Luisa Cifarelli

FInstP Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) is "the highest level of membership attainable" by physicists who are members of the Institute of Physics (IoP), "for those with a degree in physics or related subject (or equivalent knowledge gained ...

(born 11 June 1952) is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

. She is the Director of the La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento.

Early life and education

Cifarelli was born in Rome in 1952. She studied physics at the

and graduated in 1975. She worked as a researcher in at the

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN; "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle, theoretical and astroparticle physics in Italy. History INFN was founded on 8 August 1951, to furt ...

and

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. She edited the collection of scientific studies for the publication ''QCD at 200 TeV''. In 1988 she was made an associate professor at L'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Career

Cifarelli was appointed full Professor at the

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in 1991. She moved to the

University of Salerno The University of Salerno ( it, Università degli Studi di Salerno, UNISA) is a university located in Fisciano and in Baronissi, Italy. Its main campus is located in Fisciano while the Faculty of Medicine is located in Baronissi. It is organized ...

in 1993. She works at

, the

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the largest underground research center in the world. Situated below Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, it is well known for particle physics research by the INFN. In addition to a surface portion of the ...

DESY The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English ''German Electron Synchrotron''), commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matt ...

and the

. She has been involved in the design and construction of the

ALICE experiment ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of eight detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The other seven are: ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, LHCf, MoEDAL and FASER. Introduction ALICE is optimized to study heavy-ion ( ...

, which studies

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-proton and

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-nucleus collisions at extreme energies. She was made Head of the

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Data Analysis and Simulation Group in 2000. She served as Deputy Chairperson of the

time of flight Time of flight (ToF) is the measurement of the time taken by an object, particle or wave (be it acoustic, electromagnetic, etc.) to travel a distance through a medium. This information can then be used to measure velocity or path length, or as a w ...

experiment at

. She used the

to study quark-gluon interactions. She coordinates the Extreme Energy Events experiments, which uses muon detectors in high schools around Italy to study cosmic swarms. She serves on the DarkSide project; a 20 tonne Two-Phase LAr TPC for Direct Dark Matter Detection at the

. In 2008, Cifarelli was the first woman to be made President of the

Italian Physical Society The (SIF) or Italian Physical Society was founded in 1897 and is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote, encourage, protect the study and the progress of physics in Italy and in the world. It is associated with the journal series '' Nuo ...

in 2008. That year she was also elected as a

Fellow of the Institute of Physics Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) is "the highest level of membership attainable" by physicists who are members of the Institute of Physics (IoP), "for those with a degree in physics or related subject (or equivalent knowledge gained ...

. In 2011 she was appointed President of the

European Physical Society The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical so ...

. Cifarelli was the first woman to be elected president of the

. She was made President of the Enrico Fermi Center for Study and Research. She has spoken about the life of

Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and ...

extensively. Cifarelli has acted as editor of the

European Physical Journal The ''European Physical Journal'' (or ''EPJ'') is a joint publication of EDP Sciences, Springer Science+Business Media, and the Società Italiana di Fisica. It arose in 1998 as a merger and continuation of ''Acta Physica Hungarica'', ''Anales de F ...

. She serves on the editorial board of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cifarelli, Luisa 1952 births Academic staff of the University of Bologna Living people 21st-century Italian physicists Particle physicists People associated with CERN Italian women physicists 20th-century Italian physicists Presidents of the European Physical Society Fellows of the American Physical Society