Massimo Altarelli

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Massimo Altarelli (born February 12, 1948 ) is an Italian physicist and science manager in major European research . The focus of his research work is theoretical solid-state physics and the application of synchrotron radiation .

Career

After graduating from school in 1965, Altarelli studied physics and received his doctorate in 1969 from the University of Rome. After completing his doctorate, he continued to work in Rome on a grant from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche . In 1971 he moved to the United States, where he accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Rochester (1971–1973). He then moved to the University of Illinois , where he stayed until 1979 and was first Research Assistant Professor , then Assistant Professor and finally Associate Professor .

Altarelli left the USA in 1980, took a position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and became C3 professor in 1984.

In 1987 he was scientific director of the then being planned synchrotron radiation source ESRF in Grenoble . In this position he accompanied the construction of the laboratory and its commissioning until 1993. From 1994 to 1999 he was head of the research group for theoretical physics at ESRF, which he set up, and then from 1999 to 2006 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste and as Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of the Italian Synchrotron ELETTRA .

In 2006 he returned to Germany in connection with the planning for the European Free Electron Laser (XFEL) in Hamburg, where he initially became Leading Scientist at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg. In 2009 he became Managing Director of the European XFEL . He retired in December 2016. His successor was the Danish physicist Robert Feidenhans'l .

Altarelli has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1993 .

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Massimo Altarelli. Research-TV, accessed on February 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Prof. Massimo Altarelli. (No longer available online.) European XFEL , archived from the original on November 18, 2015 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Robert Feidenhans'l starts as Chairman of the European XFEL Management Board. (No longer available online.) European XFEL , January 6, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on June 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Altarelli, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist and science manager in major European research
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1948