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Paolo Giubellino

Paolo Giubellino is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Paolo Giubellino rather than just read about it. In short: Paolo Giubellino (born 9 November 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist working on High-Energy Nuclear Collisions. 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.

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Reference excerpt

Paolo Giubellino (born 9 November 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist working on High-Energy Nuclear Collisions. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Awards 2000: Honorary title of "Profesor Invitado" of the Istituto de Ciencias y Tecnologias of the University of La Havana, Cuba 2010: Medal of the Division of Particles and Fields from the Mexican Physical Society 2012: Visitante Distinguido of the City of Puebla, Mexico 2012: "commendatore" for scientific merits from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano 2013: Honorable Mention of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic 2013: Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society. 2014: Lise Meitner Prize from the European Physical Society jointly with Johanna Stachel (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Germany), Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI, Germany) and Jürgen Schukraft (CERN). 2016: Member of the Academia Europaea 2016: Doctor Honoris Causa, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand 2016: Doctor Honoris Causa, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019: Corresponding Member, Accademia delle Scienze, Turin

Early life and education Paolo Giubellino, Italian, born in 1960, graduated in physics at the University of Turin in 1983 with 110/110 cum laude and special honorable mention and continued his studies as a Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2000 he was awarded the title of Doctor in Physics and Mathematics (Habilitation) by the Dubna Academic Council (Russia). He is married and has one son.

Research career

Paolo Giubellino has dedicated most of his scientific life to the Physics of High-Energy Heavy-Ion collisions, first in HELIOS, then in NA50, in the ALICE experiment and finally at GSI and FAIR. He joined the Turin branch of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in 1985. In 2006 he was promoted to "research director", the highest in the three-level INFN career. Giubellino has been responsible for several scientific programs within INF] and for NATO, INTAS and European Union grants. From 1990 to 1996 he was coordinator of the Group II (one of the five sections in which INFN research is organized) of the Turin branch of the INFN. From 1995 to 2000 and since 2007 he was responsible for the involvement of the Turin group in the ALICE Inner Tracking System project. Giubellino has participated in CERN heavy-ion programme from the early days of his career. He was in charge of the design, construction and operation of the SCI-PAD detector for the NA34/1 experiment as well as for the NA34/2 silicon pad detectors for the Ring Counters. In 1988 he joined the NA50 collaboration and worked in one of the fixed-target experiments. He was responsible in NA50 for the design, construction and commissioning of the silicon multiplicity detectors (MD). During his entire career, Giubellino has participated in several R&D projects directed to the development of silicon detectors and radiation tolerant electronics. He is also one of the founding fathers of the microelectronics group at INFN Turin. Giubellino has been involved in ALICE from the very first feasibility studies, and has later carried a number of responsibilities in the experiment, including Project Leader for the Inner Tracking System, Chair of Conference Committee, Upgrade Coordinator and, for six years, Deputy Spokesperson (July 2000 – September 2002 and August 2006 – December 2010). He was elected Spokesperson of the ALICE Collaboration for the first time in March 2010 and re-elected in July 2013. During this period he led the ALICE Collaboration to the preparation of an Upgrade proposal for experiment, spanning the years 2018 to 2025. The upgrade project, which will involve 163 Institutions from 40 countries, has been approved by the Large Hadron Collider Committee in September 2012. On 1 January 2017, Paolo Giubellino became the first joint scientific managing director of Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (FAIR GmbH) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH in Darmstadt. In addition, he has taken over the position of spokesperson of the management of FAIR and GSI. In September 2016, the FAIR Council and the GSI Supervisory Board announced their decision to appoint Giubellino. Since 1 January 2017 Giubellino is professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Science Management and Review Committees Paolo Giubellino serves in many scientific committees and panels in France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Mexico, Spain, the Czech Republic, South Korea and South Africa. He has been active in International collaboration, and has promoted and had key roles in several programs funded by the European Union, NATO and numerous bilateral agreements.

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Illustrations

Paolo Giubellino: Paolo Giubellino is awarded the Medal of the Division of Particle and Fields by the Mexican Physical Society — Paolo Giubellino is awarded the Medal of the Division of Particle and Fields by the Mexican Physical Society

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Paolo Giubellino

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Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Paolo Giubellino before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Paolo Giubellino ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Paolo Giubellino

In research: Paolo Giubellino appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Paolo Giubellino in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Paolo Giubellino is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1960 births, 21st-century Italian physicists, Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Paolo Giubellino outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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