Stefano De Castro was born in Bologna the 14th of august 1962 ;
he graduated in physics at the university of Bologna in march 1986
under the guide of professors Antonio Bertin and Antonio Vitale .
From 1987 until 1989 dr. De Castro went through the Ph. D.
activities at the institute of physics of the university of Bologna
, attaining the final title in 1990 . Since march 1990 , after
resulting winner of a concourse for a researcher job in the
'experimental physics' disciplinar sector , dr. De Castro is in
service at the faculty of engineering of the university of Bologna
, where he carries out his didactic functions . Five consecutive
years long dr. De Castro has been entrusted for a general physics
course of the faculty of engineering of the university of Bologna
.
The research activity of dr. De Castro has up to now concerned
several domains of nuclear and subnuclear physics . In the domains
of muon physics and low energy weak interaction physics dr. De
Castro undertook phenomenological studies about the relevance in
several
contexts , particularly in astrophysics , of the form factors of
the weak nucleonic currents and about the consequences of their
experimental consequences of their experimental uncertainties on
several observational predictions . Dr. De Castro has also been
concerned with muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion , in particular with
the problem of the energy cost of muon production , which is
crucial in order to evaluate the effectiveness of muon-catalyzed
fusion for practical purposes . With regard to this topic dr. De
Castro undertook both phenomenological and experimental studies ,
the last ones at the CERN in Geneva .
Dr. De Castro also took part to the OBELIX experiment at the
LEAR ( Low Energy Antiproton Ring ) of the CERN . In relation to
this experiment dr. De Castro undertook studies on the dynamics of
low energy nucleon-antinucleon annihilation and on meson
spectroscopy , particularly in the research of 'exotic' mesons ,
contributing to the development of a new analysis method for the
determination of the parameters of hadronic resonances and to the
attainment of several remarkable results .
Dr. De Castro took then part to the HERA-B experiment at the
DESY laboratory in Hamburg , contributing to the attainment of
significative results concerning the production of heavy quarks in
high energy hadronic interactions .
Dr. De Castro is currently engaged in the ATLAS experiment at
the LHC ( Large Hadron Collider ) of the CERN and he carries out
phenomenological studies about the research of characteristic
effects of physics beyond the standard model of subnuclear
particles and interactions .
