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Gian Piero Siroli

Assistant professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"

Academic discipline: PHYS-01/A Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions and Applications

Curriculum vitae

Gian Piero Siroli, physicist, working in the field of experimental Subnuclear Particle Physics, is researcher at the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Bologna (UNIBO). He is author of many papers on this topic on many international journals.

GPS teaching activities include courses in basic electronics and computer/network security, including political, social, and military aspects.

From 2000 to 2008 he taught a course on "Information Technologies and International Security" at the Computer Science Dept. University of Pisa; he wrote papers and gives periodic seminars on this topic. Currently he teaches a course on "Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare" at the Political Science Dept. UNIBO. GPS is also active in science communications, on newspapers and TV related activities.

He has been "Faculty Research Assistant" at the Physics and Astronomy Dept. University of Maryland, College Park (USA), "Fellow" at National Research Council (CNR, Italy), "Scientific Associate" at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), former member of INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Computing Commission, represents INFN in international commissions and working groups coordinating High Energy Physics computing activities.

In 1999 and 2008 GPS participated at meetings on "Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security", organized by United Nations in Geneva.

He has been member of the Italian working group on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection.

GPS is active within the "Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs" (peace Nobel prize 1995) and participated at various Pugwash meetings on the topic of disarmament, contributing in particular in the domain of cyber-security; he represents Pugwash in the "Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies” of United Nations.

GPS is also member of USPID (Unione Scienziati per Il Disarmo), ISODARCO (International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, represents UNIBO in RUniPace (Universities for Peace Network). He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Computational Social Science center of UNIBO and IRIAD Review (Istituto Ricerche Internazionali Archivio Disarmo).

Gian Piero Siroli is currently Computer Security Officer of the large international CMS collaboration at CERN in Geneva, which has intercontinental computing infrastructure and data transmission networks with global security issues.

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