Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Giovanni Losurdo
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Email: [email protected] – [email protected]
Tel: +390554572260 - +39050752317
Homepage: http://hep.fi.infn.it/Gruppo2/losurdo
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Place and date of birth: Bari (Italy), November the 1st 1968.
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Positions held:
2004-present
Researcher, permanent position, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare, Firenze
May 2000-2003 Research fellow (“assegno di ricerca”), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare, Firenze
1998-April 2000 Post-doctoral Fellow, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa,
Italy.
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Main responsibilities
Project Leader of the Advanced Virgo Project
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Education:
1999
1993
PhD in Physics. Title of the thesis “Ultra-Low Frequency Inverted
Pendulum for the VIRGO Test Mass Suspension”, Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa, approved summa cum laude on March, 27th 1999.
Advisor: Prof. Francesco Fidecaro (Universita’ di Pisa), referees: Prof.
Peter Saulson (Syracuse University), Prof, Jim Hough (University of
Glasgow). http://www.infn.it/thesis/PS/499-Losurdo-dottorato.ps
“Laurea in fisica” (M.A. in physics). Approved summa cum laude on July,
14th 1993. Advisor: Prof. Adalberto Giazotto.
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Research activities
Involved since 1992 in the VIRGO project for interferometric detection of gravitational
waves. His research activity until 2000 has been mostly dedicated to the design and the
realization of the superattenuator, the vibration isolation system realized to isolate the
Virgo mirrors from seismic noise and control their position.
Since 2001 he has been deeply committed with the commissioning of the Virgo
detector.
Since 2003 he is responsible of a new lab at INFN-Florence dedicated to R&D activities
on thermal noise reduction for 2nd and 3rd generation interferometers. He is
coordinating the research on the use of silicon for test mass suspensions in cryogenic
interferometers.
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Since 2004 he is involved in the overall design of a 2 generation Virgo.
From July 2006 to April 2009 he has been the Advanced Virgo Coordinator, with the
mandate of:
• coordinating all the R&D activities for Advanced Virgo
• coordinating the writing of the Advanced Virgo Conceptual Design, due to
the funding agencies in November 2007
• define the baseline design, the project organization and cost
In April 2009 he has been nominated Advanced Virgo Project Leader.
Visitorships
2007
2003
2002
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1999
1997
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April-May, Visiting scientist at MIT, LIGO laboratory.
October, visitor at University of Glasgow, Institute for General Relativity.
September-October, visitor at University of Glasgow, Institute for
General Relativity.
July-August, visitor at University of Tokyo, Deparment of Physics.
July-August, visitor at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
July-August, visitor at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
February-April, visiting student at University of Western Australia, Perth,
under the supervision of Prof. D.G.Blair.
Responsibilities within the Virgo Project
2009-present Advanced Virgo Project Leader
2006-2009
Advanced Virgo Coordinator
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2006-2008 Member of the Virgo Speakers Bureau
2003-present Responsible for the INFN Florence lab dedicated to R&D activities for
advanced interferometers.
2005-2006
Co-Coordinator of the work package “monolithic suspension” for the
upgrade of the Virgo detector.
2004-2006
Responsible for the MSC (Mirror Suspension Control) activities in Virgo.
2004-2005
Member of the group responsible for writing the “white paper” for the
Advanced Virgo detector.
2003-2004
Convenor of the Virgo Collaboration Meetings.
2002-2003
Coordinator of the analysis of the effect of seismic noise on Virgo.
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Responsibilities within INFN
2007
2006-2009
2006-2009
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Other responsibilities
2005-2007
2003-2009
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Director of the VESF school on gravitational waves
Co-chair of the working group 1of the ILIAS-GWA FP6 project
Teaching activities
1997-2000
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Observer of the INFN National Scientific Committee II in the National
Scientific Committee V (Technological research)
Member of the INFN National Scientific Committee II (Astroparticle
physics)
Coordinator of the area “Astroparticle and general physics” at INFN
Firenze
Teaching Assistant in the course of General Physics at the
Departments of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Pisa.
Peer review activities
He has served as referee for SCIENCE, Review of Scientific Instruments and
Classical and Quantum Gravity
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Panels and boards
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Member of the National Science Foundation Review Panel for Advanced LIGO.
CALTECH, Pasadena (CA), 11-13 Giugno 2003.
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Member of the Advisory Committe of the workshop “Toward a 3rd generation
European Gravitational Wave Observatory”, Perugia, Settembre 2005.
Member of the organizing committe of the “Virgo-SIGRAV school on
gravitational waves”, Cascina (PI), from 2002 to 2005.
Talks at international conferences:
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2007
2006
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1999
Rome (Italy), TAUP Conference, Advanced GW detectors, Invited plenary
talk
Austin (Texas), American Astronomical Society Winter meeting, The next
generation of gound based GW detectors, invited talk.
Manchester (UK), European Physical Society HEP07, The next generations
of GW interferometric detectors (approved by Virgo Coll. and LIGO
Scientific Coll.)
Moscow, ICHEP2006, LIGO and Virgo: large interferometers searching for
gravitational waves. (First LIGO-Virgo joint talk, reviewed by both
Collaborations).
Isola d'Elba, “Gravitational Waves Advanced Detectors Workshop”, The
control of the Superattenuator: present and future.
Perth (Australia), Italy-Australia workshop on GW detection”, invited talk:
The status of Virgo.
Warwick (UK), “IoP2005 – Physics: a century after Einstein”, invited talk:
Virgo: status and perspectives.
Munich, “1st European Astroparticle Town Meeting”, Infrastructure for 3rd
generation detectors
Roma, “2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposyum”, The Control of the
Mirror Suspensions in GW Interferometric Detectors
Vietri sul Mare, “XVI SIGRAV conference on general relativity and
gravitational physics”, invited plenary talk: Virgo and the worldwide
search for gravitational waves.
Sorrento, “Thinking, observing and mining the universe”, invited talk: The
status of Virgo
CERN, Ginevra, “Workshop on Cosmology and Particle Physics (CAPP
2003)”, invited long talk: Interferometer experiments.
Isola d’Elba, “Gravitational Waves Advanced Detectors Workshop”,
invited talk: The Status of Virgo
Perth, “Fourth Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves”.
Invited talk: “Inertial Control of the VIRGO Superattenuator”.
Rome, “Ninth M.Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity”. Invited talk:
“Mirror Suspension Inertial Damping”.
Pasadena, “Third Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves”.
Talk and poster: “Inertial Control of the VIRGO Superattenuator”.
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1999
1997
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Main Seminars and Lectures
2007
2006
2005
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1999
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1999
1997
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S.Miniato (Pisa), “6th San Miniato Topical Seminar on Neutrino and
Astroparticle Physics”. Talk: “Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational
Waves”.
Geneva, “Second Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves”.
Talk: “Active Control Hierarchy in VIRGO Superattenuator”.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany)
National Astronomical Observatory of China (Beijing, China)
University of Florence (Italy)
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Lecture at the “3 Virgo-SIGRAV school on gravitational waves” (Cascina,
Italy)
University of Glasgow (Glasgow, UK)
INFN Florence (Italy)
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK)
University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany)
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA).
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
International summer school on experimental physics of gravitational
waves”, Urbino (Italy). Invited lecture: “Inertial Control of the VIRGO
Superattenuator”.
University of Western Australia (Perth, WA).
Publications
The list of GL publications can be downloaded from the author web site:
http://hep.fi.infn.it/Gruppo2/losurdo
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