CV of ADRIANO LAI (updated on September 2022)

Researcher unique indentifiers

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1633-0496.

Scopus Author id 55437008800

Scholar 

Main present research interest

Development of innovative devices for wide-spectrum radiation sensing and processing

Ongoing research activities, collaborations and roles

IGNITE (INFN): Principal Investigator. National project on developments for integrated electronics systems for 4D-tracking in future collider experiments.

OPTIME (INFN): Principal Investigator. Development of a prototype photonic device with sensibility from NIR to X-rays and ps time resolution. INFN of Cagliari, Torino, Trento.

LHCb experiment at CERN: Studies for Upgrade2 Vertex Locator, (CERN, Manchester, NIKHEF, Barcelona et al.). Cagliari local coordinator.

AIDA Innova (EU): Co-responsible of test and validation of 3D silicon sensors. Governing Board member.

Current position

Director of Technology, Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Cagliari Unit (Italy)

Previous positions

2018–2005       Permanent position as Senior Researcher (Primo Ricercatore). INFN, Cagliari Unit, Italy.

2005–1996       Permanent position as Researcher (Ricercatore). INFN, Cagliari Cagliari Unit, Italy.

1995–1992       Applied Physicist (Tecnologo). INFN, Cagliari Cagliari Unit, Italy.

Education

1983 Maturità Liceo Classico G.M. Dettori, full score (60/60)

1987 Masters in Physics, Università di Cagliari, full score (110/110 cum laude). Master thesis: Progettazione ed uso di macchine calcolatrici per teorie di gauge su reticolo (supervisor: prof. G. Fiorentini), work carried out at INFN Pisa laboratories. Grant for under-graduate students on “Research on RISC processors for use in experimental techniques”, Olivetti S.p.a, Ivrea, Italy in 1986.

1992 PhD in Physics, Università di Pisa. PhD Thesis: “Design and making of a parallel super-computer dedicated to Lattice Gauge Theories”. (supervisor: prof. N. Cabibbo, Università di Roma la Sapienza). 

Main scientific responsabilities (national and international)

2023-               National responsible and coordinator of the IGNITE project (14 research units, 75 researchers)

2018-2021       National responsible and coordinator of the TimeSPOT project (10 research units, 60 researchers)

2015–2018       Member of the INFN National Scientific and Resources Advisory Board for experiments at colliders (INFN National Scientific Commission CSN1).

2013–2016       INFN Scientific responsible of the SENSIPLUS project. R&D on detectors and electronics for environment monitoring and homeland security.

2012–2015       Member of INFN National Board of Representatives for Technology Transfer of Research and Development Activities.

2015–1993       National and international leading/coordinating/proponent role in several R&D initiatives, among which: deputy project leader of the Muon system (CERN LHCb, 2007-2009); designer, coordinator and responsible of Muon electronic system (CERN LHCb, 2001-2009); AllDigitAll, (INFN, 2012, microelectronics,  resp. of Cagliari activity); AXIOMA, DORELAS and POLARIS (INFN, 2017-10, detectors for dark matter,  resp. of Cagliari activity); µDiagene (EU, FP6, 1998-2000, resp. of microelectronics activity); MARE 1999-97 (INFN,  detectors and electronics, Principal Investigator); resp. of the electronic system for the readout of the hodoscopes (CERN NA48, 1993-1997); coordinator of electronics laboratory and workshop at INFN Cagliari (1994-2002).

Reviewing activies

2021-2019        Editorial board. Frontiers in Physics, Radiation Detectors and Imaging.

2020-2000        Reviewer of several journals including Transaction in Nuclear Science IEEE, Nuclear Instrument and Methods in Physics Research, Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). 

2020–2016       Member of the INFN National Scientific and Resources Review Board of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC.

2018                 Review panel member of the CERN review committee for the Upstream Tracker electronics of the LHCb experiment

2016–2015       Member of the INFN Scientific and Resources Reviewer Board of the BESIII experiment at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing – China.

2004                 Member of the CERN Review committee for the Outer Tracker electronics of the LHCb experiment.

2003                 Member of the CERN Review committee for the Muon detector electronics of the LHCb experiment.