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Alessandro De Angelis: Background
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Alessandro De Angelis, professor of physics at the
faculty of Sciences of the University of Udine and at the Instituto
Superior Técnico of Lisboa, is Deputy
Chairman (Chairman elected, starting November 2012), Scientific Coordinator and
Italian Spokesperson of the Magic gamma-ray telescope in La Palma (Canary
Islands), and member of the collaboration managing the Fermi gamma-ray
satellite (formerly known as Glast) from NASA. His
main interests are high-energy particle astrophysics and fundamental physics
with accelerators. During the recent years, he has been authoring and
co-authoring publications mostly on axions and new
particles (contributing to dark matter) detectable with Cherenkov telescopes,
and on properties of the intergalactic medium; in the ‘90s, a series of
articles mostly on non-perturbative QCD and advanced
computing techniques. He is Director of the PhD School in Mathematics and
Physics of the University of Udine.
After classical high-school, he studied General Physics at the University of Padova, where he started his professional activity in the
group lead by Marcello Cresti. His first years of
research, besides a period spent in Rome as technical officer at the
Terrestrial Weapons headquarters and visiting assistant at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, were devoted to the
study of the lifetimes of charged particles with bubble-chamber detectors and
to the preparation of the Delphi experiment at the CERN Lep
electron-positron collider.
From 1993 to 1999 he was at CERN, Geneva, in the group of Ugo
Amaldi, as research associate and then staff member,
convenor of the Delphi QCD group and responsible of the software for physics
analysis of Delphi. He coordinated the software for the INFN project on
Artificial Neural Networks, Annetthe.
After coming back to Italy in 1999, he moved to astroparticle
physics, participating to the projects Glast/Fermi
and Magic (detection of gamma rays from 30 MeV to a
few TeV with satellite and ground-based
respectively), and building in Udine a group giving a primary contribution to
the simulation, to the event display, and to data analysis end event
classification techniques. He has served as scientific coordinator of the Magic
telescope between 2005 and 2007, and then since 2012.
He is author or co-author of more than 600 scientific publications, referee for
leading scientific journals, and organizer of international conferences in the
fields of particle physics and astrophysics. H-index
(according to ISI) of 48. According to a recent analysis of Essential
Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, the work by De Angelis entered the top 1% of
researchers publishing in the field of Space Science over the past decade with
the highest citation count.
Member of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto
Nazionale di AstroFisica, Consorzio
Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale and Società Italiana di Fisica; coordinator of European exchange projects with Lisbon,
Helsinki, Paris, Lund,
Madrid; guest professor in Paris VI, Max-Planck
for Physics in Munich, University of Tokyo. Knowledge of Italian, French, English and Portuguese.
Courses lectured during the recent years: Electricity and Magnetism, Quantum
Physics, Quantum ChromoDynamics, Astroparticle
Physics, High Energy Physics.