Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Romanino
November 2014
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Andrea Romanino
October 9, 1967
Imperia, Italy
Italian
Male
Positions
15.01.2014–15.12.2014: Scientific consultant for ICTP, Trieste, Italy
01.11.2014–:
Full professor at SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy
05.04.2005–31.10.2014: Associate professor at SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy
01.01.2003–31.03.2005: CERN Theory Division Fellow and Associate
23.11.2001–31.12.2002: “Ricercatore TD” (assistant professor) at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
01.10.2000–21.11.2001: Research associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
01.10.1998–30.09.2000: Postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford, UK
01.07.1997–30.09.1998: INFN postdoctoral fellowship for theoretical physicists at the Department of Physics
of the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
01.01.1997–30.06.1997: University of Pisa fellowship for advanced studies abroad, at the Technische Universität München
01.11.1993–31.10.1996: Ph.D. student at the University of Pisa
20.05.1993–07.03.1994: INFN postgraduate fellowship at the Department of Physics of the University of
Genova, Italy
Scientific ablitation as Full Professor
Obtained at the first opening (2012, DD n. 222/2012). The committee concluded its
works on November 23, 2013. The proceedings were validated and published on January
8, 2014. The abilitation is valid from January 8, 2014, to January 8, 2018.
Visiting Scientist Positions:
19.10.1998–18.12.1998: Invited guest of the group of Prof. M. Lindner at the Technische Universität München.
01.05.1998–22.07.1998: Invited guest of the group of Prof. A.J. Buras at the Technische Universität München.
01.08.2013–31.08.2013: Invited guest of the Département de Physique Théorique of CNRS at the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb of the Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France.
Education
Ph.D. in Physics University of Pisa, degree conferred on July 10, 1997.
Thesis title: “Unificazione e fisica del sapore” (Unification and flavour physics)
Supervisor: Prof. R. Barbieri
Laurea in physics University of Genova, degree obtained on December 5, 1992
Thesis title: “Alcuni aspetti fenomenologici della rinormalizzazione della teoria elettrodebole” (A few phenomenological aspects of the renormalizazion of the electroweak theory)
Supervisors: Prof. C.M. Becchi and Prof. G. Ridolfi.
Grade: 110/110 “cum laude”.
Laurea courses attended and grades:
Esperimentazioni di Fisica I:
Analisi Matematica I:
Geometria I:
Fisica Generale I:
Meccanica Razionale:
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Esperimentazioni di Fisica II:
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Metodi Matematica della Fisica:
Fisica Matematica:
Struttura della materia:
Laboratorio di Fisica II:
Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica:
Fisica Teorica:
Fisica Nucleare:
Fisica delle Particelle Elementari:
Fisica dello Stato Solido:
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June 10, 1987
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November 19, 1987
June 14, 1988
June 16, 1988
October 11, 1988
November 9, 1988
June 9, 1989
November 8, 1989
March 5, 1990
April 11, 1990
May 17, 1990
February 27, 1991
March 22, 1991
July 5, 1991
November 5, 1992
General Certificate of education:
At the Liceo Scientifico Statale “G.P. Vieusseux”, Imperia, Italy
Degree obtained on July 17, 1986
Grade: 60/60.
Honours and certificates
• Merit certificate for the results acheived during the last year of Liceo, January 10, 1987.
• Certificate of progress of the Oxford House College (London school of english) on August 24, 1990.
Level of English attained: beginner.
Research Interests
Theory and phenomenology of fundamental interactions. In particular:
• Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
• Flavour physics and the origin of masses, neutrino models and phenomenology
• Aspects of astroparticle physics and cosmology (supersymmetric dark matter and baryon asymmetry)
Publications
Journals:
1. P. Ciafaloni, A. Romanino, and A. Strumia, “Lepton flavor violations in SO(10) with large tan β,”
Nucl. Phys. B458 (1996) 3–22, hep-ph/9507379.
2. R. Barbieri, A. Romanino, and A. Strumia, “Electric dipole moments as signals of supersymmetric
unification,” Phys. Lett. B369 (1996) 283–288, hep-ph/9511305.
3. R. Barbieri, A. Romanino, and A. Strumia, “On axion-mediated macroscopic forces again,” Phys. Lett.
B387 (1996) 310–314, hep-ph/9605368.
4. R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, S. Raby, and A. Romanino, “Unified theories with U(2) flavor symmetry,” Nucl.
Phys. B493 (1997) 3–26, hep-ph/9610449.
5. A. Romanino and A. Strumia, “Electric dipole moments from Yukawa phases in supersymmetric theories,” Nucl. Phys. B490 (1997) 3–18, hep-ph/9610485.
6. G. Bhattacharyya and A. Romanino, “Naturalness constraints on gauge-mediated supersymmetry
breaking models,” Phys. Rev. D55 (1997) 7015–7019, hep-ph/9611243.
7. R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, and A. Romanino, “Consequences of a U(2) flavour symmetry,” Phys. Lett.
B401 (1997) 47–53, hep-ph/9702315.
8. P. Ciafaloni, A. Romanino, and A. Strumia, “Two-loop QCD corrections to charged-Higgs-mediated
b → sγ decay,” Nucl. Phys. B524 (1998) 361, hep-ph/9710312.
9. A. J. Buras, A. Romanino, and L. Silvestrini, “K → πν ν̄: A model independent analysis and supersymmetry,” Nucl. Phys. B520 (1998) 3, hep-ph/9712398.
10. L. Giusti, A. Romanino, and A. Strumia, “Natural ranges of supersymmetric signals,” Nucl. Phys.
B550 (1999) 3, hep-ph/9811386.
11. R. Barbieri, L. Giusti, L. J. Hall, and A. Romanino, “Fermion masses and symmetry breaking of a
U(2) flavour symmetry,” Nucl. Phys. B550 (1999) 32, hep-ph/9812239.
12. R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, and A. Romanino, “Precise tests of a quark mass texture,” Nucl. Phys. B551
(1999) 93, hep-ph/9812384.
13. K. Dick, M. Freund, M. Lindner, and A. Romanino, “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations,” Nucl.
Phys. B562 (1999) 29, hep-ph/9903308.
14. R. Barbieri, P. Creminelli, and A. Romanino, “Neutrino mixings from a U(2) flavour symmetry,” Nucl.
Phys. B559 (1999) 17, hep-ph/9903460.
15. A. J. Buras, G. Colangelo, G. Isidori, A. Romanino, and L. Silvestrini, “Connections between 0 / and
rare kaon decays in supersymmetry,” Nucl. Phys. B566 (2000) 3, hep-ph/9908371.
16. A. Romanino, “Measuring CP-violation with a neutrino factory,” Nucl. Phys. B574 (2000) 675,
hep-ph/9909425.
17. A. Romanino and A. Strumia, “Are heavy scalars natural in minimal supergravity?,” Phys. Lett. B487
(2000) 165, hep-ph/9912301.
18. M. Freund, M. Lindner, S. T. Petcov, and A. Romanino, “Testing matter effects in very long baseline
neutrino oscillation experiments,” Nucl. Phys. B578 (2000) 27, hep-ph/9912457.
19. A. Lukas and A. Romanino, “A brane-world explanation of the KARMEN anomaly,” hep-ph/0004130.
20. A. Blondel et al., “The neutrino factory: Beam and experiments,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A451 (2000)
102–122.
21. A. Lukas, P. Ramond, A. Romanino, and G. G. Ross, “Solar neutrino oscillation from large extra
dimensions,” Phys. Lett. B495 (2000) 136–146, hep-ph/0008049.
22. A. Lukas, P. Ramond, A. Romanino, and G. G. Ross, “Neutrino masses and mixing in brane-world
theories,” JHEP 04 (2001) 010, hep-ph/0011295.
