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1 Andrea Vacchi Curiculum Tel Work Mobile Index Pag 2-3 Pag 4-7 Pag 8-9 Pag 9-10 CV in short form Detailed CV Publications Professional Summary 1

2 DR. ANDREA VACCHI CURRICULUM VITAE Present position: INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Research) Director of research at INFN Trieste Section ITALY C/o Laboratori Area di Ricerca Padriciano Trieste (I) Research : -Cosmic ray experiments -Accelerator experiments -Semiconductor detectors development projects -Medical & cross disciplinary applications Born in Bologna 09/12/1951 RELEVANT STEPS: 1976 Degree with honors - Physics, University of Bologna Research Scientist ETH-LHE Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), c/o Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (PSI) Research Associate, Rockefeller Univ. N.Y.USA Senior Fellow CERN, Exp. Physics Division European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) Senior Research Associate Physics Department Rockefeller University 1987 Assistant Professor, Physics Department Rockefeller University 1989 Scientist INFN Inst. Nat. Fisica Nucleare Trieste Italy 1990 Senior Research Associate (primo ricercatore) Member of the National INFN R&D board Since 1991 WIZARD-PAMELA experiment local coordinator, antimatter search in cosmic rays; CAPRICE Stratospheric balloons ; Satellite PAMELA successfully flown in Since 1992 Spokesman of the DSI experiment a national collab. for development of Silicon Drift Detectors Member international Board of referee of the STAR exp. Brookhaven National Laboratory USA Project Manager, satellite Wizard-NINA, Telescope for the study of low energy cosmic ray Nuclei; launched successfully Scientific coordinator Electronics and detectors Lab. Trieste Coordinator for the development of the CERN LHC 2

3 ALICE Silicon Drift Detectors for the tracking system Infn Research Director Chairman of the INFN National Scientific Board for Technological developments and cross disciplinary applications, CSN As CSN 5 chairman, takes part to the first INFN evaluation Director of The Trieste INFN section Editorial Director of the Infn out reach journal ASIMMETRIE Scientific Committee of the FBK Foundation in Trento referent for the material and micro-system area INFN Executive Board Andrea Vacchi is an experimental physicist leading a group active in space and accelerator physics experiments, he follows activities in all directions from instrument design and realization to simulation and data analysis. Has an extensive experimental background in development and use of particles detectors including scintillators, transition radiation detectors, highly refined silicon drift detectors and silicon tracking electromagnetic calorimeters. He has lead the realization of the silicon tungsten tracking calorimeter for the satellite based spectrometer PAMELA successfully launched in June 2006 dedicated to antimatter search in cosmic rays with particular regards to the high energy component of antiprotons and positrons. From the detector development point of view he was addressing a unique effort to produce large area silicon drift detectors. This sort of very refined and versatile detector having areas of the order of 8 x 8 cm 2 can be assembled in mosaics in order to cover larger surfaces. The characteristics of those detectors very briefly recapitulate as: high position resolution for radiation detection, high energy resolution, low number of read-out channels, unambiguous position identification also in presence of high hit multiplicity. Designed in Trieste, those detectors are satisfactorily applied in the ALICE experiment at CERN-LHC. From this sort of silicon sensors a lot of application are being brought ahead on a cross disciplinary basis mainly in the field of x-ray spectroscopy with great potentials for the use in various fields. He has been active in the medical application of silicon detectors with particular regard to the problems of screening in mammography with the development of high efficiency high contrast detector now on its path towards applications. As a chairman of the INFN Board for Basic Technology Developments INFN-Commissione 5, he had the opportunity to gather a rather complete view of all themes bound to front-edge technology developments and applications. For the Infn executive board he has followed, besides other commitments, various Committees caring for all aspects of R&D; Technology Transfer; intellectual property, spin-off creation and contact with the industry. To overlook a large scientific project and bring it to the right progression and completion, caring for the scientific perspectives, budget, personnel and administrative matter; to evaluate projects under different point of views that are critical like: novelty, cost, relevance; to manage a large administration with the needed care for the personal relationship among the staff members, all this is part of his background and daily work. LANGUAGE & COMPUTER SKILLS Speak Write Read Understand English Good Good Excellent Excellent French Good Good Excellent Excellent German Good Fair Good Good Italian Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Database Presentation tools Spreadsheet Text processing Average Advanced Average Advanced 3

