EGO DIRECTOR – MASSIMO CARPINELLI

Massimo Carpinelli, physicist, is currently Full Professor at the Department of Physics ‘G. Occhialini’ of the University of Milan Bicocca and Director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO). He was Rector of the University of Sassari and member of the Council of the Conference of Italian University Rectors. He graduated and obtained his doctorate from the University of Pisa, where he was Associate Professor until 2006. He dedicated himself to research in elementary particle physics, in particular contributing to the ALEPH experiments at CERN in Geneva, BaBar at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. His research interests include the technological impact and interdisciplinary applications of fundamental physics, he was chairman of the Scientific Commission of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics dedicated to this field.