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Vittorio Lubicz

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Personal Details

• Name: Vittorio Lubicz

• Date and Place of Birth: 3^rd May 1965, Rome, Italy

• Nationality: Italian

• Work Address: Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica,
  Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy.
  Tel.: +39-06-5733-7307

• E-Mail Address: vittorio.lubicz@uniroma3.it

• Home page: http://webusers.fis.uniroma3.it/~lubicz

Education and Academic Career

• Since May 2015: Full Professor of Theoretical Physics
  Department of Mathematics and Physics, University Roma Tre, Italy.

• December 2002 - April 2015: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
  Department of Physics and, since January 2013, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University Roma Tre, Italy.

• November 1996 - December 2002: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore universitario)
  Permanent reserach position on Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Methods of Physics
  Physics Department, University Roma Tre, Italy.

• May 1994 - May 1996: Post-doctoral Fellowship
  of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) for researches in high-energy theoretical physics
  Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• September 1994: Ph.D. Degree in Physics
  University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.
  Title of the Ph.D. thesis: Production and decay of neutral pseudo-Goldstone bosons of Technicolor and Extended Technicolor theories in high energy e⁺e^- collisions. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. L.Maiani.

• July 1990: University Degree in Physics, 110/110 cum Laude
  University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.
  Title of the final year dissertation (Tesi di Laurea): Weak semi-leptonic decays of D-mesons and decay constant of B-meson in Lattice QCD. Supervisor: Prof. G.Martinelli.

Brief description of Scientific Activity

My research activity is in the field of theoretical elementary particles physics and concerns the phenomenology of fundamental interactions, in the Standard Model and beyond. The main topics of my research interests are flavor physics, non-perturbative QCD, weak interactions, CP violation and physics beyond the Standard Model. In this context, I have performed non-perturbative calculations based on numerical simulations of Lattice QCD, perturbative calculations and phenomenological analysis.

I am co-founder member of the international UTfit Collaboration (phenomenological analysis of flavor physics and fits of the unitarity triangle) and ETMC - European Twisted Mass Collaboration (numerical simulations of lattice QCD), and I have been co-founder member of FLAG - Flavour Lattice Averaging Group (reviews and world averages of lattice QCD results).

I have presented more than 30 invited talks at international conferences, among which plenary review talks at Chiral Dynamics 2015 (Pisa, Italia), Kaon 2013 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), Lepton-Photon 2011 (Mumbai, India), Lattice 2009 (Beijing, China), Lattice 2004 (Fermilab, Illinois, USA), Lattice 2000 (Bangalore, India), Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2010 (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, Rome, Italy), Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2006 (Munich, Germany). I served as a member of the organizing committee and convenor of several international conferences and workshops.

I perform regular referee activity for various scientific international journals and evaluations of research projects for the Italian ministry MIUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. I have evaluated research projects for the I have evaluated research projects for several scientific institutions abroad, among which the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union, the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States, the Royal Society of United Kingdom and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

I am author or co-author of more than 120 published papers on international refereed journals and of a similar number of conference proceedings. According to the INSPIRES database, 5 of these papers have collected more than 500 citations, 8 more than 250 citations and 35 more than 100 citations, with an average number of 66 citations per paper, 117 citations per publication on refereed journals, and a total number of about 17.000 citations with h-index = 65.

I am included in the list of Top Italian Scientists published by the VIA-Academy, in 49-th position in Physics for h-index = 69 on the Google Scholar database

I also enjoy the activity of science communication. I held many public lectures on topics of modern physics, particularly on the subjects of Quantum Mechanics, Time in physics and the Origin of mass. I also participated as a theoretical physicist to educational programs on the RAI, the national Italian TV. I regularly give seminars and series of lectures addressed to high school teachers or students. I'm coauthor of a textbook on Thermodynamics addressed to students of the high school.

Selected Invited Talks

• CABIBBO 60, The Cabibbo Angle 60 Years Later.
  Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Italy, December 4, 2023.
  Title of the talk: Phenomenology of Weak Interactions on the Lattice.

• CHIRAL DYNAMICS 2015, The 8th International Workshop On Chiral Dynamics.
  Pisa, Italy, June 29 - July 3, 2015.
  Title of the talk: QED corrections to hadronic processes in lattice QCD.

• KAON 2013, Kaon Physics International Conference.
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, April 29 - May 1, 2013.
  Title of the talk: Determination of Vus: Recent Input from the Lattice.

