EDUCATION

1996      PhD in Physics – University of Torino (Italy). Thesis: Charm production in electroweak deep inelastic scattering processes: theory and phenomenology. Advisors: Proff. V. Barone and E. Predazzi

1993      Master Degree in Physics (summa cum laude and honors), University of Torino (Italy). Thesis: Standard Model: radiative corrections in Γ(Z0 → ff) and Γ (Z0 → ff γ). Advisor: Prof. G. Passarino

CURRENT POSITION

2022 – today   Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Univ. Cagliari

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2014 – 2022  Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Univ. Cagliari

2002 – 2014  Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Univ. Cagliari

1999 – 2002  Post-Doc Researcher – Department of Physics, Univ. Cagliari

1996 – 1998   Post-Doc Researcher – Department of Theoretical Physics, Un. of Heidelberg (Germany)          

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

2022 – today  Director of the PhD School in Physics, University of Cagliari, (Italy)

2021 – today  Member of the Physics Department Council, University of Cagliari (Italy)

2019 – today  Scientific Coordinator of the Cagliari INFN Theory Group

2019 – today  Member of the INFN National Scientific Theory Committee (CSN4)

2018 – 2022   Deputy Coordinator of the PhD School in Physics, University of Cagliari (Italy)

2014 – today  Member of the Physics Degree Council, University of Cagliari (Italy)

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2020 – today  Internal Referee for the INFN National Scientific Theory Committee

2018 – 2020   Member of the Selection Board for post-doctoral positions (INFN, Cagliari)

2017 – today  Member of the Research Committee, Physics Department, University of Cagliari

2011 – today  Member of the Expert Peer Reviewer Panel for Italian Scientific Evaluation

Reviewer for Advances in High Energy Physics, European Physical Journal A&C, Journal of High Energy Physics, Modern Physics Letters A, Physica A, Physics Letters B, Physical Review C&D, Physical Review Letters

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

4 Post-docs, 3 PhD, 10 Master and more than 20 Diploma Students in Physics, Univ. of Cagliari

TEACHING, HIGH-FORMATION AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES  

- More than 30 one-semester courses, Degrees in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biotechnology, Master Degree in Physics: Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Quantum Field Theory

2017 – today  Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Asimov Award" for Educational Scientific Publishing, Italy, Italy

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (last 5 years)

Sept. 2022     Convener of the Spin Session for the “Diffraction and Low-x 2022” International Workshop, Cosenza (Italy)

Sept. 2021     Chair of the 2nd Sardinian Workshop on Spin (Sar WorS 2021), Cagliari (Italy)

Dec. 2020      Member of the LOC for Transversity 2022, Pavia (Italy) 

July 2019       Chair of the 1st Sardinian Workshop on Spin (Sar WorS 2019), Cagliari, (Italy)

Aug. 2018      Convener of the Spin Session for the “Diffraction and Low-x 2018” International Workshop, Reggio Calabria (Italy)

Dec. 2017      Member of the LOC for Transversity 2017, Frascati (Italy)

PARTICIPATION/LEADERSHIP IN (INTER)NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

2022 – today  Participant, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, "Matter-antimatter asymmetry and polarisation in strange hadrons at LHCb", University odf Cagliari (Italy)

2020 – 2022   Participant, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, “Proton tomography at the LHC”, University of Cagliari (Italy)

2022              Co-proponet of a feasibilty study on Quarkonium at HL-LHC

2018 – 2020   PI, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, “Quarkonium Production at LHC energies”, University of Cagliari (Italy)

2020              Co-proponent of "Physics study of the gluon content of the proton and deuterium at NICA SPD"

2018              Co-proponent of “The LHCSpin Project”, presented for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU 2020)

2018 – today  Scientific Coordinator of the Cagliari unit for the Working Package “TMD-Next” within the European Project “Strong-2020” (funded 2019)

2017 – today  Member of the Theory Advisory Group of the PANDA experiment at GSI, Germany

2016 – today  Member of the EIC User Group (Electron Ion Collider Project), USA and co-author of the EIC Yellow report

2015 – today  Member of the SoLID Collaboration at Jefferson Lab, USA

2004 – 2014   Participant, European Integrated Infrastructure Activity of the EC FP6 & FP7 programmes HadronPhysics (HP2, HP3)  “Study of Strongly Interacting Matter”

2009 – 2011   Co-PI, Project funded by University of Cagliari (start-up young researchers) "String and Gauge theory duality: formal aspects and phenomenological implications”

2005 –  today Member of the PAX Collaboration http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0505054

2014 – today Participant, INFN research project NINPHA “National INitiative on Physics of HAdrons”

Main interests

Hadron physics in perturbative QCD, with special attention to spin and polarisation effects in high-energy processes; Three-dimensional structure of the nucleon

Most important scientific achievements:

- First ever extraction of the transversity distribution from a global fit of data on azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and e+e- processes within a Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) approach;

- Systematic phenomenological analysis within a TMD approach of semi-inclusive processes and extraction of important TMD distributions;

- Extension of the TMD scheme to inclusive processes in pp collisions;

- First extraction of the gluon Sivers function from transverse single-spin asymmetries in pp collisions;

- Study of the universality of the Collins function in pp→ π jet X;  

- Study of of initial- and final-state interactions in pion, photon, pion-jet, charmonium and open charm production in pp collisions and their role in the extraction of the quark and gluon Sivers functions;

- First TMD global analysis at NNLL accuracy of pT spectra in DY processes and Z production;

- Study of gluon TMDs in quarkonium production in lepton-proton processes at the EIC.

Scientific Track records (Inspires): list of papers

- Co-author of 60 publications (6 as invited review papers) in international referred journals

- Author/Co-author of more than 50 national/international conference proceedings

- Presenter of about 50 talks at (inter)national conferences/workshops (around 30 as invited speaker)

- Co-author of 4 physics feasibility studies

- Co-editor, Proceedings of “Transversity 2014” (2014)

- Co-editor, Proceedings of “Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum” (2004)

INVITED presentations at (inter)national Conferences/Schools (last 5 years)

“Quasi-real photon contribution to AN in ?p → π X in a TMD approach"; International Workshop QCD Evolution 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May-June 2016

“Spin effects in QCD and 3D nucleon structure”; Terzo Incontro Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN2016, Frascati, Italy, Nov. 2016 [plenary]

“TMDs from hard scattering processes”; International Workshop on 3D Parton Distributions: path to the LHC, Frascati, Italy, Dec. 2016

“Nucleon structure phenomenology”; Non Perturbative QCD Workshop, NPQCD 2017, Pollenzo (CN), Italy, May 2017 [plenary]

“3D structure of the nucleon and transverse single-spin asymmetries”; PANDA Collaboration Meeting, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2017

Chairman of the Round Table on TMDs at the International Workshop Quarkonia as Tools, Aussois, France, Jan 2020

“Hadron production in e+e- collisions within a TMD approach and the Λ polarizing fragmentation function”; QCD Evolution Workshop 2021, Los Angeles (USA), May 2021

Languages

Italian             Mother tongue

English           fluent

Spanish          fluent