4 CV Details Vacchi Andrea EDUCATION Original title: Laurea in Fisica Obtained in: Field of study: Major subjects: From to: 10/ /1976 School/University: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy EMPLOYMENT RECORD Physics Physics, address in experimental physics research 07/ /110+honours Job title: Employer: Member of the INFN From: 01/2009 To: 01/2012 Executive Board INFN Italian National Institute for Nuclear Research The organization of the INFN represents an effective balance between centralized and decentralized management. The main decisional body of the Institute is the Council of Directors, comprised of the President the Executive Board, the Directors of the four National Laboratories and the 19 Local Sections (Sezioni). Research activity at the INFN is carried out at two complementary types of facilities: the Sections and the National Laboratories. Each of the 19 Sections is located at a University physics department. The Divisions thus provide a direct connection between the Institute and the academic world. The four Laboratories in Catania, Frascati, Legnaro, and at Gran Sasso are home to major facilities available to the national and international scientific community. The INFN workforce includes about 2000 of its own employees, almost 3000 university employees involved in research conducted by the Institute, and about 1200 young researchers, including undergraduate and graduate students and research fellows. In the Infn Executive Board I have been, with three other board members, direct collaborator of the Infn President. I had, among my responsibilities, the supervision of: - the activities of the National Research and Development board CSN5, - the activity of the NTA board, fostering the development of New Acceleration Technologies, - the Infn-Med board following the applicative path of new technologies apt for medical applications, - The activity related to the free electron laser in the Infn Laboratory of Frascati where also the laser-light plasma-interaction as well as the electron-beam laser-light interaction is under study. - the CCR Commissione Calcolo e Reti board caring of computing and network for all Infn structures, - the main Infn computing center in Bologna, CNAF, hosting the TIER 1 for LHC Computing and Grid activities, - Infn's technology transfer activities, Intellectual Property and spin-off, - of the office for contractual and patrimonial transactions, - the development of the informative system for the administrative and personal actions - of the Committee for the Equal Opportunities CPO CUG (comitato unico di garanzia) While representing Infn I am member of: - the board of directors of the GARR the Italian Academic and Research Network, - the Scientific Committee of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, - the board of financing agencies of neutrino factory experiment MICE atrutherford laboratory UK. - the Infn activities related to the European Project ELI Extreme Light Infrastructure - Chair of the committee overlooking the common activities of ICTP and INFN in Trieste Job title: Employer: Director of the From: 05/2003 To: 12/2008 INFN Trieste Section INFN Italian National Insittute for Nuclear Research, Trieste, Italy The Director of the Infn section of Trieste and Udine connected group is part of the board of directors of the Institute; legally he is the employer of the staff composed in, Trieste, of about 50 persons among administrative, technical and research collaborators. Beside this, about 160 researchers and students from the local Universities Physics Departments are referring to the Infn administrative and technical structure for a large fraction of the scientific research activities. Taking care of the personnel; addressing the scientific work strategy; caring and checking for the budget and financial aspects; planning the development of the laboratories and facilities; the matter of safety and prevention; looking for the interconnection with the other national and international research realities are among the tasks of the Infn Director. Besides the salaries, the yearly budget for all the research related activity administrated by this Direction is of the order of 3-4 million Euros. I have dedicated a particular attention to the development of the research facilities in support of the research work such as electronic and mechanic shops, network 4

5 and computing services (with the birth of an advanced computing farm), high technology with the aim of establishing an efficient approach to the open-lab and technology-transfer-like share of information and facilities. The main INFN Laboratory in Trieste is located in the AREA di Ricerca where the computing farm, the electronic laboratory and the administration are located. Infn-Trieste has a common laboratory with ICTP called Micro lab with the target of fostering advanced scientific projects within the frames of the ICTP mission, I have personally dedicated a care to the progress of this unit. Promoting front edge scientific technology projects Infn is able to openly share scientific methods and knowledge in the most direct and efficient way. In 2005 I have been member of a working group whose task was to produce a report on tumor therapy with protons from dedicated accelerators. The report frames the activity throughout the world in this field and the specific initiatives going on in Italy towards the use of protons and ions for therapy. My contribution in this work is originated from the times where, as chairman of the R&D Group 5 board, I have evaluated and supported various initiatives in this direction. In the late 2006 I have been charged by the Infn President to revive the Infn internal periodic publication for out-reach while leading the editorial board composed of a group of 5 scientists and 4 redactors. The publication has been totally renewed. As a target we have chosen the high school