23. R. G. Roberts, A. Romanino, G. G. Ross, and L. Velasco-Sevilla, “Precision test of a fermion mass
texture,” Nucl. Phys. B615 (2001) 358–384, hep-ph/0104088.
24. A. Masiero, M. Piai, A. Romanino, and L. Silvestrini, “Signals of supersymmetric flavor models in B
physics,” Phys. Rev. D64 (2001) 075005, hep-ph/0104101.
25. C. Ankenbrandt, G. Barenboim, M. Carena, J. Carpenter, W. Chou, et al., “Physics Study Group
report on physics potential at FNAL with stronger proton sources,”.
26. A. Romanino and A. Strumia, “Electron and muon electric dipoles in supersymmetric scenarios,” Nucl.
Phys. B622 (2002) 73–94, hep-ph/0108275.
27. T. Adams et al., “E1 working group summary: Neutrino factories and muon colliders,” eConf C010630
(2001) E1001, hep-ph/0111030.
28. M. Campanelli and A. Romanino, “Effects of new physics in neutrino oscillations in matter,” Phys.
Rev. D66 (2002) 113001, hep-ph/0207350.
29. G. Cacciapaglia, M. Cirelli, Y. Lin, and A. Romanino, “Bulk neutrinos and core collapse supernovae,”
Phys. Rev. D67 (2003) 053001, hep-ph/0209063.
30. M. Apollonio et al., “Oscillation physics with a neutrino factory,” hep-ph/0210192.
31. R. Barbieri, T. Hambye, and A. Romanino, “Natural relations among physical observables in the
neutrino mass matrix,” JHEP 03 (2003) 017, hep-ph/0302118.
32. G. Cacciapaglia, M. Cirelli, and A. Romanino, “Signatures of supernova neutrino oscillations into extra
dimensions,” Phys. Rev. D68 (2003) 033013, hep-ph/0302246.
33. A. Romanino, “Charged lepton contributions to the solar neutrino mixing and θ13 ,” Phys. Rev. D70
(2004) 013003, hep-ph/0402258.
34. G. F. Giudice and A. Romanino, “Split Supersymmetry,” Nucl. Phys. B699 (2004) 65–89, hepph/0406088.
35. N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. F. Giudice, and A. Romanino, “Aspects of split supersymmetry,”
Nucl. Phys. B709 (2005) 3–46, hep-ph/0409232.
36. G. F. Giudice and A. Romanino, “Electric dipole moments in split supersymmetry,” Phys. Lett. B634
(2006) 307–314, hep-ph/0510197.
37. L. Ferretti, S. F. King, and A. Romanino, “Flavour from accidental symmetries,” JHEP 11 (2006) 078,
hep-ph/0609047.
38. ISS Physics Working Group Collaboration, A. Bandyopadhyay et al., “Physics at a future Neutrino
Factory and super-beam facility,” Rept.Prog.Phys. 72 (2009) 106201, 0710.4947.
39. M. Raidal, A. van der Schaaf, I. Bigi, M. Mangano, Y. K. Semertzidis, et al., “Flavour physics of
leptons and dipole moments,” Eur.Phys.J. C57 (2008) 13–182, 0801.1826.
40. M. Frigerio, P. Hosteins, S. Lavignac, and A. Romanino, “A New, direct link between the baryon
asymmetry and neutrino masses,” Nucl.Phys. B806 (2009) 84–102, 0804.0801.
41. L. Calibbi, L. Ferretti, A. Romanino, and R. Ziegler, “Consequences of a unified, anarchical model of
fermion masses and mixings,” JHEP 0903 (2009) 031, 0812.0087.
42. L. Calibbi, L. Ferretti, A. Romanino, and R. Ziegler, “Gauge coupling unification, the GUT scale, and
magic fields,” Phys.Lett. B672 (2009) 152–157, 0812.0342.
43. G. F. Giudice, M. Nardecchia, and A. Romanino, “Hierarchical Soft Terms and Flavor Physics,”
Nucl.Phys. B813 (2009) 156–173, 0812.3610.
44. M. Nardecchia, A. Romanino, and R. Ziegler, “Tree Level Gauge Mediation,” JHEP 0911 (2009) 112,
0909.3058.
45. L. Calibbi, M. Frigerio, S. Lavignac, and A. Romanino, “Flavour violation in supersymmetric SO(10)
unification with a type II seesaw mechanism,” JHEP 0912 (2009) 057, 0910.0377.
46. M. Nardecchia, A. Romanino, and R. Ziegler, “General Aspects of Tree Level Gauge Mediation,” JHEP
1003 (2010) 024, 0912.5482.
47. D. Marzocca, S. T. Petcov, A. Romanino, and M. Spinrath, “Sizeable θ13 from the Charged Lepton
Sector in SU(5), (Tri-)Bimaximal Neutrino Mixing and Dirac CP Violation,” JHEP 1111 (2011) 009,
1108.0614.
48. M. Monaco, M. Nardecchia, A. Romanino, and R. Ziegler, “Extended Tree-Level Gauge Mediation,”
JHEP 1110 (2011) 022, 1108.1706.
49. F. Caracciolo and A. Romanino, “Simple and direct communication of dynamical supersymmetry
breaking,” JHEP 1212 (2012) 109, 1207.5376.
50. D. Marzocca, S. Petcov, A. Romanino, and M. Sevilla, “Nonzero |Ue3 | from Charged Lepton Corrections
and the Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing Angle,” JHEP 1305 (2013) 073, 1302.0423.
51. M. Monaco, M. Pierini, A. Romanino, and M. Spinrath, “Phenomenology of Minimal Unified Tree
Level Gauge Mediation at the LHC,” JHEP 07 (2013) 078, 1302.1305.
52. L. Di Luzio, M. Nardecchia, and A. Romanino, “A framework for baryonic R-parity violation in grand
unified theories,” Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 115008, 1305.7034.
Proceedings
53. A. Romanino, “Electric dipole moments in supersymmetric theories,” Surveys High Energ. Phys. 10
(1997) 383, hep-ph/9604361.
54. R. Barbieri, A. Romanino, and L. J. Hall, “An SU(5)×U(2) theory of fermion masses and mixings,”
Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 52A (1997) 141–147.
55. A. Romanino, “Unified theories of flavour with U(2) as horizontal group,” in Masses of fundamental
particles: Cargese 1996, M. Levy, J. Iliopoulos, R. Gastmans, and J.-M. Gerard, eds., vol. 363 of
NATO ASI Series B, Physics. Plenum Press, 1997.
56. R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, and A. Romanino, “Flavour physics, flavor symmetries, supersymmetry and
unification,” Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 59 (1997) 217–222.
57. R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, and A. Romanino, “Signals of Flavour Physics from Supersymmetry,” in FlavorChanging Neutral Currents: Present and Future Studies, D. B. Cline, ed. World Scientific, 1997.
58. G. Bhattacharyya and A. Romanino, “Naturalness in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario,” in Proceedings of the XXXIInd Rencontres de Moriond: Electroweak Interactions and Unified
theories, J. Tran Thanh Van, ed. Éditions Frontières, 1997.
59. A. Romanino, “Phenomenological analysis of a quark mass texture,” in Proceedings of the European
Network Meeting On Physics Beyond The Standard Model, I. Antoniadis, A. Masiero, and S. Pastor,
eds., JHEP conference proceedings. SISSA, Trieste, Italy, Feb., 1999.
60. A. Romanino, “Tests of quark mass textures,” in Proceedings of the XXXIVth Rencontres de Moriond:
Electroweak Interactions and Unified theories. 1999.
61. A. Romanino, “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations.” Proceedings of the XIth Rencontres de Blois:
Frontiers of Matter, Blois, France, June 27–July 3, 1999.
