A. Zoccoli

Personal data: Name: Antonio Zoccoli Year of Birth: 1961 Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy Academic Curriculum: 1980-1985 University Studies in Physics at the University of Bologna December 1985 Diploma in experimental particle physics 1986-1988 Fellowship from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) 1988-1992 Researcher with permanent position at INFN 1992-2003 Associate Professor in Physics at the University di Bologna 2003-Now Full Professor in Physics at the University of Bologna 2006-2011 Director of the INFN section of Bologna 2008-Now President of Fondazione Giuseppe Occhialini (Fossombrone-Italy) 2013-2104 Vice-President of INFN 2012-Now Member of the INFN Executive Board Scientific Activity: 1986-1988 Member of the Muon Catalysed Fusion Collaboration at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) 1988-1997 Member of the OBELIX Collaboration at LEAR (CERN). Goal of the experiment: study of exotic states predicted by the QCD theory, like glueballs, hybrids, etc. Run coordinator of the experiment for many diffferent data taking. Responsible of different analysis working Groups. 1997-2005 Member of the HERA-B Collaboration at HERA (DESY). Project leader and Physics Coordinator (2000-2005) of the international HERA-B collaboration at the HERA accelerator (ca. 330 members, 32 participating institutes from 13 countries, volume of investment ca. 30M€). Goal of the experiment: study of the production and decay of heavy quarks in hadronic interactions. Participation in the data taking of the HERA-B experiment and the physics analysis of the data. Group leader of the Bologna group participating in the HERA-B experiment (ca. 20 members). 2005-Now Member of the ATLAS Collaboration at LHC (CERN). Goal of the experiment: search of the Higgs Boson, Supersymmetries, etc. Group leader of the Bologna group participating in the ATLAS experiment (ca. 30 members).