMS PhEDEx at INFN
- 2004-2007: Participation to the European EGEE project, SA1 WP: support to CMS distributed analysis and data access. Activity as reviewer/moderator of EGEE-II deliverables
- 2004-2006: Software Developer in the CMS PhEDEx Data Management project
- 2003-2007: CMS contact at INFN-CNAF T1
- 2002 - present: Member of the national INFN-GRID project (WP experiments workflows, WP data management)
- 2001 - present: Member of the international Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration
- 2000 - present: Member of the international CMS experiment at CERN (LHC accelerator)
Physics, Detector and Simulations:
- 2010-now: Study of fully-hadronic top decays in pp collisions with CMS at LHC
- 1996-2002: Study of multi-hadronic final states of e+e- collisions with OPAL at LEP
- 2001-2003: INFN Monte Carlo production operations
- 2000-2003: High Level Trigger algorithms tuning to maximize Higgs discovery potential
- 2000-2003: Software Developer, Level-1 Trigger simulation for CMS DT muon chambers
- 1998-2000: Technical responsibility for OPAL Hadron Calorimeter
