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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, Italy, where he is involved in theoretical and phenomenological research activities concerning electroweak physics, and in particular neutrino and astroparticle physics. He got his Master (Laurea) in Physics cum laude in 1989 at the University of Bari, 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 Bruno Pontecorvo prize 2017, together with Gianluigi Fogli, with the following motivation: "For their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of neutrino oscillation 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 particle physics, 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 Earth 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, geoneutrinos); and the combination of worldwide information on neutrino masses and mixings in order to extract fundamental lepton parameters or to constrain unknown or nonstandard neutrinos 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 geoneutrino 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 electron 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 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize 2017 (together with G.L. Fogli) Responsibilities within INFN 1996, 2006 Committee member for undergraduate INFN fellowships 2004 Committee member for postdoc INFN fellowships
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