62. A. Romanino, “Experimental implications of leptonic CP-violation,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A451
(2000) 42–50.
63. M. Freund, M. Lindner, S. T. Petcov, and A. Romanino, “Very long baseline neutrino oscillation
experiments and the MSW effect,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A451 (2000) 18–35.
64. K. Dick, M. Freund, M. Lindner, and A. Romanino, “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations: Theory,”.
Prepared for 6th SFB-375 Ringberg Workshop: Astroteilchenphysik, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 11-15 Oct 1999.
65. M. Freund, K. Dick, M. Lindner, and A. Romanino, “Phenomenological analysis of CP-violation in neutrino oscillation experiments,”. Prepared for 6th SFB-375 Ringberg Workshop: Astroteilchenphysik,
Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 11-15 Oct 1999.
66. A. Romanino, “Tests of quark mass textures,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A16S1B (2001) 576–578.
67. A. Lukas, P. Ramond, A. Romanino, and G. G. Ross, “Brane-bulk neutrino oscillations,” Int. J. Mod.
Phys. A16S1C (2001) 934–936.
68. M. Campanelli and A. Romanino, “Effects of new physics in neutrino oscillations in matter,” J. Phys.
G29 (2003) 1861–1864.
69. A. Romanino, “Ignoring the hierarchy problem,”. Prepared for 19th Rencontres de Physique de la
Vallee d’Aoste: Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 27 Feb–5
Mar 2005.
70. A. Romanino, “Scenarios for LHC physics,”. Prepared for the IV Workshop Italiano sulla Fisica di
ATLAS e CMS, Bologna, Italy, 23–25 Nov 2006.
71. A. Romanino, “LHC and neutrino physics,”. Prepared for the 12th International Workshop on Neutrinos Telescopes: Twenty Years after the Supernova 1987A Neutrino Bursts Discovery.
72. A. Romanino, “Leptogenesis with type II seesaw in SO(10),” Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 188 (2009) 332–
335.
73. G. F. Giudice, M. Nardecchia, and A. Romanino, “SUSY contributions to φBs from hierarchical
sfermions,” J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 171 (2009) 012059.
74. A. Romanino, “The Standard model of particle physics,” Izvestiya Vuzov. Fizika. 53 (2009) 3–19.
75. A. Romanino, “A split SM embedding in SO(10), minimal type-II seesaw, and tree-level gauge mediation,”. Prepared for the Proceedings of the BUE-CTP International Conference on Neutrino Physics
in the LHC Era, Luxor, Egypt, November 15–19, 2009.
76. A. Romanino, “Neutrino Physics,” in 2010 European School of High-Energy Physics, C. Grojean and
M. Spiropulu, eds., CERN Yellow Reports. 2012. 1201.6158.
Abstracts
77. A. Romanino, “Flavour models for neutrino physics”. Prepared for 6th SFB-375 Ringberg Workshop:
Astroteilchenphysik, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 11-15 Oct 1999.
Impact of the research activity
• Author of 76 scientific publications, out of which 52 original articles on refereed international journals.
• Bibliometric data according to Spires (the standard database for particle physics) on March 17,
2014 : 1 renowned paper (more than 500 citations), 2 famous papers (more than 250 citations), 4397
citations overall, 69.8 citations per paper, h-index 34.
• Included in the list of “Top Italian Scientist” by VIA-Academy (based on bibliometric data), see
http://www.topitalianscientists.org/.
• The paper“Split Supersymmetry”, Nucl. Phys. B699 (2004) 65–89, now with 500+ citations, was identified as an“Emerging Research Front”by ESI-Topics (Thomson), see http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/2005/october05AndreaRomanino.html.
• INFN Fubini prize for the best PhD thesis won in 2010 by Robert Ziegler under my supervision.
• All the 6 papers submitted as my contribution to the evaluation of SISSA and INFN at the VQR
2004–2010 evaluation of Italian research got top marks (1, excellent).
The six papers VQR 2004–2010 (Italian research quality evaluation) results: 8 articles have been
evaluated (5 more than the standard), each of them got the top mark (1, excellent).
• Abilitated for full professor position at the ASN (national scientific abilitation) 2012 (first round of
abilitation after the University reform), based also on an evaluation of the research activity.
Scientific responsibilities in research projects
• Scientific coordinator of the European project FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF “The physics of flavor in visible
and dark sectors” from May 10, 2010 to January 9, 2011.
• Coordinator of the SISSA unit of the PRIN 2008 MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University,
and Research) project 2008XM9HLM “Fundamental interactions in view of the Large Hadron Collider
and of astro-particle physics” (March 22, 2010–September 22, 2012).
• Coordinator of the SISSA sub-unit of the Cofin project “Beyond the Standard Model Physics in the
era of the Large Hadron Collider” (February 9, 2007–February 9, 2009).
Teaching
Institutional courses
• Postgraduate course “Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, at the International School for Advanced
Studies (SISSA), since the academic year 2005-2006.
• “Introduction to supersymmetry”, postgraduate mini-course for students of the Astroparticle PhD at
SISSA, since the academic year 2005-2006.
• “Physics beyond the Standard Model”, mini-course (8 lectures) held as part of the PhD in Physics of
the University of Pavia, April 23–27, 2012.
• Postgraduate Lecture Course “SUSY and Beyond”, University of Oxford, Trinity term 2000: “Essential
theory (2nd part)”, May 19 and 26, June 2 2000.
• “Neutrinos”, lecture given as part of the University of Oxford Postgraduate course on Supersymmetry,
Oxford, UK, Trinity term 1999.
Courses at international physics schools
• “Theory of lepton mixing”, series of lectures at the LNF Spring School, Frascati, Italy, May 19–23,
2003.
• “Electroweak physics at the LHC”, series of lectures at the Italo-Hellenic School of Physics 2005 The
Physics of LHC: Theoretical tools and experimental challenges, Martignano, Lecce, Italy, June 9–14,
2005.
• “Flavor and neutrinos”, series of lectures at the XIV Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica, Parma,
Italy, August 29–September 9, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, series of lectures at the 19’th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spåtind 2006),
Spåtind, Norway, January 4–10, 2006.
• “Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model”, series of lectures at the Parma International
School of Theoretical Physics (SNFT07), Parma, Italy, September 3–8, 2007.
• “Theory of neutrino masses”, series of lectures at the III International Pontecorvo Neutrino Physics
School, Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, September 16–26, 2007.
• “Theory of neutrino masses”, series of lectures at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR),
Dubna, Russia, November 4–17, 2007.
• “Supersymmetry”, lectures at the Baikal summer JINR-ISU school, Bol’shie Koty, Russia, July 20–27,
2008.
• “Neutrino masses”, lectures at the Baikal summer JINR-ISU school, Bol’shie Koty, Irkutsk, Siberia,
Russia, July 20–27, 2008.
• “(Lepton) Flavor Violation as signal for new physics”, lectures held at the XIV LNF Spring School
“Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, INFN National Laboratories in
Frascati, Frascati, Italy, May 11–15, 2009.
• “The Standard Model of Particle Physics”, lectures at the International Baikal Summer School on
Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, Bol’shie Koty, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia,
July 23–30, 2009.
• “Neutrino Physics”, lectures held at the 2010 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2010),
Raseborg, Finland, Jun2 20–July 3, 2010.
• “Neutrino Physics”, lectures held at CERN’s Summer Student Lecture Programme, CERN, Switzerland,
July 5–August 20, 2010.
• “Supersymmetry”, lectures given at the 3rd Winter School Geometry and Physics, CP3 origins, Odense,
Denmark, November 1–5, 2010.
• “Neutrino Physics”, 3 lectures held on August 3, 4, 5, 2011 at the CERN Summer Student Program,
CERN, Switzerland, July 4–August 19, 2011.
