Studies: graduated in Physics in 1990; phD
in 1994.
Positions: post doc from 1994 to 1995, from 1995 to 2005, researcher for the Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (permanent position); from 2005 to
2014, Associated Professor in experimental Physics at the
Bologna University, Engeneering faculty; since 2014 he is Full
Professor in experimental Physics at the Bologna University.
Roles and charges: during his research activity, prof. Villa had
resposability and coordination roles, he had worked directly and
actively in the analyses of experimental data of primary importance
and he had played role of support and direction in other
analyses.
More in detail, he has been: run coordinator and responsable for
analyses in the OBELIX collaboration; convener for two analysis
groups in Hera-B; member of the editorial board of Hera-B; local
responsable for the Slim5 and VIPIX collaboration, convener of the
"Trigger and DAQ" work package. Local responsable for the INFN
flagship project Super-B.
Local resposible of the PRIN2007 project "Pixel systems for charge
particles slim trackers" (Italian ministery funded projects).
Local resposible of the PRIN2009 project "Digital readout
architectures of pixel chips and online tracking systems." (Italian
ministery funded projects).
Elected member of the permanent commission on legal and
administrative problems of the Engeneering faculty
(2007-2010).
Member of the Bologna University Research Observatory for the
Physical science group (2010-2013).
Member of the University Research Evaluation Commission (CVRA) for
the Physical science group (2014-2016). Member of the Quality
Assurance Group for Research (PQA-RIC, Presidio Qualità d'Ateneo,
componente Ricerca, from 2013), in which he has a coordinator role.
Elected member of the Research Commission in the Physics and
Astronomy department (from 2012).
Member of the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) commission for the 02/A1 group. The commisson evaluates and assesses the scientific qualification of applying candidates for a future enrollment in italian universities.
Reviewer of ERC IDEAS projects.
Member or president in several commissions for recruitment of Associate Professors, RTDb, INFN Technologists, Post-docs, PhD students and tutors. Member or president in commissions devoted to the final evaluation of PhD students (UniBO, UniNA, UniFE).
Currently he has two courses at the School of Engeneering and
Architecture.
Scientific activity: prof. Villa has performed fundamental physics
reserches in several areas of nuclear and sub-nuclear physics in
large international collaborations (Obelix, Hera-B, LHC-B, Atlas).
In experiments with antinucleons, he studied light meson
spectroscopy in search for new and/or resonant states and he
measured the branching fraction of two body decays. In p-A
interactions (Hera-B), he studied charmonium states and he measured
production cross sections of hadrons with open or hidden beauty. He
is now involved in the design and production of a new type of
luminosity monitor for the ATLAS experiment and, in the
microelectronic field, he is involved in the design and realization
of new types of pixel matrices to be used in the next generation of
particle experiments.
Moreover he had performed phenomenological studies in different
fields: he studied the solar neutrino problem, the CP symmetry
violation (with a coomprehensive study of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa) and the theoretical charmonium cross
sections at different energies. He has now more than 600 scientific
papers published on referred journals.
