Sergio Bertolucci (born 1 January 1950) is an Italian

particle physicist Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the scale of protons and ...

, and a former director of research and scientific computing at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

(''Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire'').

Early life

He was born in

La Spezia La Spezia (, or ; ; , in the local ) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second-largest city in the Liguria ...

. He studied particle physics at the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa (, UniPi) is a public university, public research university in Pisa, Italy. Founded in 1343, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced S ...

. He did further research at

DESY DESY, short for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English: ''German Electron Synchrotron''), is a national research centre for fundamental science located in Hamburg and Zeuthen near Berlin in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to ...

in Germany.

Career

LNF

From 2002 to 2004 he worked at the

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati The INFN National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF) was founded in 1954 with the objective of furthering particle physics research, and more specifically to host the 1.1 GeV electrosynchrotron, the first accelerator ever built in Italy. The La ...

(LNF), where he was director.

INFN

From 2005 to 2008 he worked at

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 the 8th of August 1 ...

(INFN) in Italy.

CERN

He served as CERN director of research from 2009 to 2015. physicsworld, 4 Jan 2016
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References

External links

CERN
1950 births 20th-century Italian physicists People associated with CERN People from La Spezia University of Pisa alumni Living people 21st-century Italian physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{Italy-physicist-stub