• “BSM physics”, 5 lectures held at the LHCPhenoNet Winter School 2012, Ascona, Switzerland, January
22–29, 2012.
• “The Standard Model and Beyond”, 6 lectures at the BUSSTEPP 2012 Summer School, Durham
University, Durham, UK, September 2–14, 2012.
• “The Standard Model and Beyond”, 5 lectures at the BUSSTEPP 2013 Summer School, University of
Sussex, Brighton, UK, September 1–13, 2013.
PhD students at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
• Marco Cirelli
Academic years: 2000/01 to 2002/03
Postdocs: Yale University (CT, USA) and CEA-Saclay (France)
Permanent position: CNRS Researcher (CR2), IPhT at CEA/Saclay (France)
Diploma Course students at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
• Daniele Spier
Moreira Alves
Academic year: 2005/06
PhD: Stanford University (CA, USA)
Postdocs: Fermilab (IL, USA)
PhD students at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
• Luca Ferretti
Academic years: 2004/05 to 2007/08
PhD: Elementary Particle Theory
Postdoc: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Collège de
France and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France)
• Robert Ziegler
Academic years: 2006/07 to 2009/10
PhD: Elementary Particle Theory
Postdoc: TUM Monaco, Excellence cluster ”Origin and Structure of the Universe”
Prizes: INFN Fubini prize for the best PhD thesis
• Marco Nardecchia
Academic years: 2006/07 to 2009/10
PhD: Astroparticle Physics
Postdoc: CP3 -Origins Center, University of Southern Denmark
• Maurizio Monaco
Academic years: 2008/09 to 2011/12
PhD: Elementary Particle Theory
Permanent position: Assicurazioni Generali (data mining and crunching for the
pricing in the motor sector)
• Francesco Caracciolo Academic years: from 2009/10
PhD: Elementary Particle Theory
Postdoc: accepted Syracuse University (NY, USA)
Deceased
• David Marzocca
Academic years: from 2010/11
PhD: Astroparticle Physics
Postdoc: accepted University of Zurich, Switzerland
Students summary data
• Overall number of students: 8. Overall number of year*student (counting first years): 26.
• Number of students at any given time since at SISSA (counting their first year). 2005/06: 2. 2006/07:
3. 2007/08: 3. 2008/09: 3. 2009/10: 4. 2010/11: 3. 2011/12: 3. 2012/13: 2. 2013/14: 1.
• Occupation of students. Permanent positions: 2. Postdoc/temporary positions: 4. Current PhD
students: 1. Unemployed: 0. Deceased: 1.
In addition
• Private lectures to university and secondary school students.
• Temporary teaching of Matematics and Physics at the Liceo Scientifico “G.P. Vieusseux”, Imperia,
Italy, May 13–23, 1992.
• “Particle Physics”, lecture given at the Liceo Scientifico “G.P. Vieusseux”, Imperia, Italy, June 4, 1994.
• “Special relativity”, series of lectures given at the Liceo Scientifico “G.P. Vieusseux”, Imperia, Italy,
March 10, 24 and April 7, 1995.
Referee activities and membership of scientific committees
• Member of the scientific committee of the 2010 (last) edition of the Consolider-Ingenio Program of
the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The program provided “five years of strategic funding
to first-class research initiatives that seek to significantly advance investigators’ current knowledge of
an existing area in science or technology, or to pursue cutting edge explorations into new and original
areas of research”. Grants have been set at approximately 5 million euros per program for a total
budget of about 50 million euros. See http://www.ingenio2010.es/.
• Member of the scientific committee of the 2009 edition of the Consolider-Ingenio Program of the
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
• Referee of the 2008 edition of the Consolider Program of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education.
• Referee in 2008 for the Odysseus Programme of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for top
scientists, internationally recognised as prominent in their field, occupying a position at a university
abroad who apply to lead a research team with a performant staff, various postdoctoral researchers
and a number of PhD students. The total value of a project ranges from 2 to 7.5 million euros for a
five year period. See http://www.fwo.be/.
• Member of the Editorial Board of ISRN High Energy Physics.
• Referee for all major international particle physics journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review,
Nuclear Physics, Physics Letters, JHEP, EPJC, and others (Journal of Physics G).
Academic responsibilities
• Member of the Academic Senate of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) from May
21, 2012
• Member of the Board of Directors of SISSA from November 2007 to October 2010
• Member of the Board of Directors of SISSA from December 9, 2005 to October 2007
• SISSA Director’s delegate for research from July 15, 2011 (member of the working group on Horizon
2020 within the research commission of CRUI)
• SISSA Director’s delegate for e-learning from July 7 2006 to October 2010
• Member of the “Consiglio Direttivo” of the “Consorzio per l’incremento degli studi e delle ricerche dei
dipartimenti di fisica dell’università di Trieste” from June 20, 2011
• Coordinator of the Astroparticle curriculum at SISSA from September 27, 2005 to October 31, 2007
• Member of the committee for the assessment of financial impact and benefits of the SISSA undergraduate fellowships, June–July 2013.
• Member of the committee on “fondo di incentivazione e progressione orizzontale (art. 58, 3◦ c., CCNL)”
at SISSA from October 27, 2006 to June 28, 2011
• Member of the “commissione per gli interventi a carattere assistenziale a favore del personale dipendente, degli allievi, dei borsisti di post-dottorato e degli assegnisti di ricerca” of SISSA from November
17, 2010 to December 31, 2011
• Member of the committee on the Joint PhD SISSA/ICTP during its whole mandate from November
2010 to February 2011
• Member of the “commissione Miramare-ICTP” at SISSA during its whole mandate from June to
October 2010
• Member of the “commissione bilancio” (budget committee) of SISSA for the budgets 2009 and 2010
• Member of the “commissione servizi logistici” for the “commissione edilizia” in view of the moving of
SISSA to the new building during its whole mandate from January 2008 to October 2010
• Member of the “commissione attribuzione spazi ” in view of the moving of SISSA to the new building
during its whole mandate from September 2008 to April 2009
• Member of the committee on postdoc salaries at SISSA during its whole mandate in 2007 and 2008
Conference and conference session organization
• Convenor of the “Neutrino Oscillations from pi, mu and reactor beams” group in the E1 Working
Group on Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders and organizer of the common session with the P2
Working Group on Flavor Physics at Snowmass 2001 — the future of particle physics, Snowmass
Village, Colorado, June 30–July 21, 2001.
• Convenor of the “New Physics” session at the Incontri sulla Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE Parma
2002), Parma, Italy, April 3–5, 2002. Summary talk of the session.
• Convenor of the “Neutrinos” session at the 32nd Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 04),
Beijing, China, August 16–22, 2004.
• Convenor of the “New Physics” session at IFAE, Catania, Italy, March 30–April 2, 2005.
• Organizer of the meeting of the ENTApP Visitor Programme and Workshop on Dark Matter held at
SISSA, Trieste, October 12–21, 2005.
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Workshop sui Monte Carlo, la Fisica e le simulazioni a LHC,
LNF, Frascati, Italy, 2006–2007.
• Convenor ot the “Flavour Physics and CP Violation” session at The 2007 Europhysics Conference on
High Energy Physics (EPS HEP 2007), Manchester, England, July 19–25, 2007.
• Organizer of the Joint ICTP-INFN-SISSA Conference: Topical Issues in LHC Physics, ICTP, Trieste,
Italy, June 29–July 2, 2009.
• Organizer of the Parma International School of Theoretical Physics, University of Parma, Parma,
Italy, August 31–September 4, 2009.
• Convener of the “Lepton flavour and lepton number violation” session of the 3rd general meeting of the
Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, December 14–16,
2009.
