Nicola Semprini Cesari

Full Professor of General Physics at the University of Bologna, he carries out his research activity in the field of Elementary Particle Physics.

Currently a member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN in Geneva, he is co-author of over 1100 publications in international journals (Scopus h-index = 118, Google Scolar h-index = 208).

Winner of the "Pietro Bassi" Prize of the Italian Physical Society for "Contributions to meson spectroscopy" and of the 2013 HEPP Prize of the European Physical Society (High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society) as a member of the collaboration ATLAS for the discovery of the Higgs boson.
He was a member of the Board of the Alma Mater Foundation, Senator of Alma Mater and Director of the "Augusto Righi" Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2015 to 2021.
He recently designed and coordinated the creation of "Fisica Experience", an innovative museum on the concepts of space and time of the University Museum System.