Luciano Maiani

Luciano Maiani è nato a Roma il 16 luglio, 1941.
Nazionalità: Repubblica di San Marino
1964 Laurea in physics
1965-1976 Ricercatore e Primo Ricercatore, Laboratori di Fisica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
1964-1966 Ricerca all’Università di Firenze, gruppo del Prof. Raoul Gatto.
1969-1970 Post Doc, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA, collabora con S.L. Glashow e J. Iliopoulos.
1970-1976 Commissione Tecnica del CNEN, Esperto del Ministero della Sanità in Sicurezza e Protezione nei Reattori Nucleari.
1976-2011 Professore Ordinario di Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica, dal 1984 di Fisica Teorica, Università di Roma, "La Sapienza”.
1980-1985 Presidente, Gruppo IV dell’INFN: Fisica Teorica.
1993-1998 Presidente dell’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
1995- 1997 Presidente del Comitato Tecnico Scientifico, Fondo Ricerca Applicata, presso il MURST.
1997 Presidente del CERN Council, CERN, Geneva.
1999-2003 Direttore Generale, CERN, Geneva.
2008-2011 Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).
2011- Presidente dello Scientific Council, ICTP, Trieste.
2012-2015 Presidente della Commissione Grandi Rischi, Presidenza del Consiglio, Italia.

Dottore Honoris Causa: Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille (France); San Petersburg (Russia) ; Bratislava (Slovakia); Warsaw (Poland); Benemerita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla (Mexico).

Affiliazioni:  Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio Nazionale ; Fellow, American Physical Society; Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL ; The Russian Academy of Sciences; Academia Europaea Scienze ed Arti ; Accademia delle Scienze di Torino

Premi:
1980 Medaglia Matteucci, Accademia Nazionale dei XL
1987 "J.J. Sakurai" Prize, American Physical Society
2001 Medaglia d’Oro ai Benemeriti della Scienza e della Cultura, Presidente della Repubblica Italiana
2003 Premio Enrico Fermi, Società Italiana di Fisica
2007 Medaglia Dirac, ICTP Trieste
2009 Orden do Merito José Bonifacio, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
2011 The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
2011, European Physical Society
2014 Premio “Bruno Pontecorvo”, JINR Dubna, Russia

Scientific Results

Luciano Maiani is author or coauthor of over 200 scientific publications on the theory of Elementary Particles that have received until now more than 14 000 citations. He is author of several Lecture Notes and Rapporteur Talks. As from 2004, he is working in Meson Spectroscopy and in the analysis of signatures for the formation of Quark Gluon Plasma in Heavy ion Collisions. The most important scientific result of Luciano Maiani is the prediction of existence and properties of charmed particles (with S. L. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, 1970) as a necessary condition to avoid the unobserved flavour changing neutral currents. The proposed GIM mechanism has been crucial to the formulation of a gauge theory of the Electroweak Interactions. Charmed particles have been discovered a few years later (1976) with properties very close to those anticipated in the original GIM paper.

Science Management and International

Collaboration As President of INFN, has promoted approval and the first construction phases of the VIRGO Observatory for Gravitational Waves, in collaboration with the CNRS (France). During is mandate at CERN as Director General, the construction of the Large Hadron Collider has been carried on to a very advanced stage, with the closing of LEP, the completion of the civil works, the stipulation of the main contracts for the superconducting magnets, the final definition of the cost and the subsequent re-definiton of CERN’s long term plan and, finally, the definition of a long term loan from the European Investment Bank which has allowed to overcome the peak in the LHC expenditure with a constant annual budget. In the same period, the Long Base-Line Neutrino Beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso Laboratories, CNGS, some 730 kilometers south of Geneva has been approved and developed at CERN-INFN. The beam has become operational in summer 2006. On May 31, 2010, the OPERA Collaboration in Gran Sasso has announced one neutrino-tau event produced by the muonic neutrinos emitted at CERN, giving the first direct evidence of neutrino oscillation ever observed. During his term as president of CNR has reorganized the activities of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), previously suppressed and located inside CNR; has promoted an in-depth evaluation of the more than hundred CNR Institutes and supervised the attribution of more than eighty new Institute directorships; has coordinated the writing of the new regulations (Statuto).

From 2005 to 2009, has coordinated the HELEN Project (High Energy physics Latinoamerican European Network), supported by the European Commission_ALFA Program (see http://www.roma1.infn.it/exp/helen/) and dedicated to the training of young physicists from Europe and Latin America. Activities in Europe were focused on CERN, DESY(Hamburg) and Laboratori del Gran Sasso (Italy). In Latin America on the Pierre Auger Observatory (Argentina) for the observation of the very high energy cosmic rays, which became operational in 2005.

Participation in HELEN was shared between 22 Universities and Research Institutions in 8 Countries in Latin America, and between 17 Universities and Institutions and 6 Countries in Europe. Today, he is coordinating a new project of Latin America-Europe exchange called EPLANET (European Particle physics LatinoAmerican NETwork) within the Marie Curie Program (People) of FP7.