Paolo Bernardini

Biography

PAOLO BERNARDINI graduated in physics in December 1978, at the University of Lecce, maximum votes and praise. From January 1979 to March 1983 I taught in state schools, except for twelve months of military service (1979-80) and a period (three months in 1981) spent at the Niels Bohr Institutet in Copenhagen, thank you to a Danish government scholarship. In 1982, I ranked 5. in the selection for 20 scholarships for graduates, at the Consortium for Cosenza Research and Information Applications (CRAI); are also a winner of a competition for teaching in middle schools lower. I have given up both of these opportunities.Having won the competition for a researcher (grouping 85, Physics General) at the Faculty of Science of the University of Urbino, I took service in April 1983, receiving from the Institute of Physics and Bioengineering. After three years I got regular confirmation. In July 1988 I moved to the Department of Physics of the University of Lecce, framed in the scientific-disciplinary field B01A (Physics General). In January 2001 I found fit in the benchmarking for a place of Associate Professor (B04X sector, currently FIS / 04, Nuclear Physics and Subnuclear). Called from the Faculty of Science of the University of Lecce I took up service as associate professor in April 2001, continuing to ad join the Department of Physics. After spending the statutory three years, I am has been regularly confirmed in the role.

Research Interest

My research is carried out within the programs of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. I am interested in physics of the cosmic rays of energy of the TeV and gamma astronomy , participating in the Italian-Chinese ARGO-YBJ experiment using a large surface detector, located at 4300 m altitude, on the Tibetan plateau. In the past, I was interested in neutrino physics , contributing to the measurement of the atmospheric neutrinos flow through the Italian-American MACRO experiment. This measure opened the way to the revolutionary hypothesis, today fully accepted, that neutrinos oscillate and are mass-produced. In the last few months I have resumed this search thread, participating in designing the NESSiE spectrometer to be installed at CERN. If the experiment is approved, critical measurements can be made to verify the existence of particularly large sterile neutrinos.