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About Me
Research Scientist at INFN National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Pisa (Italy)
Address
Giovanni Signorelli
INFN Sezione di Pisa
Edificio C
Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 2
I-56127 Pisa (Italy)
Phone:
+39 050 2214 425 (office)
+39 050 2214 450 (lab)
Contacts
giovanni.signorelli@pi.infn.it
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Born in a small town near Venezia (Venice) on 21 April 1975 obtains his high-school education from Liceo Scientfico “Ugo Morin” in Venezia Mestre.
Enrolled in 1994 to Pisa University as a boarding student of Scuola Normale Superiore college, obtains his Master’s degree in 1999 with a thesis on the feasibility study of a measurement of the angle γ of the unitarity triangle in the CDF experiment, under the supervision of Giovanni Punzi, prepared at FermiLab, Chicago (USA)
As a graduate student at Scuola Normale Superiore from 2000 to 2002 works on the MEG experiment since its design stage. He obtains the PhD title in February 2005 discussing a thesis on “A sensitive search for lepton flavour violation: the MEG experiment and the new liquid xenon calorimetry” (advisor Alessandro Baldini).
Since December 2005 he is a research scientist for Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Pisa. He performed his research work in several foreign laboratories such as FermiLab (Chicago) and Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland)
Curriculum vitae et studiorum
Research activity
Teaching
He started his research carreer in the field of experimental particle physics studying CP violation in B-meson systems, and its measure at hadron colliders. He developed a particular interest in rare-event analysis and in finding coherent apporaches to systematic error evaluations in frequentistic statistics.
He is involved, together with the INFN Pisa group, in the MEG experiment to search for the µ→eγ decay, both in Monte Carlo simulation (detector design and optimization) and in construction (study of the neutron background, study of the properties of liquid xenon, photomultiplier calibration in a cryogenic test station) with particular emphasis on the experiment calibrations (usage of a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to generate monochromatic multi-MeV γ-lines, design and construction of its beam line, design and operation of a liquid hydrogen target to be used in calibrations by means of a charge exchange π- p → πº n reaction.)
Presently he is principal investigator of a FIRB project (grant from the Italian Minisery of Education for Young Scientists) to study charge-scintillation hybrid cryogenic liquefied noble gases detectors for high energy physics.
Since 2000 he has been teaching assistant at the Physics Department of Pisa University in several topics, such as Introductory Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (prof. Carlo Bemporad), Astroparticle Physics (prof. Carlo Bemporad, dott. Alessandro Baldini), Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (prof. Flavio Costantini) and Elementary Particle Physics (prof. Flavio Costantini). He has been advisor and co-advisor of several Master’s theses.