• Organizer of the GGI workshop Interpreting LHC Discoveries, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical
Physics (GGI), Florence, Italy, October 31–November 25, 2011.
• Organizer of the Interpreting LHC Discoveries Conference, in the context of the workshop with the
same name, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, November 8–11, 2011.
• Organizer (and member of the Advisory Committee) of the 1st Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor
Violation, Lecce, Italy, May 6–8 2013.
• Organizer of the School on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (Pre-SUSY
2013), ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 20–23, 2013.
• Organizer (and opening talk with Fernando Quevedo) of SUSY 2013, 21st International Conference on
Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions conference, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August
26–31, 2013.
• Organizer of the Electroweak symmetry breaking, flavour and dark matter after the Higgs discovery
conference (mid-term meeting of the ERC Grant ”Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavour and Dark
Matter: One Solution for Three Mysteries” (DaMeSyFla)), Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical
Physics (GGI), Florence, Italy, December 16–18, 2013.
• Convenor of the working group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model for the INFN activity “What
Next” (including the meeting in Rome on April 7–8, 2014), from February 2014.
Talks
• “Electric dipole moments in supersymmetric theories”, presented at the 24th ITEP Winter School of
Physics, Moscow, Russia, February 20–28, 1996.
• “Unified theories of flavour with U(2) as horizontal group”, presented at the Cargèse 96 Summer School:
“Masses of Fundamental particles” Cargèse, France, August 5–17, 1996.
• “Unification and flavour physics”, seminar held at the physics department of the University of Genova,
Genova, Italy, November 22, 1996.
• “Consequences of a U(2) flavour symmetry”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the Technische Universität München, München, Germany, March 6, 1997.
• “Naturalness and supersymmetry”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the University of
Oxford, in the “Particle Phenomenology Forum” series, Oxford, UK, January 26, 1999.
• “Phenomenology of flavour models”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the University of
Oxford, “Particle and fields” Oxford/RAL seminar series, Oxford, UK, February 18, 1999.
• “Phenomenological analysis of a quark mass texture”, presented at the Mid-term review meeting of the
European TMR Network “Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, February 24–27,
1999.
• “Tests of quark mass textures”, presented at the XXXIVth Rencontres de Moriond, “Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories” session, Les Arcs 1800, France, March 13–20, 1999.
• “Supersimmetrie dopo LEP2”, invited talk at the XI convegno sulla fisica al LEP (MILEP), Milano,
Italy, April 7–9, 1999.
• “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the University
of Oxford, in the “Particle Phenomenology Forum” series, Oxford, UK, June 26, 1999.
• “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations”, presented at the XIth Rencontres de Blois, “Frontiers of Matter”, Blois, Loire Valley, France, June 27–July 3, 1999.
• “CP-violation in neutrino oscillations”, invited talk at the ICFA/ECFA Workshop “Neutrino Factories
based on Muon Storage Rings” (ν-Fact’99), Lyon, France, 5–9 July 1999.
• “Models for neutrino physics”, invited talk at the “Ringberg Workshop des SFB 375 (Astroteilchenphysik)”, Ringberg, Germany, October 11–15, 1999.
• “CP-violating effects in neutrino physics”, seminar held at the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular/CSIC University of València, Spain, November 16, 1999.
• “Measuring CP-violation with a neutrino factory”, presented at the meeting “The Physics Opportunities
of a Neutrino Factory”, Oxford, United Kingdom, December 7, 1999.
• “Physics Opportunities with a neutrino factory”, seminar held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Didcot, January 26, 2000.
• “Physics Opportunities with a neutrino factory”, seminar held at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at the University of Southampton, UK, February 18, 2000.
• “Physics Opportunities with a neutrino factory”, seminar held at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran
Sasso, Assergi, Italy, April 20, 2000.
• “Opportunità offerte da sorgenti intense di neutrini”, seminar held at the Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, February 24, 2000.
• “Opportunità offerte da sorgenti intense di neutrini”, seminar held at the Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa, Italy, March 16, 2000.
• “Physics Opportunities with a neutrino factory”, invited talk at the Euresco conference “From the
Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale” (Planck 2000), Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy, April 15–20, 2000.
• “Brane-bulk neutrino oscillations and the KARMEN anomaly”, seminar held at the Department of
Physics of the University of Oxford, “Particle and fields” Oxford/RAL seminar series, Oxford, UK,
May 11, 2000.
• “Test of Quark Mass Textures”, invited talk at the Meeting of The Division of Particles and Fields of
The American Physical Society (DPF2000), Columbus, Ohio, August 9–12, 2000.
• “Brane-bulk Neutrino Oscillations”, invited talk at the Meeting of The Division of Particles and Fields
of The American Physical Society (DPF2000), Columbus, Ohio, August 9–12, 2000.
• “Brane-bulk Neutrino Oscillations”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the Purdue University in the “High Energy Theory Seminar” series, Lafayette, Indiana, November 7, 2000.
• “Brane-bulk Neutrino Oscillations”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of the University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida, November 17, 2000.
• “Neutrino phenomenology and flat extra-dimensions”, seminar held at the Department of Physics of
the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, November 20, 2000.
• “Neutrino phenomenology and flat extra-dimensions”, seminar held at the Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, January 18, 2001.
• “Neutrino phenomenology and flat extra-dimensions”, seminar held at the Laboratoire de Physique
Théorique et Hautes Energies (Université P. et M. Curie and Université Denis Diderot), Paris, France,
February 2, 2001.
• “Neutrino phenomenology and flat extra-dimensions”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; at the Physics Department of the University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois, March 26, 2001.
• “Models of fermion masses and mixings”, seminar held at the Physics Department, The University of
Manchester, Manchester, UK, February 5, 2001.
• “Short baseline neutrino oscillations”, invited talk at the meeting of the “Future Neutrino Experiments
at Fermilab” working group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, February 14,
2001.
• “Neutrino phenomenology and flat extra-dimensions”, invited talk at the Frontiers in Contemporary
Physics — II (FCP01) conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 5–10, 2001.
• “Neutrinos Parallel Session Highlights”, summary talk of the neutrino parallel session at the Frontiers in
Contemporary Physics — II (FCP01) conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March
5–10, 2001.
• “Mass textures”, invited talk at Leptre, XIII convegno sulla fisica al LEP, Roma, Italy, April 19–20,
2001.
• “Mass textures in the light of experimental data”, seminar held at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa,
Italy, April 23, 2001.
• “How an upgraded brighter booster will give us a better understanding of Flavor Physics?”, invited
talk at the Workshop on Physics Potentials at FNAL with Stronger Proton Sources, Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, June 6–7, 2001.
• “The SNO results and their implications”, invited talk at the Argonne National Lab Theory Institute
2001: From Supersymmetry to Extra Dimensions, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, Illinois, June
17–29, 2001.
• “θ23 , θ13 and the origin of fermion masses and mixings”, invited talk at Snowmass 2001: The Future
of Particle Physics, Snowmass Village, Colorado, June 30–July 21, 2001.
• “Neutrino flavor physics”, invited talk at the Aspen Summer Workshop Flavor Physics: Standard
Model and Beyond, Aspen, Colorado, August 19–September 9, 2001.
• Summary talk of the “New Physics” session at the Incontri sulla Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE Parma
2002), Parma, Italy, April 3–5, 2002.
• “Review of SUSY flavour models”, invited talk at the Euro-GDR General Meeting, IPPP, Durham,
UK, April 18–20, 2002.
• “Supernova neutrinos and extra-dimensions”, seminar held at the CERN “PhenClub”, Switzerland,
March 20, 2003.
• “Supernova neutrinos and extra-dimensions”, talk given at the 6th European Meeting “From The Planck
Scale To The Electroweak Scale” (Planck 03), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, May 26–31, 2003.
