Alessandro Baldini

Alessandro Massimo Baldini

• Born in Viareggio, Italy, on March 1st, 1958
• Nationality, Italian
• Mailing Address : INFN , Sezione di Pisa
Largo B. Pontecorvo 3
56127, Pisa, Italy
• Education : Dottorato di Ricerca (PHD) in Fisica, Universita’ degli Studi di Pisa (1987)

• Professional Career :
2006- present Dirigente di Ricerca INFN
1996-2006 Primo Ricercatore INFN
1988-1996 Ricercatore INFN – Sezione di Pisa
1987-1988 Post Doctoral INFN Fellowship

Research Activity Summary

1983-1985 WA25 experiment at CERN SPS :
Data analysis for the study of nucleon structure functions from neutrino and antineutrino scattering in deuterium. Leading role in the determination of the neutral currents chiral coupling constants.

1984-1988 PS180 experiment at CERN (Search for oscillations at PS) :
Participation to all the phases of the experiment and particularly to the design and set up of the solid state detectors for the determination of the characteristics of the neutrino beam. Development of all the relevant Montecarlo simulation programs and leader of the final analysis of the experiment.

1987-2000 MACRO experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso - Italy :
Proponent of the experiment. Participation to the design and operation of the liquid scintillator system. Responsible for the design and construction of the DAQ system for the detection of neutrinos from stellar gravitational collapses. PI of the Pisa group from 1992 to 1997.

1994-2001 CHOOZ experiment at Chooz Nuclear Power Plant – France (Search for neutrino oscillations) :
Proponent of the experiment. Responsibility in the test and set-up of the photomultipliers of the experiment. Responsible of the DAQ system of the experiment. Design and responsibility of a neural network trigger for the efficient selection of neutrino events. Leader of the final analysis of the experiment. Coordinator of the italian participation from 1998 until the end of the experiment.

1998-2003 MUG-TEST : INFN R&D activity
Spokesperson of an italian team for the study of crystal calorimeters (LYSO + NaI, CSI) with the best possible energy, timing and position resolutions in the detection of 50 MeV photons in view of a possible experiment at PSI to search for the mu->e gamma decay.


2003-present MEG experiment at PSI laboratory (search for the mu->e gamma decay):
Proponent and co-spokesperson of the experiment. Active participation in the design, construction, test and running of the innovative liquid xenon calorimeter (800 liter) including the development, together with the Hamamatsu company, of a new kind of UV sensitive photomultiplier able to work with high gain at the liquid xenon temperature at high light levels. Participation in the development new experimental methods for calibration of the liquid xenon calorimeter. Direct participation in the final analysis of the experiment.

Committees

1994-1999 Member of the Commissione Scientifica Nazionale II of INFN
2001-2006 Member of the ISS Physics Working Group Collaboration
2008-2013 Member of the International Scientific Committee of LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) - INFN