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Eligio Lisi curriculum

(Updated as of March 2018)

Bruno Pontecorvo Prize 2017

http://www.jinr.ru/posts/pontecorvo-prize-for-2017

Scientific Career

Eligio Lisi (born 1966) is Director of Research ("Dirigente di Ricerca") at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Bari, , where he is involved in theoretical and phenomenological research activities concerning electroweak physics, and in particular and astroparticle physics.

He got his Master (Laurea) in Physics cum laude in 1989 at the , receiving the prize "Oreste del Prete" for the best Master thesis in physics or mathematics of the year. After serving the Italian Army as Officer (1990-91), he has been doctoral student at the University of Bari (1991- 1993), where he received the PhD (1994). Supported by various postodc fellowships, he was Scientific Associate at the CERN Theory Division (1993-1994) and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1995-1996). In 1995 he received the Young Physicist prize of SIF (Società Italiana di Fisica). He became INFN staff Researcher in 1996, then Senior Researcher in 2002, and Director of Research in 2007 (current role). He has also got the Habilitation as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics (with the highest marks) in 2014. In March 2018 he has been awarded the prestigious prize 2017, together with Gianluigi Fogli, with the following motivation: "For their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of data from different experiments."

Within INFN he has been Coordinator of the local theory group in Bari (2010-2017) and Convener of the national working group on Neutrino Physics for the "What Next INFN" initiative (2014-2016). He is the local responsible of the local astroparticle theory group (since 2011), and national coordinator of the network of Theoretical Astroarticle Physics "TASP" (since 2014). He served as member of the International Scientific Committee of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso INFN-LNGS (2008- 2014) and of the Scientific Board of Center for Astroparticle Physics of LNGS (2012-2015). He is currently member of International Scientific Committee of the Canfranc Laboratory in Spain (since 2016) and of the International Advisory Panel for the project ESS Neutrino SuperBeam (since 2018). He has acted as referee or committee member for several INFN experiments, grants and prizes, and has been tutor or opponent for several PhD students' theses. He is also anonymous referee for many international Journals, for the Italian evaluation of research, and for the assignment of grants by European and Japanese funding agencies.

He has published more than 220 papers (including refereed articles, conference proceedings and edited volumes) in the theory and phenomenology of , with a very high impact on the scientific community. From the InSPIRE database: >10200 cites total; two papers with >500 cites; Hirsch index h=53. He is often called to talk about his research and to review the status of neutrino physics in major physics conferences, in graduate and undergraduate schools, and in various institutions in Italy and abroad. He has delivered >140 talks, seminars and lectures.

He has also acted as convener, chairman, advisor and co-organizer in many physics conferences worldwide. At local level, he founded the "Bari Theory Xmas Workshop", that since 2011 gathers the young researchers who got their Master or PhD in Bari and now work abroad. At an international level, he is one of the main organizers, proceedings editor and current co-Chair of the International "Neutrino Oscillation Workshop" (NOW) biannual series, that since the year 2000 gathers about 140 physicists - including Nobel Laureates - to discuss the current results and future perspectives in the field of neutrino and astroparticle physics: www.ba.infn.it/now

Research activity

The research activity of Eligio Lisi has been focused on the theory and phenomenology of electroweak processes within the Standard Model and beyond, with increasing interest in the field of neutrino physics and related areas in astroparticle physics. His research projects have often been developed in fruitful collaboration with other researchers in Italy and abroad.

In the first part of his career (early 90's) he investigated in detail virtual effects induced by the top quark and by the Higgs boson on precision electroweak observables (including those being measured at the LEP collider at CERN), obtaining estimates for their masses in agreement (within 20% or better) with their subsequent discoveries. He also placed some of the very first constraints on supersymmetric and technicolor models via electroweak data.

