During the September meeting of the INFN Board of Directors, elections were held for the appointments of two members of the Executive Committee, the director of the National Center of the INFN GGI Galileo Galilei Institute and the director of the INFN Division of Lecce. The newly elected are Diego Bettoni and Chiara Meroni, Stefania De Curtis and Daniele Martello.
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Diego Bettoni is an experimental physicist expert in nuclear physics and high energy. His main research interests are in the field of hadronic spectroscopy, in particular the physics of conventional and exotic quarkonium, and hadron structure, in particular in the study of nucleon form factors. Bettoni has collaborated in experiments in the main international laboratories, including CERN in Geneva, Fermilab and SLAC in the United States and FAIR / GSI in Germany. He currently participates in the BESIII experiment at IHEP in China. He is co-author of over 600 scientific publications. Bettoni was director of the Ferrara section, and since 2017 he has been director of the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories |
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Chiara Meroni, married, with three children, is an INFN research manager and director of the division of Milan since 2012. In her scientific career she has worked in the field of elementary structure physics, participating in international collaborations at CERN. She has experimental skills in the field of semiconductor, silicon strip and pixel detectors. Currently working on the ATLAS experiment at LHC. She was the national coordinator of the European AIDA project for the construction of detector research and development infrastructures for future experiments, and currently holds the same position in the subsequent AIDA2020 project. |
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Stefania De Curtis is a research manager in theoretical physics at the INFN Section of Florence. After graduating in Physics at the University of Florence and PhD at SISSA in Trieste in Elementary Particle Physics, she has been a guest of Raoul Gatto and her group at the Physics Department of the University of Geneva. In 1988 she became a researcher at the INFN division of Florence, continuing to spend several periods of work at the University of Geneva and CERN, where she carried out research in the field of physics of fundamental interactions. Since 2005 she coordinates the theoretical group of the Florence division. She contributed to the birth of the Galileo Galilei Institute, which she has coordinated in the PhD schools since 2013. She is a member of the organizing committee of the "GGI Lectures on the Theory of Fundamental Interactions" and of the Plenary European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA). De Curtis is the author of more than 100 papers published in international journals, and about 60 contributions to conferences and workshops. |
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Daniele Martello, native of the Province of Lecce, is a professor of physics at the University of Salento. National manager of the Pierre Auger cosmic ray observatory in Argentina, he carries out his research in the field of astroparticle physics. He has participated in numerous experiments including MACRO at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of INFN, AMANDA at the South Pole and ARGO-YBJ on the Tibetan plateau, in China. Coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications, currently his research activity concerns the physics of cosmic rays. |
