Gigi Rolandi

Gigi Rolandi is a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration and a Senior Research Physicist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), where he has conducted research since 1975. Since 2008 he is teaches Experimental high Energy Physics at Scuola Normale Supriore in Pisa. Dr. Rolandi studied physics and experimental high energy physics at the exclusive Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Under his thesis advisor, Lorenzo Foà, he participated in the R&D, construction and commissioning of the drift chambers and the Cherenkov detectors of the NA1 experiment, installed in the H4 beam line of the CERN SPS, and later in the analyses for the determination of charmed hadrons lifetimes, using for the first time an active silicon target. At the age of 25, Dr. Rolandi was offered an assistant professorship at the University of Trieste and started a new HEP group that participated in the NA1 and NA7 Collaborations. In the NA7 experiment, he contributed t