In the mid-90's, he started a systematic study of neutrino physics and related areas in astroparticle physics and cosmology. This study has covered the theoretical and phenomenological analysis of neutrino flavor oscillations from solar, atmospheric, accelerator, reactor, supernova, and radioactive decay sources, as well as absolute neutrino mass observables in the context of precision cosmology and of single and double beta decay. Relevant results obtained in this field include: the theoretical interpretation of the available data within and beyond the standard three-neutrino mixing scenario; the introduction of accurate analytical and numerical methods for the calculation of the oscillation probabilities, especially in nontrivial backgrounds (matter effects in the and in stars, self- interaction effects in core-collapse supernovae); the elaboration of rigorous statistical methods for the comparison of theoretical calculations with experimental data, in many different areas of neutrino physics (oscillations, neutrinoless double beta decay, ); and the combination of worldwide information on neutrino masses and mixings in order to extract fundamental lepton parameters or to constrain unknown or nonstandard properties (global data analyses). In particular, the latter research activity allowed to get early evidence for the nonzero value of the smallest neutrino mixing angle, before its experimental discovery with reactor neutrinos. He also investigated the role of neutrinos in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and precision cosmology.

Recent research interests include: refining the analysis of possible indications of CP violation from neutrino oscillations; investigating the sensitivity of upcoming oscillation experiments (in vacuum and in matter) to the neutrino mass hierarchy; studying ways to reduce parametric uncertainties in nuclear models, yielding more accurate matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay; and constructing a reference model for the crustal contribution to observable fluxes.

Some representative publications:

J.R. Ellis, G.L. Fogli and E. Lisi, ``The Top quark and Higgs boson masses in the standard model and the MSSM,'' Phys. Lett. B 333, 118 (1994).

J.N. Bahcall and E. Lisi, ``Tests of flavor conservation with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory,'' Phys. Rev. D 54, 5417 (1996).

E. Lisi, S. Sarkar and F.L. Villante, ``The big bang nucleosynthesis limit on N(ν),'' Phys. Rev. D 59, 123520 (1999).

E. Lisi, A. Marrone and D. Montanino, ``Probing possible decoherence effects in atmospheric neutrino oscillations,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1166 (2000).

E. Lisi, A. Marrone, D. Montanino, A. Palazzo and S.T. Petcov, ``Analytical description of quasivacuum oscillations of solar neutrinos,'' Phys. Rev. D 63, 093002 (2001).

G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone and A. Mirizzi, ``Collective neutrino flavor transitions in supernovae and the role of trajectory averaging,'' JCAP 0712, 010 (2007).

L. Camilleri, E. Lisi and J.F. Wilkerson, ``Neutrino Masses and Mixings: Status and Prospects,'' Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 58, 343 (2008).

G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, D. Montanino, A. Palazzo and A. M. Rotunno, ``Global analysis of neutrino masses, mixings and phases: entering the era of leptonic CP violation searches,'' Phys. Rev. D 86, 013012 (2012).

G. Fiorentini, G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, F. Mantovani and A. M. Rotunno, ``Mantle geoneutrinos in KamLAND and Borexino,'' Phys. Rev. D 84, 033004 (2012)

F. Capozzi, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, D. Montanino and A. Palazzo, ``Neutrino masses and mixings: Status of known and unknown 3ν parameters,'' Nucl. Phys. B 908, 218 (2016), Special Issue

Bio data 1966 Born in Naples, Italy 1999 Married with Maria Palmisano 2000, 2003 Father of Alessandra, Francesco Office: INFN, Sezione di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari Email: [email protected]

Career Path 1988 CERN Summer Student 1989 Master in Physics (Laurea in Fisica) cum laude, Univ. of Bari, Italy 1990 U. of Bari Prize for the best Master thesis in Physics or Mathematics 1990-1991 Italian Army service as Officer 1994 PhD in Physics, Univ. of Bari (advisor: G.L. Fogli) 1993-1994 Scientific Associate, Theory Division, CERN (advisor: J. Ellis) 1995 Young Physicist Prize ("Operosità scientifica") of Società Italiana di Fisica 1995-1996 Postdoc Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ (advisor J. Bahcall) 1996-2001 INFN Researcher, Section of Bari 2002-2006 INFN Senior Researcher, Section of Bari 2007 - INFN Director of Research, Section of Bari (current role) 2014 - Habilitation as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics 2018 2017 (together with G.L. Fogli)

Responsibilities within INFN 1996, 2006 Committee member for undergraduate INFN fellowships 2004 Committee member for postdoc INFN fellowships 2013 Committee member for the INFN "Fubini Prize" for best PhD theses 2008-2014 Member of the International Scientific Committee of Lab. Naz. del Gran Sasso 2012-2015 Member of "Centro di Fisica Astroparticellare" of Gran Sasso 2004-2017 Referee of INFN projects in neutrino and astroparticle physics 2010-2017 Coordinator of Bari Theory Group 2011 - Coordinator of local node for the Theoretical Astroparticle Physics network 2013 - Coordinator of national network for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics 2014-2016 Convener of the Neutrino Physics working group for "INFN: What Next?"