• “Theory of lepton mixing”, series of lectures at the LNF Spring School, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati,
Frascati, Italy, May 19–23, 2003.
• “Predictions for observables in neutrino physics”, seminar held at CERN in the “Theoretical Seminar”
series, Switzerland, September 24, 2003.
• “Expectations and predictions for neutrino observables”, seminar held at SISSA in the “Wednesday
Seminar” series, Trieste, Italy, November 19, 2003.
• “Expectations and predictions for neutrino observables”, seminar held at the university of Rome I in
the “Joint seminar Rome I – Rome III” series, Rome, Italy, December 4, 2003.
• “Expectations and predictions for neutrino observables”, invited talk at the Journées Neutrinos meeting, LPNHE, Paris, France, November 27–28, 2003.
• “Neutrinos & CPV”, invited talk at the 3th Meeting of the EuroGDR “Supersymmetry”, Orsay, France,
December 11–13, 2003.
• “Supersymmetry and Naturalness”, invited talk at the Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE 04),
Torino, Italy, April 14–16, 2004.
• “New physics and the determination of the CKM parameters”, invited talk at the Joint meeting
LHCb/theory, CERN, Switzerland, May 28, 2004.
• “Theoretical guidelines on new physics”, invited talk at the Forth workshop of the network: “The 3rd
generation as a probe for new physics”, Pisa, Italy, May 5–7, 2004.
• “Ignoring the hierarchy problem”, seminar held at CERN “PhenClub”, Switzerland, June 10, 2004.
• “Ignoring the hierarchy problem”, seminar held at the university of Rome III in the “Joint seminar
Rome I – Rome III” series, Rome, Italy, December 2, 2004.
• “Ignoring the hierarchy problem”, invited talk at “Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste”,
La Thuile, Italy, February 27–March 5, 2005.
• “Ignoring the hierarchy problem”, seminar held at the “Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-vieux de Physique des
Particules”, Annecy, France, March 15, 2005.
• “Ignoring the hierarchy problem”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the Technical University
of Munich, December 1, 2005.
• “Approaches to the hierarchy problem”, joint colloquium/seminar at the Department of physical sciences/HIP, Helsinki, Finland, June 22, 2004.
• “Neutrino phenomenology”, invited talk at the SPSC Villars Meeting on a Future Fixed Target Programme at CERN, Villars-sur-Ollon, Vaud, Switzerland, September 22–28, 2004.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the University of Oxford in the “Friday Theoretical Physics
Seminars” series, November 19, 2004.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, invited talk at the “4th EuroGDR meeting”, Frascati, Italy, November 25–27,
2004.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Bern,
Bern, Switzerland, January 14, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the University of Milano Bicocca, January 21, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, April 27, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the University of Bari, Bari, Italy,
April 28, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, June 1, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, invited talk at the “Les Houches Summer School - Session LXXXIV” on “Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, Les Houches, France, August 1–26, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, seminar held at the “Royal Holloway” University of London, November 16,
2005.
• “Electroweak physics at the LHC”, series of lectures at the Italo-Hellenic School of Physics 2005 The
Physics of LHC: Theoretical tools and experimental challenges, Martignano, Lecce, Italy, June 9–14,
2005.
• “Report on the Madrid workshop: theoretical issues and experiment”, invited talk at the “7th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Superbeams (NuFact 05)”, LNF, Frascati, Italy, June
21–26, 2005.
• “Flavor and neutrinos”, series of lectures at the XIV Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica, Parma,
Italy, August 29–September 9, 2005.
• “Flavour phenomena in the lepton sector”, invited talk at the opening plenary meeting of the Flavour
in the Era of the LHC workshop, CERN, Switzerland, November 7–10 2005.
• “New physics in neutrino oscillations”, invited talk at the first physics working group workshop of the
International scoping study of a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility, Imperial College,
London, UK, November 14–21, 2005.
• “Split Supersymmetry”, series of lectures at the 19’th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spåtind 2006),
Spåtind, Norway, January 4–10, 2006.
• “CSN4”, report on the activity of INFN CSN4 to the INFN International Evaluation Committee, INFN
headquarters, Rome, Italy, July 17, 2006.
• “Scenarios for LHC physics”, invited talk at the “IV Workshop Italiano sulla Fisica di ATLAS e CMS”,
Bologna, Italy, November 23–25, 2006.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Physics Department of University
of Pisa, November, 16, 2006.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid, Spain,
November 28, 2006.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the University of Milano Bicocca, January 26, 2007.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Institut de physique théorique
(IPhT), Saclay, France, April 4, 2007.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Physics Department of the University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, April 4, 2007.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,
Slovenia; April 19, 2004.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the University of Naples “Federico
II”, May 3, 2007.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, May 14,
2007.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar held at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, November 19, 2007.
• “From neutrinos to charged fermion masses”, invited talk at the Winter 06/07 Collaboration Meeting
of ENTApP (European Network of Theoretical Astroparticle Physics) “NUMMI’07”, Durham, UK,
January 10–12, 2007.
• “LHC and neutrino physics”, invited talk at the XII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes,
Venice, Italy, March 6–9, 2007.
• “Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model”, series of lectures at the Parma International
School of Theoretical Physics (SNFT07), Parma, Italy, September 3–8, 2007.
• “Theory of neutrino masses”, series of lectures at the III International Pontecorvo Neutrino Physics
School, Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, September 16–26, 2007.
• “Theory of neutrino masses”, series of lectures at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR),
Dubna, Russia, November 4–17, 2007.
• “Lepton flavour violation”, invited talk at the Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics workshop,
CERN, Switzerland, December 3–4, 2007.
• “A predictive type-II model of leptogenesis”, invited talk at the Early Universe Thermometers workshop, Padua, Italy, February 6–8, 2008.
• “A new, direct link between the baryon asymmetry and neutrino masses”, seminar held at the Abdus
Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, April 7, 2008
• “Spin 1 top partner”, seminar held during the Nordita program on TeV Scale Physics and Dark Matter,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 5, 2008.
• “The flavour problem”, seminar held during the Nordita program on TeV Scale Physics and Dark
Matter, Stockholm, Sweden, June 6, 2008.
• “The little hierarchy problem at the LHC”, invited talk at the Nordic Workshop on LHC and Beyond,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 12–14, 2008.
• “LHC: attese teoriche”, invited talk at the Giornata di Studio sul Piano Triennale 2009-2011, Firenze,
Italy, July 2–3, 2008.
• “A theoretical perspective on LHC physics”, invited talk for CSN4 to the INFN International Evaluation Committee at the CVI Meeting 2008, INFN headquarters, Rome, Italy, July 17, 2006.
• “Supersymmetry”, lectures at the Baikal summer JINR-ISU school, Bol’shie Koty, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk,
Siberia, Russia, July 20–27, 2008.
• “Neutrino masses”, lectures at the Baikal summer JINR-ISU school, Bol’shie Koty, Lake Baikal,
Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, July 20–27, 2008.
• “Leptogenesis in SO(10) type see-saw”, invited talk at the Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW
2008), Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy, September 6–13, 2008.
• “A predictive type-II SO(10) model of leptogenesis”, seminar held at the University of Salento, Lecce,
Italy, October 23, 2008.
• “A neutrino-inspired model of fermion masses and mixings”, invited talk at the Fifth Annual Meeting
of ENTApP N6/WP1 Neutrinos in Particle, in Nuclear and in Astrophysics, ECT*, Trento, Italy,
November 16–21, 2008.
• “SUSY contributions to φBs from hierarchical sfermions”, invited talk at the Symposium on Prospects
in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE ’08), IFIC, Valencia, Spain, December 11–16,
2008.