students aiming with this at the largest audience including Institutions. Each publication is a monograph in specific physics arguments with aim of a long lasting persistence, this with a new graphic design and a plain level of scientific language. The initiative has had a good evaluation from the public, the up to copies printed for each number are soon exhausted, a well-refined web page has been organized: As a senior member of the Infn Directorate I had a variety of activities whose aim is to perfection the functioning of the Institute nation wide in different directions, i.e. I was a member of the committee looking for the internal formation initiatives for the research and technical staff, like schools or conferences; I was also part of the committee looking for the optimization of the relationship between the University's Physics Departments and Infn; member of the committee taking care of the Infn intellectual property and technology transfer. As a Infn Director I kept a good constructive contact with the local administration, the University Dean of Udine and Trieste, the Director of SISSA, the President of AREA di Ricerca and of Elettra synchrtotron light laboratory. Job title: Employer: Research Director - Chairman of From: 09/2000 To: 04/2003 National Board CSN 5 INFN Italian National Insittute for Nuclear Research, Research, Trieste, Italy The Infn Board for basic technology research and developments, (called Gruppo 5 or Commissione Scientifica Nazionale 5), is in charge for the peer review and the financing of the whole technological R&D and Interdisciplinary experimental activity of Infn for the whole Italy, the yearly budget distributed by this board ranges around four million Euros. The board, composed of about thirty people representing the various INFN sections and Laboratories, is the reference for a research community of more than thousands researchers. As a chairman of the board I have had the opportunity to gather a rather complete view of all research themes bound to cutting edge technology developments and applications. The activities, bound to R&D and its interdisciplinary applications, are the most visible bridge from the basic research its highly refined methods and technologies and the society. It is a valid showroom, for the socioeconomic impact of the research work, very important today to foster contact between research and industry and the image of research in the society. The development of front edge detectors and electronics, semiconductors, and accelerators and its applications to other sectors and disciplines are among the projects scrutinized and eventually financed by this board. Within those activities, during my chairmanship, a strong impulse has been given to the development of medical applications of research instruments in particular to the development and use of low cost compact accelerators for medical applications with particular regard to cancer therapy with protons. It is a very promising therapy instrument. As a chairman I took part to various official research evaluation exercises reporting to the evaluation committee and answering to the subsequent queries and questions. Job title: Research Director From: 09/1997 To: 05/2010 Employer: INFN Italian National Insittute for Nuclear Research, Research, Trieste, Italy In Trieste I am leading an experimental physics group of 6 researchers active in space and accelerator experiments. The activity touches all directions; coordination and planning of the research within the various perspectives and challenges; advanced detectors development; instrument simulation design and realization; data analysis. Through the years of activity in research, I have gathered an extensive background in the projecting of physics experiments the long and medium range planning of scientific activities and also towards the development and use of particles detectors including scintillators, transition radiation detectors, highly refined silicon drift detectors and silicon tracking electromagnetic calorimeters. As far as cosmic rays research is concerned, I am co-author of a number of papers on antimatter search in space. This is a fundamental matter related, among others, to arguments like the possible origin of the Universe and dark matter. We have realized a silicon tungsten tracking calorimeter for the satellite based spectrometer PAMELA. The PAMELA satellite-borne apparatus was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit with an inclination of 70 degrees on June 15th The combination of a permanent magnet silicon strip spectrometer, and a silicon-tungsten imaging calorimeter allows precision studies of the charged 5

6 cosmic radiation to be conducted over a wide energy range (~100 MeV - 100's GeV) with high statistics. The primary scientific goal is the measurement of the antiproton and positron energy spectrum in order to search for exotic sources, such as dark matter particle annihilations. PAMELA is also searching for primordial antinuclei (anti-helium), and testing cosmic-ray propagation models through precise measurements of the antiparticle energy spectrum and precision studies of light nuclei and their isotopes. Concomitant goals include a study of solar physics and solar modulation during the 24th solar minimum by investigating low energy particles in the cosmic radiation; and a reconstruction of the cosmic ray electron energy spectrum up to several TeV thereby allowing a possible contribution from local sources to be studied. From the detector development point of view I was leading an Italian effort to produce large