Responsibilities outside INFN 1995 - Anonymous referee for many international physics Journals 2007 Member of the PhD admission exam committee, U. of Bari 2010, 2016 Referee for the Italian "Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR)" 2002 - Opponent for 10 PhD candidates (in Italy and abroad) 2003 - Referee for 6 foreign candidates to Professorship 2010 - Referee for Grants of European and Japanese agencies 2016 - Member of the International Scientific Committee of Canfranc Lab. (Spain) 2018 - Member of the International Advisory Panel for the ESSnuSB project

Organization of Conferences and Workshops 2000 - Chairman, Advisor or Convener in many international conferences 2000 - Organizer and co-Chair of NOW - Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (biannual) 2011-2016 Founder of Bari Theory Xmas Workshop (annual) 2014-2016 Co-organizer of "Scuola di Dottorato di Otranto" (annual)

Presentations 1992 - More than 140 invited talks, seminars and lectures in Italy and abroad. Of particular relevance: 1998 Speaker at "Nobel Symposium 1998" (Enkoping, Sweden) 2010 Theory Summary speaker at "Neutrino 2010" (Athens, Greece) 2010 Neutrino Summary speaker at "ICHEP 2010" (Paris, France) 2018 Scheduled: Opening Talk at "Neutrino 2018" (Germany) Lectures and tutoring 1995- (Co)tutor of several Master and PhD students, U. of Bari 1998-2012 Lectures to PhD students, U. of Bari and Padua 2005-2007 Part of the undergraduate course "Astroparticle Physics", U. of Bari 2005- Popularization physics seminars in Italian Colleges and Universities 2001, 2002 Lectures at ICTP School (, Italy) 2005 Lectures at Nufact School (Capri, Italy) 2007 Lectures at Nagoya Winter School (Ise-Shima, ) 2010 Lectures at CHIPP Winter School (Ascona, ) 2010 Lectures at UniverseNet School (Lecce, Italy) 2013 Lectures at CHIPP PhD Winter School (Grindelwald, Switzerland) 2014 Lectures at Frascati Spring School (Frascati, Italy) 2016 Lectures at NBIA PhD Summer School (Copenhagen, Denmark) 2017 Lectures at ISAPP PhD Summer School (Arenzano, Italy)

Publication and Bibliometry (from inspirehep.net) Scientific papers: >220 (refereed papers + conference proceedings + edited volumes) http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=find+a+lisi,+e&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d Total cites: >10200 Top cites: 2 papers with >500 cites, and 6 papers with >250 cites. Hirsch index: h = 53

In each year since 2006, at least one paper by Eligio Lisi appears among the top 100 most-cited papers in hep-ph (high-energy physics phenomenology) on InSPIRE

In 2006, [1] is in 17th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2006/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2007, [1] is in 34th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2007/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2008, [1] is in 68th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2008/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2009, [2] is in 48th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2009/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2010, [2] is in 50th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2010/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2011, [3] is in 55th position and [2] in 100th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2011/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2012, [3] is in 28th position and [4] in 61st position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2012/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2013, [4] is in 17th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2013/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2014, [4] is in 29th position and [5] in 56th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2014/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2015, [5] is in 36th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2015/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2016, [5] is in 62nd position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2016/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html In 2017, [6] is in 85th position: http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2017/eprints/to_hep-ph_annual.html

References:

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0506083 (504 cites total) [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2649 (343 cites total) [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.6028 (374 cites total) [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5254 (696 cites total) [5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2878 (485 cites total) [6] https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07777 (167 cites total)