Antonio Zoccoli

President, National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN

President of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) from 1 July 2019, Antonio Zoccoli is Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bologna. He has participated in nuclear and subnuclear physics experiments and has been a member of numerous international collaborations, at Rutherford Lab in the UK, CERN in Switzerland and the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2005 he has been a member of the ATLAS experiment collaboration at CERN, which together with the CMS collaboration announced the first observation of the Higgs boson in July 2012. Since June 2021 he has been President of the Council of Presidents of Public Research Institutions (ConPER) and since July 2022 he has been President of the Foundation ‘National Research Centre in High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing. 

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