area silicon drift detectors. The characteristics of those, very elegant and versatile, detectors very briefly recapitulate as: high position resolution for particles detection, high energy resolution, low number of read-out channels, unambiguous particle track identification also in presence of high hit multiplicity. This detectors have been totally developed in Trieste and are applied in the ALICE experiment at the CERN accelerator LHC. Around this functioning principle for silicon sensors a lot of application are being brought ahead on a cross disciplinary basis, not last different applications in the field of homeland security and high sensitivity radioactive contamination verification. As specific development in this last direction is an experiment called Xdxl. This is progressing with some success and has lead to a collaboration between Trieste, Padova, Bologna and Rome. The prospected applications are in the field of medical physics and low energy x-ray astrophysics. I have also been active in the field of medical application of silicon detectors, with particular regard to the problems of screening in mammography, with the development of a high efficiency, high contrast detector now on its path towards the final applications. Job title: Experimental physicist From: 12/1989 To: 09/1990 Employer: INFN Italian National Institute for Nuclear Research, Research, Trieste Italy, Italy From the late 1989 I decided to come back to Italy as a Scientist at the INFN in Trieste taking over the responsibility for the project of study cosmic rays through the development of a silicon tungsten calorimeter, unique at the time, and to carry ahead work on the development of advanced semiconductor detectors. Soon (1990) I was promoted Senior Research Associate and became local coordinator of the WIZARD experiment to search for antimatter in cosmic rays using stratospheric balloons and satellites member elected of the national Infn R&D board (Commissione 5). From 1992 initiator and spokesman of the Dsi experiment an Italian national collaboration including Catania, Bari, Bologna and Torino for development of Silicon Drift Detectors. From 1993 to 1997 called to be a member of the international Board of referee of the STAR experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory USA. In the years I was acting as Project Manager for the realization of the satellite Wizard-NINA based on silicon detectors, a Telescope for the study of low energy cosmic ray nuclei, NINA was launched successfully in 1998 with performances which largely surpassed the expectations. As a Scientific coordinator, of the Electronics and detectors Laboratory in Trieste from 1994 to 2003, I have addressed it toward the function of a common facility open to all experimental front edge developments and also open to collaborations with external institutions. At present the laboratory has more than 10 highly specialized technicians. From 1996 to 2004 I was initiator and coordinator of the local initiative related to the LHC experiment ALICE at CERN in Geneva. This experiment is investigating the collision between relativistic Lead ions to look for the high temperature high density quark gluon plasma. In the frames of the work within very large international collaboration, our duty has been to realize a silicon drift detector layers as an advanced tracking device, the SDD detectors whose design and qualification is an INFN-Trieste realization have been all delivered and installed in the experiment in 2007 and are performing as expected. Job title: Assistant Professor From: 10/1986 To: 11/1989 Employer: The Rockefeller University NY, Teaching and Research, New York, United States of America In those years I participated to the daily work for the running of the UA6 experiment at CERN SPS accelerator in Geneva. I took part to the data taking and analysis of the, my specific interest was the electron pair production in the proton-proton and antiproton-proton collisions, this physics was accessible in particular through the instrument the TRD whose project and realization had been completely under my responsibility, with the help of the technical staff of CERN and University of Lausanne, the transition radiation detector performed in the expected useful way allowing the fast unambiguous identification of high energy electron pairs. In that time I also started to develop, together with the inventors group at the Brookhaven National Laboratories NY, the newly discovered silicon drift detectors SDD. My home base was the Rockefeller University in NY, the experiment was in Geneva where I took part in the activities of a group lead by Prof. Jack Steinberger for the study of various aspects of nuclear disarmament. Job title: Senior Fellow Exp. Phys. Division. From: 11/1983 To: 09/1986 Employer: CERN European Center for Nuclear Research, Research, Geneva, Switzerland The construction for the UA6 experiment, its commissioning and start-up was my main activity in that time. The experiment had to be installed in the tunnel of the Spps collider accelerator, my detector had to 6