• “LHC physics for string theorists”, invited talk at the IV Avogadro Meeting on Strings, Supergravity
and Gauge theories, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, December 17–19, 2008.
• “Crossing the energy frontier with the LHC”, seminar (colloquium) held at SISSA in the context of
the SISSA Colloquium series, Trieste, Italy, January 15, 2009.
• “A predictive model of leptogenesis”, seminar held at DAMTP, University of Cambridge in the context
of the HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar series, Cambridge, UK, February 13,
2009.
• “Hierarchical Soft Terms and Flavor Physics”, invited talk at the 2nd general meeting of the Interplay
of Collider and Flavour Physics workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, March 16–18, 2009.
• “Hierarchical Soft Terms and Flavor Physics”, invited talk at the Ringberg Workshop on New Physics,
Flavors and Jets, Ringberg Castle, Rottach-Egern, Germany, April 26, 2009.
• “The flavour puzzle and accidental symmetries”, seminar (colloquium) held at the University of Torino,
Torino, Italy, March 27, 2009.
• “(Lepton) Flavor Violation as signal for new physics”, lectures held at the XIV LNF Spring School
“Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, INFN National Laboratories in
Frascati, Frascati, Italy, May 11–15, 2009.
• “Aspetti della fisica oltre il Modello Standard all’LHC”, invited talk at the Giornata di Seminari della
Sezione INFN di Trieste, Physics Department, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, July 7, 2009.
• “The Standard Model of Particle Physics”, lectures at the International Baikal Summer School on
Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, Bol’shie Koty, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia,
July 23–30, 2009.
• “Gauge unification and magic fields”, seminar held at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,
Belgium, September 25, 2009.
• “Tree level gauge mediation”, invited talk at Searching for New Physics at the LHC workshop of the
Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Florence, Italy, August 31–October 30, 2009
(talk given on October 20).
• “Leptogenesis and LFV in a predictive SO(10) model”, invited talk at the BUE,CTP International
Conference on Neutrino Physics in the LHC Era, Luxor, Egypt, November 15–19, 2009.
• “Supersymmetry and a new prediction for sfermion masses”, colloquium held at the Physics Department, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, February 10, 2010.
• “Tree level gauge mediation”, seminar held at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, February 16, 2010.
• “Fenomenologia oltre il Modello Standard”, invited plenary talk at IFAE2010, Incontri di Fisica delle
Alte Energie, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, April 7–9, 2010.
• “Tree level gauge mediation”, invited plenary talk at Origin of Mass 2010, CP3 origins, Odense,
Denmark, May 3–7, 2010.
• “Tree level gauge mediation”, invited talk at Planck 2010, From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak
Scale, CERN, Switzerland, May 31–June 4, 2010.
• “From type-II see-saw to a new mechanism of supersymmetry breaking”, invited plenary talk at GoranFest: the joy of making physics, Split, Croatia, June 9–12, 2010.
• “Neutrino Physics”, lectures held at the 2010 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2010),
Raseborg, Finland, Jun2 20–July 3, 2010.
• “Neutrino Physics”, lectures held at CERN’s Summer Student Lecture Programme, CERN, Switzerland,
July 5–August 20, 2010.
• “Realizations of Tree Level Gauge Mediation”, invited plenary talk at the 18th International Conference
on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2010), Physikalisches Institut,
Bonn, Germany, 23–28 August, 2010.
• “Phenomenological aspects of supersymmetric models and beyond”, lectures given at the 26th Nordic
Network Meeting on Strings, Fields and Branes, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, October 21–23, 2010.
• “Supersymmetry”, lectures given at the 3rd Winter School Geometry and Physics, CP3 origins, Odense,
Denmark, November 1–5, 2010.
• “Tree level gauge mediation”’, invited plenary talk at the Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
workshop, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, December 2–3, 2010.
• “Aspects of tree level gauge mediation”, seminar held at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Durham, UK, February 3, 2011.
• “A split SM embedding in SO(10), minimal type-II seesaw, and tree-level gauge mediation”, seminar
held at IFAE, Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2011.
• “Neutrino Physics”, 3 lectures held on August 3, 4, 5, 2011 at the CERN Summer Student Program,
CERN, Switzerland, July 4–August 19, 2011.
• “Theoretical and phenomenological aspects of tree-level gauge mediation”, seminar held at the MaxPlanck-Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany, December 12, 2011.
• “BSM physics”, 5 lectures held at the LHCPhenoNet Winter School 2012, Ascona, Switzerland, January
22–29, 2012.
• “Theoretical and phenomenological aspects of supersymmetry breaking”, seminar held at the Scuola
Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa, Italy, March 29, 2012.
• “Simple and direct dynamical supersymmetry breaking”, invited plenary talk at Planck 2012, From
the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–June 1, 2012.
• “A general perspective on BSM physics”, invited talk (in two parts on June 20 and 21) at the GGI
workshop WHAT IS ν?: From new experimental neutrino results to a deeper understanding of theoretical physics and cosmology, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, June
6–July 7, 2012.
• “Simple and Direct Communication of Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking”, invited talk at the workshop The First Two Years at the LHC, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) at the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 05–August 10, 2012.
• “The Standard Model and Beyond”, 6 lectures at the BUSSTEPP 2012 Summer School, Durham
University, Durham, UK, September 2–14, 2012.
• “Simple and Direct Communication of Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking”, invited talk at the 2nd
KIAS Phenomenology Workshop, Seoul, Korea, September 10–14, 2012.
• “Simple and Direct Communication of Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking”, invited talk at the GGI
workshop Understanding the TeV Scale Through LHC Data, Dark Matter, and Other Experiments,
Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, October 8–November 11, 2012.
• “On the structure of the charged lepton mass matrix”, invited talk at Portorož 2013 (Probing the
Standard Model and New Physics at Low and High Energies), Portorož, Slovenia, April 14–18, 2013.
• “Supersymmetry breaking in the light of LHC”, invited talk at the Balkan Workshop BW2013 —
Beyond the Standard Models, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, April 25–29, 2013.
• “LHC SUSY implications”, invited talk at the conference Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model Physics
at the LHC, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 24–28, 2013.
• “Supersymmetry breaking in the light of LHC”, seminar held at the center for Cosmology, Particle
Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, June 28, 2013.
• “The Standard Model and Beyond”, 5 lectures at the BUSSTEPP 2013 Summer School, University of
Sussex, Brighton, UK, September 1–13, 2013.
• “Fisica oltre il modello standard alla luce dei risultati di LHC”, invited talk at the XCIX Congresso
Nazionale of the Italian Physical Society (SIF), Trieste, Italy, September 23–27, 2013.
• “Supersymmetry breaking in the light of LHC”, seminar held at the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb of
the Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, October 18, 2013.
• “Perspectives of supersymmetry and BSM physics in the LHC era”, invited talk at the Dutch National
Seminar Theoretical High-Energy Physics, Nikhef, Amsterdam, March 21, 2014.
In summary
• 72 talks at international conferences, out of which 56 invited plenary talks, out of which 2 summary
talks; 59 seminars, 18 (series of) lectures. In total 149 talks.
Conferences and Schools attended (no talks)
• Scuola INFN di studi avanzati in fisica nucleare e subnucleare, in 4 parts held in Varenna, Legnaro,
Roma Tor Vergata, Catania, Italy, during 1993 (participant).
• IV Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica (Forth National Seminar of Theoretical Physics), Centro
Studi Santa Elisabetta, Parma, Italy, September 5–16, 1994 (participant).
• International Workshop on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 95),
Palaiseau, France, May 15–19, 1995 (participant).
• International School of Subnuclear Physics: “Vacuum and Vacua: the physics of nothing”, Erice, Italy,
July 2–10, 1995 (participant).
• Summer Institute on “Signals of unified theories”, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Gran Sasso,
Italy, September 2–8, 1995 (participant).