• LEPTON PHOTON 2011, The XXV International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies.
  Mumbai, India, August, 22-27 2011.
  Plenary review talk on: Lattice QCD

• HEAVY QUARKS AND LEPTONS 2010.
  INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome, Italy, October 11-15 2010.
  Title of the talk: The CKM analysis: inputs from theory.

• XI SuperB Workshop.
  Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome, Italy, December 1-4 2009.
  Title of the talk: Lattice QCD in the SuperB era

• LATTICE 2009, The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory.
  Beijing, China, July 25-31, 2009.
  Plenary review talk on: Kaon Physics from Lattice QCD

• IV SuperB Workshop.
  Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy, November 13-15 2006.
  Title of the talk: CKM fit and lattice QCD.

• HEAVY QUARKS AND LEPTONS 2006.
  Munich, Germany, October 16-20 2006.
  Title of the talk: Lattice QCD, Flavor Physics and the Unitarity Triangle Analysis.

• First Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics.
  Anacapri, Italy, May 29-31 2006.
  Title of the talk: Lattice QCD confronts the Unitarity Triangle Fit.

• DESY Theory Workshop 2005: "Quantum Chromodynamics: from the MeV to the TeV Scale".
  DESY, Hamburg, Germany, September 27-30, 2005.
  Title of the talk: Lattice QCD and flavor physics.

• Galileo Galilei Institute Inaugural Conference.
  Arcetri, Florence, Italy, September 19-21, 2005.
  Title of the talk: Lattice gauge theory and flavor physics.

• LATTICE 2004, The XXII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory.
  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA June 21-26, 2004.
  Plenary review talk on: The role of Lattice QCD in flavor physics

• Lattice QCD: Present and Future.
  Orsay, France, 14-16 April 2004.
  Title of the talk: The Unitarity Triangle Analysis and its Theoretical Input Parameters.

• CKM03, Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle.
  Second Meeting, Durham, UK, 5-9 April 2003.
  Title of the talk: Unitarity Triangle Fits in the Standard Model and Sensitivity to New Physics.

• Workshop on Fermion Actions and Chiral Symmetry.
  Berna, Switzerland, 16-19 October 2002.
  Title of the talk: Quark masses from lattice QCD.

• 5th International Conference on "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum".
  Gargnano, Garda Lake, 10-14 September 2002.
  Title of the talk: Light quark masses from lattice QCD.

• Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle.
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-16 February 2002.
  Title of the talk: Non-perturbative determinations of theoretical parameters for the CKM-triangle analysis.

• LATTICE 2000, The XVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory.
  Bangalore, India, 17-22 August 2000.
  Plenary review talk on: Quark Masses on the Lattice: Light and Heavy.

• PIC20, XX Physics in Collision Conference.
  Lisbon, Portugal, June 29 - July 1, 2000.
  Title of the talk: Phenomenology of the Standard Model from Lattice QCD".

• Workshop on Fermions, Disorder and Extended Objects on the Lattice.
  Benasque, Spanish Pyrenees, January 30 - February 4, 2000.
  Title of the talk: Standard Model Phenomenology from Lattice QCD.

• QCD 98 Euroconference.
  Montpellier, France, 2-8 July 1998.
  Title of the talk: Quark Masses and CKM Matrix Elements from Lattice QCD.

• APCTP-ICTP First Joint International Conference on Recent Development in Non-perturbative Methods in Field Theory.
  Seoul, Korea, 26-30 May 1997.
  Title of the talk: Determination of Standard Model Parameters from Lattice QCD.

• 11th Rencontre de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste on Results and Perspective in Particle Physics.
  La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 2-8 March 1997.
  Title of the talk: Phenomenology of Weak Interactions from Lattice QCD.

• APS Conference Physics Computing '95.
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 5-8 June 1995.
  Title of the talk: Weak Decays of B-mesons on the Lattice.

Invited Lectures at Schools, Master and Ph.D. courses

• Master of II level in "Teaching Innovation in Physics and Orientation", IDIFO21
  Università di Udine, Italy, May-June 2022. Live streaming lectures.
  Title of the course: A modern approach to gravity: from Kepler's laws to black holes.
  In collaboration with Ilaria De Angelis and Adriana Postiglione (Università Roma Tre)

• ASTRE - Alta Scuola Roma Tre
  Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 2-6 December, 2013.
  Title of the lectures: Uncertainty and vagueness in the quantum world.
  In collaboration with Mauro Dorato (Università Roma Tre) and Gian Carlo Ghirardi (Professor Emeritus, Università di Trieste)

• Piccola ASTRE - Alta Scuola Roma Tre
  Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 7-10 May, 2012.
  Title of the lectures: The concepts of Space and Time in modern physics.
  In collaboration with Mauro Dorato (Università Roma Tre) and Carlo Rovelli (Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille)

• Spring Course on "Lattice Simulations of Quantum Fields" of the International Graduate School Paris-Bielefeld, GRK 881, "Quantum Fields and Strongly Interacting Matter"
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Universite Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France, March 26 - April 1, 2008.
  Title of the lectures: Physics of flavours and Lattices.