7 be totally remotely controlled. The aim of the experiment was the comparison of the collisions of protons to protons and antiprotons to protons in a spectrometer detector which included an innovative and effective transition radiation detector (TRD), used to identify electron within the large background of other particles, this was my responsibility. The large TRD detector required an elaborated gas system for recycling and the purification of the xenon gas proportional chamber used as high efficiency detector of the low energy X-rays produced in the pure lithium radiator. I took care of different aspects of the experiment and the safety rules around it. The UA6 group formed of researchers of different nationalities in a very large international laboratory having a common ambitious scientific aim is a unique experience, the experiment was successful thanks also to the dedication and solidarity of each of us sharing everything while working days and nights for many years. It is a value in this sort of scientific experience. Job title: Scientist From: 05/1982 To: 11/1983 Employer: The Rockefeller University NY, Research & University Teaching, New York, United States of America Taking over this job at the end of the previous experiment at ETHZ, I took part to planning and prototyping for the start of the realization of the UA6 experiment and detector whose scientific objective was to study the direct photon production and high-energy electron pair in p-p and p-pbar collisions in the new accelerator system SppS at Cern. I was in charge for the study and the project of a transition radiation detector (TRD) for electron identification. The activity was in all directions including the prototyping of different aspects of the detector. A lot of technological challenges where part of this work, once more the knowledge of the Cern organization and technical capabilities (acquired during the thesis work), was a great help in the construction of a detector that had elaborated gas systems and used large amount of sensitive and dangerous lithium, here I had the opportunity to gather an important experience about safety and prevention. Home base in New York and main scientific activity in Geneva, a familiarity with the different aspects of the cultures across the Atlantic ocean which I greatly appreciated in those years. My collaboration with Rockefeller University lasted up to 1990 where having left for Italy I remained guest professor for some additional time. Job title: Research Scientist From: 05/1977 To: 04/1982 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Teaching & Research, Swiss Institute for Nuclear research Employer: SIN, Switzerland The work for the preparation of the whole aspects of the lay-out for my thesis experiment was completely under my responsibility and brought me to the European Center for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva in The experiment made use of; the first accelerator built there the Syncro Cyclotron, high pressure gas hydrogen target, electronics and computers very advanced for the time to study muonic atoms. Here I started my long lasting contact with the largest international laboratory, a contact that is continuing also today and has crossed all the different phases of my scientific experimental activity. CERN is an example of how a large variety of technicians administrative and scientists coming from all the countries of the world can contribute together to the progress of science but also build a milestone on the road of the sharing of cultures, scientific information and common progress. Immediately after my degree, while continuing the data analysis of the experiment of the thesis work on muonic hydrogen, I got an offer of ETHZ (Eidigenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich), for a research position on the field of Quantum Electro Dynamic QED tests in vacuum polarization with muonic atoms. The group used a high precision bent crystal spectrometer. In this position I had also, beside the experimental activity, teaching duties at the engineering department of ETH at about 50% time-share. The teaching occurred in the local German language. The test of QED performed through that experiment holds also today as the most precise at momentum transfer. I keep also today a factive interest in the challenge of this high precision physics. PUBLICATIONS I am co-author of more than 170 publications of which about 140 on refereed papers as it results from the following table the result was; eligible papers = 165 (published or arxiv E-prints). H index = 30. A complete list of publications can be seen at: 7

8 Here some data from ISI web of Knowledge. Below some of the most relevant and recent works, they reflect an activity in international collaborations like the PAMELA space satellite experiment or ALICE at LHC and in the development of advanced detectors whose applications include the medical and interdisciplinary one. The works reporting the cosmic ray results from the PAMELA satellite are the most cited one. An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies GeV Source: NATURE Volume: 458 Issue: 7238 Pages: DOI: /nature07942 Published: APR New Measurement of the Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio up to 100 GeV in the Cosmic Radiation Group Author(s): PAMELA Collaboration Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 102 Issue: 5 Article Number: DOI: /PhysRevLett Published: FEB PAMELA results animating the scientific debate. Cosmic-Ray Electron Flux Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between 1 and 625 GeV Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 106 Issue: 20 Article Number: 2011 DOI: /PhysRevLett Published: MAY PAMELA Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Proton and Helium Spectra Source: SCIENCE Volume: 332 Issue: 6025 Pages: DOI: /science Published: APR The instrument realized for the ALICE experiment has unique characteristics Characteristics of the ALICE Silicon Drift Detector Group Author(s): ALICE Collaboration Source: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A- ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 461 Issue: 1-3 Pages: DOI: /S (00)01189-X Published: APR Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at root s=0.9 and