• Convegno informale di fisica teorica e delle particelle elementari, Cortona, Italy, May 21–25, 1996
(participant).
• XXXIInd Rencontres de Moriond, “Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories” session, Les Arcs
1800, France, March 15–22, 1997 (participant).
• International Workshop on Physics Beyond the Standard Model: from Theory to Experiment (València
97), València, Spain, October 13–17, 1997 (participant).
• Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste: “Results and perspectives in particle physics”, La
Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, March 1–7, 1998 (participant).
• ICHEP’04 (32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, Beijing, China, August 16–22,
2004 (convenor).
• IFAE, Catania, Italy, March 30–April 2, 2005 (convenor).
• IFT Mini Workshop on Neutrino Physics, Madrid, Spain, May 18–20, 2005 (discussion leader).
• Meeting of the ENTApP Visitor Programme and Workshop on Dark Matter, held at SISSA, Trieste,
October 12–21, 2005 (organizer).
• Flavour in the Era of the LHC workshop, CERN, Switzerland: opening plenary meeting, November
7–10 2005; 2nd meeting, February 6–8, 2006; 4th meeting, October 9–11 2006 (participant, talk at the
first opening plenary meeting).
• Workshop sui Monte Carlo, la Fisica e le Simulazioni a LHC, LNF, Frascati, Italy, February 27–28,
2006 (member of the scientific board).
• Workshop on New Directions Beyond the Standard Model in Field and String Theory at the “Galileo
Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics”, Arcetri (Florence), attended in the period June 4–17, 2006.
Also, in the context of the workshop, joint conference with the Johns Hopkins Workshop, June 6–8,
2006 (participant).
• The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS HEP 2007), Manchester, England,
July 19–25, 2007 (convenor).
• From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale (Planck 2009), Centro Culturale Altinate (San Gaetano), Padova, Italy, May 25–29, 2009 (participant).
• Joint ICTP-INFN-SISSA Conference: Topical Issues in LHC Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 29–
July 2, 2009 (organizer).
• Parma International School of Theoretical Physics, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, August 31–
September 4, 2009 (organizer).
• 3rd general meeting of the Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics workshop, CERN, Geneva,
Switzerland, December 14–16, 2009 (convener).
• Portorož 2011, The Role of Heavy Fermions in Fundamental Physics, Portorož, Slovenia, April 11–14,
2011.
• Planck 2011, From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale, Istituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa,
Portugal, May 30–June 3, 2011 (representative of the Trieste node of the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network “UNILHC”).
• String Phenomenology, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden, May30–June 25, 2011.
• Interpreting LHC Discoveries, GGI workshop, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI),
Florence, October 31–November 25, 2011 (organizer).
• Interpreting LHC Discoveries Conference, in the context of the workshop of the same name, Galileo
Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, November 8–11, 2011 (organizer).
• Meeting of the ERC project Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavour and Dark Matter: One Solution
for Three Mysteries (DaMeSyFla), Trieste, Italy, February 3, 2012 (team member).
• Meeting of the ERC project Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavour and Dark Matter: One Solution
for Three Mysteries (DaMeSyFla), Roma, Italy, August 30–31, 2012 (team member).
• Meeting of the ERC project Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavour and Dark Matter: One Solution
for Three Mysteries (DaMeSyFla), Padova, Italy, April 11–12, 2013 (team member).
• 1st Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor Violation, Lecce, Italy, May 6–8 2013 (organizer and member
of the advisory committee).
• Beyond the Standard Model after the first run of the LHC, GGI workshop, Galileo Galilei Institute for
Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, May 20–July 12, 2013.
• School on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (Pre-SUSY 2013), ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 20–23, 2013 (organizer).
• SUSY 2013, 21st International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions conference, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 26–31, 2013 (organizer).
Other academic activities
• Scientific consultant for ICTP in 2014 (from 15.01.2014 to 15.12.2014).
• Launched on October 7, 2013 the Joint ICTP-SISSA Journal Club on Phenomenology (JCP), organized
together with Giovanni Villadoro.
• Team member of the ERC Advanced Grant no. 267985 “DaMESyFla”.
• Member of PRIN projects in 2006, 2008, 2010-2011 (in 2008, 2006 as local coordinator). All PRIN
project proposals to which I participated have been approved.
• Member of several european networks: FP7 ITN “Invisibles” (Marie Curie Actions, PITN- GA-2011289442, April 2012–March 2016), FP7 ITN “UNILHC” (Marie Curie Actions, PITN-GA-2009-237920,
October 2009–September 2013), FP6 RTN “UniverseNet” (Marie Curie Actions, MRTN-CT-2006035863), FP6 RTN “Across the energy frontier” (Marie Curie Actions, HPRN-CT-2000-00148).
• Research appointment (“incarico di ricerca”) in the Trieste Section of INFN since 2008.
• Speaker for theoretical physics (CSN4) at the INFN evaluation by the international evaluation committee (CVI 06), INFN headquarters, Rome, Italy, July 17, 2006.
• Speaker for theoretical physics (CSN4) at the INFN evaluation by the international evaluation committee (CVI 08), INFN headquarters, Rome, Italy, July 10, 2008.
• Invited speaker at the Giornata di Studio sul Piano Triennale INFN 2009-2011, Firenze, Italy, July
2–3, 2008.
• Discussion leader at the IFT Mini Workshop on Neutrino Physics, Madrid, Spain, May 18–20, 2005.
• Discussion leader at the Winter 06/07 Collaboration Meeting of ENTApP (European Network of
Theoretical Astroparticle Physics) NUMMI’07, Durham, UK, January 10–12, 2007.
Outreach and Press releases
• Interview on Split Supersymmetry for the Emerging Research Front Comments of Thomson ESI (Essential Science Indicators), http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/2005/october05-AndreaRomanino.html.
• “Particelle, la sfida che viene dallo spazio”, cover SISSA News article, May 2006 issue.
• Interview for “Gazzetta di Parma” on the Physics of LHC and the Parma International School of
Theoretical Physics, September 10, 2007 issue.
• “La Fisica di LHC”, lecture at the Master in Science Communication at the International School for
Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, November 23, 2007.
• Interview on LHC within a round table for the Radio Rai 1 (Friuli Venezia Giulia) program of Daniela
Picoi, Trieste, Italy, September 16, 2008.
• “Uno sguardo ai fondamenti dell’universo”, plenary talk at the SISSA/ICTP open day, Trieste, Italy,
September 20, 2008.
• Interview on LHC in the Radio Rai program Eureka, Trieste, Italy, September 25, 2008.
• “La frontiera dell’energia”, SISSA News article, October 2008 issue.
• Interview for an article on the Cabibbo missed Nobel prize, Il Piccolo, Trieste, October 22, 2008 issue.
• “A glance to the foundations of the universe”, lecture at the United World College, Trieste, Italy,
November 12, 2008; lecture to Swedish high school students held at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, May 4, 2009.
• Interview for the TV program “Italia Focus” of RAI International on research on LHC physics at
SISSA, brodcasted on the 6th and 13th of August 2009.
• “La fisica delle particelle elementari e le fondamenta dell’universo”, outreach talk to high school students
held at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, March 4, 2009; lecture at Liceo Petrarca, Trieste, Tialy in the context of
the project La scienza si presenta promoted by the Trieste Province, March 13, 2009; at the Liceo of
San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy, March 13, 2010; at the Liceo Galilei of Trieste, Italy, March 25, 2010.
• “Particle physics: a tale of broken unification”, talk to the third and fourth year physics students of
the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, held at SISSA on November 8, 2012.
• “La fisica delle particelle”, talk to high school students held at SISSA on May 23, 2012.
• SISSA press release on the discovery of the Higgs boson, July 6 2012.