Lucio Rossi - Short CV – October 2022
Lucio Rossi is Physics professor at the University of Milano from 1992. Active in large scale applied superconductivity for particle accelerators and detectors. In the first phase of his carrier, while in Milano (1980-2000) he contributed to the Superconducting Cyclotron Project (deigned in Milano and commissioned in Catania at INFN-LNS, of the this superconducting solenoid of the ZEUS detector for HERA in Hamburg. Then he was in charge of the design and construction of the first prototypes of the superconducting dipoles for the LHC project and of the first Barrel Toroid coils of ATLAS.
L. Rossi joined CERN in May 2001 to lead the Magnet & Superconductor Group for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project the largest scientific instruments, that has allowed the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS detector in 2012. The LHC superconducting magnets, operating at 8 tesla at 1.9 K temperature, are the backbone of the LHC, (50% of the total LHC material budget, i.e. 1700 MCHF just for material, figures of 2008) and constitute, still, the largest enterprise in superconductivity ever accomplished.
In 2010, he proposed, established and led till 2020 the ambitious LHC upgrade, called High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), to increase 10-fold the luminosity performance of the LHC. The HL-LHC project has a total budget of 1500 M€ and includes the development of cutting edge technologies, like new types of superconducting magnets, more powerful than the LHC ones, and large current (120 kA) superconducting links.
L. Rossi, after retirement from CERN in 2020, has resumed the position of professor in the Physics department at the University of Milano on the 1st of October 2020, working in association with INFN (the Italian Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics) on applied superconductivity for future accelerators, both for fundamental and applied physics (Medical Hadron therapy). Inthis two years has wan 6 competitive grants.
1. H2020-HITRIplus (EU program) in which he defined WP8-Superconducting Magnet Design (k€ 1065) and is National INFN Coordinator (k€357). 2021-2025
2. H2020-I.FAST (EU program) in which he has defined WP8-Innovative Superconducting Magnets (k€ 1700) is National INFN Coordinator (k€1015). 2021- 2025
3. SIG-Superconducting Ion Gantry, National INFN projet (call CSN5), of whch he proponent and natianl PI. (k€ 1600, of which k€600 are external funds). 2022-2025
4. ESABLIM (energy saving beam line magnets) national project with European Structural funds (Minister DM 1062 del 10/08/2021): 3-year contract for a young university researcher RTDA. (k€150 of which k€40 are external funds). 2022-2024.
5. HE-MuCol (EU program): Muon Collider Design Study, in which he coordinates WP8-Cooling Cell Integration (k€1300) and PI (principal investigator) of the University of Milano (k€500). 2023-2026
6. PNRR_IRIS, large Italian project nazionale funded by PNRR (Italian Next Generation Europe) for Research infrastructure with special call of the Minister: n. 3264 del 28-12-20221. IRIS è led by INFN via the laboratory LASA of Milano, regroup the CNR-SPIN Institute and fice Universities: Genova, Milano, Napoli, Salento and Salerno. In IRIS L. Rossi, besides being the proponent and the Project coordinator, is also INFN national responsible. The grant amounts to M€60 total (M€39.5 per INFN, over a few Units; M€33.7 sul polo Milano-LASA part INFN and part University). 2022-2025
L. Rossi is Coordinator of the INFN National Committee for the Science and Technology of Accelerators
L. Rossi received the IEEE- Council of Superconductivity Award for Applied Superconductivity in August 2007 in Philadelphia and is IEEE fellow since 2013. In the year 2012-13 has been distinguished speaker for the IEEE Council of Superconductivity. In May 2020 he has been awarded by the European Physics Society the EPS-AG/IPAC'20 Rolf Wideröe Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field. He received three prizes from his native town, Piacenza, as most distinguished citizen.
He has authored more than 200 publications in international journals and reviews. Has presented dozens of talk at the large International Conference (about ten as “invited plenary”). He is active in public outreach on science and large projects, developing themes like the relation between science and technology, “certainty and truth.”
He has recently published an autobiographical book: Lucio Rossi, La conoscenza è un‘avventura , edizioni Bietti, Milano, 2022. http://www.bietti.it/negozio/la-conoscenza-e-unavventura/