9 TeV with ALICE at LHC Group Author(s): ALICE Collaboration Source: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C Volume: 68 Issue: 1-2 Pages: DOI: /epjc/s x Published: JUL 2010 PERFORMANCE OF THE UA6 LARGE-AREA SILICON DRIFT CHAMBER PROTOTYPE Author(s): VACCHI A; CASTOLDI A; CHINNICI S; et al. Source: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A- ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 306 Issue: 1-2 Pages: DOI: / (91)90318-K Published: AUG The recent developments around the silicon drift detectors are very promising Room-temperature spectroscopic performance of a very-large area silicon drift detector Source: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A- ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 633 Issue: 1 Pages: DOI: /j.nima Published: MAR Imaging performance of a large-area Silicon Drift Detector for X-ray astronomy Source: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A- ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 633 Issue: 1 Pages: DOI: /j.nima Published: MAR Design and performance tests of the calorimetric tract of a Compton Camera for smallanimals imaging Source: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Volume: 628 Issue: 1 Pages: DOI: /j.nima Published: FEB I belong to the Italian Physics Society SIF, in 2008 I was asked to coordinate, in the yearly meeting taking place in Genova, a whole session on themes linked to technology transfer and applied physics. Professional Summary 1) Personal Skills - work in team in international frameworks, - care for human interpersonal relation at all levels, - experiences in international and in national coordination responsibilities, - target oriented coordination up to completion of small and large research projects, - satellites and space borne technologies - planning and promoting of scientific institutional strategies and initiatives, - communication of scientific culture, - promoting constructive contact and knowledge within the local academic and political entity - good knowledge of the national and international research frames in experimental physics, - sensitivity and experience in EC research framework programs, - established experience in budget, personnel, administrative, contractual and patrimonial transactions matters. 2) Main recent scientific realizations. The PAMELA satellite experiment has given some very relevant results on Antimatter in cosmic rays, 9

10 The ALICE experiment is taking data at CERN_LHC with SDD drift detectors realized in Trieste. The same SDD are the principal detectors of the LOFT experiment, a phase-a ESA selected mission and in a development for medical imaging in a Compton Camera. 3) Experiences in the management of research organisms and agencies Executive Board INFN, Director of INFN Section of Trieste, Chairman of the CSN5 National Board evaluating and financing all INFN R&D Activities. 4) Knowledge of problems bound to the research staff, of the research programming activity, of the industrial relations bound to the National research system. In the three positions mentioned in the point 3), I faced a variety of problems bound to dealing with all the staff components technical, administrative and research. As Director of the Trieste Section I was officially employer of the staff, and dealt with the unions the staff representative, the research project responsible and the responsible of the various units. As a member of the Executive board I have followed and fostered the activities of the equal opportunities committees. 5) Research and leadership experiences in foreign institutions; As an experimental physics researcher, responsible of various developments; ETH Zurich; Rockefeller University N.Y. (USA); CERN Geneva (CH). 6) Evaluation of research experiences in National and International frames. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Bruno Kessler (FBK), Foundation in Trento, acting as a referent for the material and micro-system area. In the former position of chairman of the INFN board for the financing of the R&D projects CSN5 I took part to the formulation of the evaluation criteria of the first official evaluation of Infn and to various other evaluation iterations. Member of referee committee of the Star Experiment at BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA); Of a Technical Scientific Committee for the evaluation of the costs of the proposed experiments at the FAIR accelerator at GSI in Darmstadt (D). Reviewer in the frames of the Accelerator and Detector R&D Program of the Scientific User Facilities Division of the Office of Basic Sciences, Office of Sciences, DOE. Member of board of financing agencies of the neutrino factory experiment MICE at Rutherford laboratory UK. 7) Technology Transfer related experiences a seminar on cross institutional technology potentials few lessons on institutional technology and ways to bring them to the market As director of the Infn section of Trieste in the frames of the Technology Transfer actions I promoted a study of the resources available, within INFN, usable in an interaction with the enterprise. A fraction of this work can be downloaded from; 8) Out-reach experiences I am editorial director of the scientific out-reach journal of INFN named ASIMMETRIE, monograph on advanced research themes addressed to the INFN staff at large and to the high school students. Trieste 19/12/2011 Andrea Vacchi 10