Fernando Ferroni appointed as the new INFN president
Fernando Ferroni was appointed the president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [INFN], by a ministerial decree, on 26 October this year. Ferroni replaces former head Roberto Petronzio, who led the INFN for the last seven years.
The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – the National Institute for Nuclear Physics – was founded in 1951 to oversee astroparticle, nuclear and particle physics in Italy. With sections in four of Italy’s national laboratories and most major Italian Universities, the INFN acts as the main funding agency for high energy physics in Italy, and engages in collaborations with many laboratories worldwide, including CERN and Fermilab.
Ferroni is currently a professor at the University La Sapienza, Rome, where he also started his physics career when he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1975. Ferroni has worked at both CERN – on the neutrino and L3 experiments – and at SLAC’s BaBar experiment, where he studied CP violation in the quark beauty decay.
Currently, Ferroni is working at the INFN’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, researching the neutrino-less double beta decay at the CUORE Experiment and on the LUCIFER project. The author of over 700 scientific papers, Ferroni has also sat on a number of international high energy physics committees.