• XI LNF Spring School in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics
  INFN National Laboratories in Frascati, Italy, 15-19 May, 2006.
  Title of the lectures: Flavor physics and Lattice QCD in 2006.

• XIII Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica
  Parma, Italy, 30 August-10 September 2004.
  Title of the lectures: Flavor physics and Lattice QCD.

Organization of Scientific Conferences

• Participation to Organizing Commettes

• Organizing Committee of the Conference
  CABIBBO 60: The Cabibbo Angle 60 Years Later.
  Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Italy, December 4, 2023.

• Local Organizing Committee of
  LATTICE 2010, The XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
  Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, 14-19 June 2010.

• Organizing Committee of the Workshop
  apeNEXT: Computational Challenges and First Physics Results.
  The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Firenze, 8-10 February, 2007.

• Organizing Committee of the Conference
  LEPTRE, XIII Convegno sulla fisica di LEP.
  Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 18-20 April 2001.

• Organizing Committee of the Workshop
  From APE100 to APEmille: Results and Perspectives.
  LNF-Frascati, Rome, Italy, 17-19 February 1997.

• Participation to International Advisory Committees

• International Advisory Committee of
  KAON 2022, International Conference on Kaon Physics 2022
  Osaka, Japan, September 2022.

• International Advisory Committee of
  KAON 2019, International Conference on Kaon Physics 2019
  Perugia, Italy, 10-13 September 2019.

• International Advisory Committee of
  LATTICE 2008, The XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
  Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 14-19 July 2008.

• International Advisory Committee of
  LATTICE 2005, The XXIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
  Dublin, Ireland, 25th-30th July 2005.

• Activity as a Convenor

• XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
  convenor of the session Light quarks
  Maynooth University, Ireland, 1-6 August 2018.

• B2TIP, The Belle II Theory Interface Platform
  member of the Lattice QCD board and coordinator of the Working Group 9 on New Physics
  June 2014 - End of 2016.

• CKM 2006, 4th International Workshop on the Unitarity Triangle
  convenor of the Physics Working Group 3 on Vtd/Vts through Mixings and Rare B and K Decays
  Nagoya, Japan, 12-16 December 2006.

• CKM 2005, Workshop on the Unitarity Triangle
  convenor of the Physics Working Group 1 on the Determination of the Cabibbo angle
  San Diego, California (USA), 15-18 March 2005.

• HEP2003, EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
  convenor of the session Non-perturbative field theory
  Aachen, Germany, 17-23 July 2003.

• IFAE 2002, XIV Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie
  convenor of the session Heavy Quark Physics
  Parma, Italy, 3-5 April 2002.

Referee Activity

• I perform regular referee activity for the following international journals: Journal of High Energy Physics; Nuclear Physics B; Physical Review D; Physical Review Letters. Occasionally for The Review of Particle Physics of the PDG.

• I serve as a referee for MIUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, for various kinds of research projects (as PRIN, Futuro in Ricerca and Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini").

• I have served as a referee for ANVUR - Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della ricerca, for the national Research Quality Evaluation VQR 2015-19.

• I have served as a referee for projects submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) .

• I am included in the list of experts of PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.

Long Term Visits

• CNRS, Universitè Paris-Sud XI, Laboratoire de Physique Thèorique, Orsay, France:
  - May 2017 (1 month)
  - June 2013 (1 month)
  - April - May 2011 (2 months)
  

Coordination or Participation to Funded Projects

• National Projects

• PRIN 2022, Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest, Principal Investigator, title: Non-perturbative aspects of fundamental interactions, in the Standard Model and beyond.

• PRIN 2015, Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest, Scientific Coordinator of the Unit of Roma Tre, title: Search for the Fundamental Laws and Constituents.

• PRIN 2010-2011, Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest, Scientific Coordinator of the Unit of Roma Tre, title: Symmetries, Masses and Mysteries: Electroweak symmetry breaking, flavor mixing, CP violation and Dark Matter in the LHC era.

• PRIN 2008, Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest, Scientific Coordinator of the Unit of Roma Tre (in substitution of prof. G. Altarelli), title: Particle physics in the LHC time: theoretical models, precision calculations and simulation methods.

