Eugenio Nappi - Biography#
Eugenio Nappi completed his higher education at the University of Bari in Italy, with a thesis in experimental high energy physics.
His scientific activity has been carried out primarily at CERN and DESY (Germany). Collaboration with USA groups at BNL (Brookhaven) and TJNAF Laboratory (Virginia) has fruitfully been established in the last decade.
Since the beginning of his career, he has had a keen interest in the experimental aspects of CERN physics programme of ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions. In this field, devoted to the study of the hot and dense medium formed by the coalescence of hundreds of protons and neutrons, he has been active in the NA35, WA97 and NA57 experiments at the SPS and, subsequently, in the conception and development of the ALICE experiment at the LHC.
In 2000, he joined the HERMES experiment at HERA-DESY, designed to study, through deep inelastic scatterings, the spin structure of the proton (or neutron). In HERMES, he drove the design of the first aerogel radiator RICH detector ever built in the world.
Few years ago, he redirected his interest towards medical imaging, which led him to join the AXPET collaboration at CERN whose aim is to develop an R&D program focused on a novel geometrical concept of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) featuring a parallax-free 3D reconstruction of the positron source distribution with high spatial and energy resolution over the complete Field of View. He chaired the Steering Board of the AXPET project until 2012.
He has been Director of the Bari Unit of INFN from 2006 to 2012, member of the Executive Board of INFN from 2012 to 2014 and Vice-President of INFN since 2014.
He is author and co-author of about 300 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals (H-index = 54; sum of times cited without self-citations: 10387, according to Web of Science) and he is reviewer of scientific journals, chief editor of EPJ Plus and member of International Scientific Advisory Committees and Organizing Committee in several Conferences and Workshops on Nuclear Physics instrumentation.
