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Practical Information

Name Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis
Birth March +th, 1964 in Tr++t+ (Italy)
Wife L+cia ++ +asp+ri, since September 26th, 1993
Children Bene+e++a, since January 13th, 2000
  Ma++a+ena, since December 21st, 2002
Nationality Italian
Languages Italian (mother tongue), English and French


Education

1989-1992 Italian State Doctorate (``Dottorato di Ricerca'') in Physics at ``Università degli Studi di Milano''.
Curriculum in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (Tutor: prof. A. Pullia);
Thesis: Studio del decadimento Z -> bb con elettroni nello stato finale in DELPHI: metodo di calibrazione del calorimetro ed analisi dati (Rome, September 21th, 1993).
1983-1988 ``Corso di Laurea in Fisica'' at ``Università degli Studi di Milano''.
``Tesi di Laurea'': Ricerca del decadimento beta doppio dello 136-Xe nel Laboratorio del Gran Sasso (Milan, July 11th, 1988; relatore prof. E. Fiorini; final score 110/110 cum laude).
June 1983 End of secondary education: "Diploma di maturità classica" at the Liceo Ginnasio Statale ``A. Manzoni'' in Milano (final score: 58/60).


Positions

Since 2005 Associate professor in Experimental Physics - Università di Milano Bicocca
2002-2005 Senior reserch staff at INFN - Sezione di Milano.
1996-2001 Permanent research staff at INFN - Sezione di Milano.
1995-1996 Temporary research staff at INFN - Sezione di Milano.
1994-1995 Post-doc fellowship of the Università degli Studi di Milano.
1993-1994 Post-doc fellowship of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
1989-1992 Doctoral stipend from the Italian Ministry of Sientific and Technological Research.
1988-1989 Artillery Lieutenant in the Italian Army (militar service).


Main research activities

2002-2005 Member of the CMS collaboration at the LHC (Developments of precalibration and online calibration methods for the electromagnetic calorimeter, data simulation/analysis in the Standard Model group (mainly W mass))
2003-2006 R&D on glass Resistive Plate Chambers within the CAPIRE collaboration supported by INFN-Gruppo V (Milan's group leader, contribution to prototype's design, beam tests and long-term stability studies) and principal investigator in 2006 of the R2PC project proposing the concpet of "mechanical quenching" of streamers in RPC detectors.
1997-2002 Feasibility studies of experiments on neutrino physics (contributions to tests of a LAr-TPC prototype on a neutrino beam; convenor of the Simulation Working group of the MONOLITH project for oscillation studies with atmospheric neutrinos).
1995-1999 Member of the NA56/SPY collaboration (contributions to the definition of the project and of the measurement programme, to the optimisation of the experimental apparatus, to calibration runs, data taking and analysis, editor of all the final papers).
1994-1995 BaBar - Aerogel Threshold Counter project (Study of Hybrid-Photodiode detectors for light readout, contributions to beam tests)
1990-2000 Member of the DELPHI collaboration (calibration and monitoring of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter HPC, studies of aging effects in proportional chambers, coordination of HPC's beam tests (1994/95), data analysis in b physics, member of the DELPHI Editorial Board since 1999).
1987-1991 Participation to the MIBETA experiment on the double-beta decay of 136-Xe (contributions to the optimisation of the apparatus, to the detector monitoring and calibration and to data taking and analysis).


Conferences, invited talks and seminars:

2007 ``W mass and properties at the LHC'', rapporteur talk fot the ATLAS and CMS collaboration, given at the ``Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics'', Manchester, England, July, 2007
2007 Neutrino Hierarchy from Atmospheric and Beta Beam Neutrinos with High Density Magnetized Detectors, talk at ``Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics'', Manchester, England, July, 2007
2005 ``R & D for RPC Detectros with Glass Electrodes'', talk at the ``IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference'', Wyndham El Conquistador Resort, Puerto Rico, October 2005
2005 `` Pre-Calibration of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter with Cosmic Rays'', poster presented on behalf of the CMS ECAL collaboration at the ``IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference'', Wyndham El Conquistador Resort, Puerto Rico, October 2005
2005 ``Digital Hadron Calorimetry with Glass RPC detectros'', ``Linear Collider Workshop 2005'', Stanford (CA), March, 2005
2004 ``R&D on RPC detectros'', Talk at the ``Linear Collider Workshop 2004'', Paris (France), April, 2004
2003 ``Misure (in)dirette della massa dei neutrini'', Invited talk at ``XV Incontri sulla Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE)'', Lecce (Italy), April, 2003
2002 ``Future projects with atmospheric neutrinos'', Invited talk at the ``XXth International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2002)'', Munich (Germany), May 26th, 2002.
2002 ``Stato attuale delle misure con neutrini'', Invited talk at ``XIV Incontri sulla Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE)'', Parma (Italy), April 4th, 2002
2001 ``Atmospheric neutrinos'', Invited talk at ``Workshop on Massive Underground Neutrino Detectors with Leptonic Charge-Sign Discrimination'', Sitges (Spain), November 8th, 2001
2001 ``Sensitivity to oscillation parameters of the MONOLITH experimentnt''; ``TAUP 2001: Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics'', Assergi, Italy, 8-12 Sep 2001.
2001 ``MONOLITH''; Invited seminar at the Università ``La Sapienza'' Rome (Italy), June 20th, 2001
2001 ``MONOLITH, a high resolution neutrino oscillation experiment''; ``XV Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste'', (La Thuile (AO), Italy), March 10th, 2001.
1999 ``Future experiments on Oscillations with Atmospheric Neutrinos''; Invited talk given at the ``LNF Spring School 99 in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics'', (LNF - Frascati, Italy), April 13th, 1999.
1998 ``Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations by means of a High-Density Detector on the Atmospheric Neutrino Beam''; ``Vulcano Workshop 1998 - Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics'' (Vulcano, Italy), May 1998.
1998 ``The NA56/SPY experiment: measurement of charged particle production from 450 GeV/c protons on beryllium''; Invited seminar at the CERN/SL division (Geneva, Switzerland), June 11th, 1998.
1996 ``An experiment to measure pion and Kaon fluxes below 60 GeV/c produced by 450 GeV/c protons on a Be target''; ``VIIIth Rencontres de Blois'' (Blois, France), June 1996.
1995 `` Performance of large area proximity focused hybrid photodiodes''; 5th International Symposium on on semiconductor devices (Schloss Elmau, Germany), May 1995.
1995 `` Study of aging effects in the HPC readout chambers''; ``7th Wire Chamber Conference'' (Vienna, Austria), February 1995.
1993 `` Review of LEP results on higher order QED processes''; EPS Conference on ``High Energy Physics 1993'' (Marseille, France), July 1993
1991 ``A Multi-Element Proportional Chamber used in an experiment on duoble beta decay of 136-Xe''; ``5th Pisa meeting on advanced detectors - Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics'' (La Biodola, Italy), May 1991.
1991 ``A search for double beta decay of 136-Xe''; XIth Moriond Workshop ``Test of Fundamental Laws in Physics'' (Les Arcs, France), January 1991.


Teaching experience

2003/04 Prof. a contratto: ``Laboratorio di Fisica delle Particelle, Corso di Laurea in Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca''.
2002/03 Seminari didattici: ``Laboratorio di fisica III, Corso di Laurea in Fisica, Università dell'Insubria (sede di Como)''.
2001/02 Seminari didattici: ``Laboratorio di fisica II (1^ e 2^ modulo), Corso di Laurea in Fisica, Università dell'Insubria (sede di Como)''.
2000/01
1999/00
Seminari didattici: ``Esperimentazioni di Fisica II, Corso di Laurea in Fisica, Università dell'Insubria (sede di Como)''
1998/99
1997/98
1996/97
Prof. a contratto: ``Tecniche di Laboratorio per lo studio di fenomeni di trasporto in semiconduttori (Esperimentazioni di Fisica III, Corso di Laurea in Fisica, Università degli studi di Milano)''.


Music studies

1973 Beginning of incoherent guitar studies under different teachers.
1977-1987 Classical guitar studies at the school of the late Maestro Abner Rossi.
1981 Participation to the "Corso di interpretazione musicale" for classical guitarists held by Maestro Enrico Tagliavini (Maccagno, Italy), September 1981.
1982 First prize at the ``1^ Concorso Nazionale città di Lecco per Chitarra e Fisarmonica'', (Lecco, Italy), November 7th, 1982.
1985 Second prize at the ``VII Festival Internazionale per pianisti e chitarristi - città di Bardolino'', (Bardolino, Italy), June 2nd, 1985.
Nowadays Bare amateur guitar player.


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