• PRIN 2004, Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest, Scientific Coordinator of the Unit of Roma Tre, title: New physics and precision physics at accelerators: frontier problems in the theory of the fundamental interactions.

• Participant to the Scientific Research Programs of Relevant National Interest PRIN 1997, PRIN 1999, PRIN 2001, PRIN 2006.

• European Projects

• FLAVIANET, Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Community, contract MRTN-CT-2006-035482 concluded on 01/10/2006, with duration of 48 months. Scientific Staff.

• HEPTOOLS, Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Community, contract MRTN-CT-2006-035505 concluded on 01/12/2006, with duration of 48 months. Scientific Staff.

• HADRON PHENOMENOLOGY FROM LATTICE QCD, EU IHP Network funded by the European Community, contract HPRN-CT-2000-00145 concluded on 01/10/2000, with duration of 36 months. Scientific Staff.

Other Professional Activities

• Participation to selection committees and other positions at the national level

• Chairman of the Evaluation Committees for the recruitment of Full Professors:
  - University of L'Aquila, September 2019.
  - University Roma Tre, June-July 2018.

• Chairman of the Evaluation Committees for the recruitment of Assistant Professors (Ricercatori tipo b):
  - University Roma Tre, June-September 2016.

• Chairman of the Evaluation Committees for the recruitment of Assistant Professors non tenured (Ricercatore tipo a):
  - University of Roma ``La Sapienza", June-October 2018.
  - University Roma Tre, June-October 2018.
  - University Roma Tre, May-July 2017.

• Member of the Evaluation Committees for the call of Associate Professors:
  - University of Pisa, June-October 2018.
  - University of Padova, June-July 2017.
  - University of Parma, September-October 2016.

• Member of the Evaluation Committees for the recruitment of an Assistant Professor (Ricercatore tipo b):
  - University of Roma "Tor Vergata", January-April 2018.

• Member of the Working Group for the Evaluation (GLV, Gruppo di Lavoro sulla Valutazione) of the INFN, February 2011 - November 2015.

• Member of the national judging committee for the confirmation in role of the University Researchers, January 2008 - December 2009.

• Chairman of the Selection Committee of the INFN to award fellowships for graduate students. July 2006.

• Positions in the Department

• Current positions

• Chairman of the Physics Graduation Committee.

• Member of the Teaching Committee of the Ph.D. in Physics.

• Previous positions

• Chairman of the Physics Teaching Committee, responsible of the Physics Courses, November 2015 - November 2018.

• Vice-director of the Department, November 2015 - April 2017.

• Member of the Executive Committee (Giunta di Dipartimento), November 2015 - November 2018.

• Member of the Scientific Planning Committee, February 2013 - November 2018.

Activity of Science Communication

• Held many seminars and lectures on topics of modern physics, particularly on the subjects of Quantum Mechanics, Time in physics and the Origin of mass, addressed to general public, to high school teachers or students. Some of these lectures are available online on You Tube.

• Participations as a physicist to the educational program #maestri on the national Italian TV Rai Tre, on the subjects of Quantum Mechanics (April and November 2020), Time in physics (April 2020) and the Origin of mass (November 2020). The recordings are available online on Rai Play.

• Teacher of the Online course in Modern Physics, part on Quantum Physics, addressed to the teachers of high school, organized within the LS-OSA project (Liceo Scientifico/Opzione Scienze Applicate) promoted by MIUR, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. The course has been followed by more than 1000 high school teachers. May 2016.

• Author of articles of science communication (in Italian) published on the journals Asimmetrie of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), available online, and Giornale di Fisica of the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF), available online.

Brief description of Educational Activity

• Held the undergraduate courses "Quantum Mechanics", "Quantum Phyisics" and "Elements of Theoretical Physics". Academic years 1999/2000 and since 2001/02.
• Held the undergraduate courses "Elements of Contemporary Theoretical Physics". Academic years since 2015/16.
• Held the tutorials of the undergraduate courses "Elements of Theoretical Physics" and "Theoretical Physics". Academic years 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998/99, 2000/01.
• Held the Ph.D. Physics course "Advanced course on the Standard Model - Part II: Flavor Physics and Lattice QCD". Years since 2015.
• Supervisor of 21 first level and 9 second level laurea degree thesis in physics or mathematics, and supervisor of 9 Ph.D. thesis in physics.
• Member of various Ph.D. committees and juries in Italy (Università Roma Tre, Roma "La Sapienza", Parma) and abroad (Universitè Paris XI Orsay, Universidad de Valencia, University of Cyprus, Universitè de Provence Aix-Mareseille I)

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