Paolo Giubellino | |
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Born | Italy | 9 November 1960
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Known for | Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, former Spokesperson of the ALICE Collaboration |
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Fields | Physics (Particle physics) |
Institutions | CERN, INFN, GSI, FAIR |
Paolo Giubellino (born 9 November 1960) is an experimental particle physicist working on High-Energy Nuclear Collisions.[1] Currently he is the joint Scientific Managing Director of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) and Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.[2]
Until 31 December 2016, Giubellino was Spokesperson of the ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment, an international collaboration of more than 1300 people from 163 scientific institutions from 40 countries.[3][4] He has carried several responsibility positions in the ALICE Collaboration since its creation in the early nineties, to be eventually elected Deputy Spokesperson from 2004 to 2010 and Spokesperson from 1 January 2011.[5] In 2011 at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City, he gave a talk The Little Bang in the Laboratory: Heavy Ions @ LHC with ALICE.[6] On 17 July 2013, he was elected for a second term as Spokesperson of ALICE.
Giubellino has dedicated most of his scientific life to the physics of high-energy heavy ion collisions, in which quark–gluon plasma a state of ultra dense and hot matter, as it prevails in the first microseconds of the life of our universe. Moreover, he has participated in numerous experimental projects first at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and, since the beginning of the program, at the Large Hadron Collider.