PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name, First name:                D’Alesio, Umberto  

Researcher unique identifier:           orcid.org/0000-0002-2706-320X

Date and place of birth:                    May 16, 1967, Torino (Italy)           

Nationality:                                       Italian                        

EDUCATION

1996                           PhD in Physics – University of Torino (Italy), Thesis: Charm production in electroweak deep inelastic scattering processes: theory and phenomenology. Advisors: Profs. V. Barone and E. Predazzi

1993                           Master Degree in Physics (summa cum laude and “menzione d’onore”), University of Torino (Italy), Thesis: Standard Model: radiative corrections in Γ(Z0 → ff) and Γ (Z0 → ff γ). Advisor: Prof. G. Passarino

CURRENT POSITION

2022 – today   Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Cagliari U.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2014 – 2022   Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Cagliari U.

2002 – 2014   Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Cagliari U.

1999 – 2002   Post-doc Researcher, Cagliari U.

1996 – 1998   Post-doc Researcher (European Research Network “Hadron Physics with High

                       Energy Electromagnetic Probes”), Heidelberg U. (Germany)          

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

2022 – today   Director of the PhD School in Physics, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2021 – today   Member of the Physics Department Council, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2019 – today   Scientific Coordinator of the Cagliari INFN Theory Group, Member of the INFN National Scientific Theory Committee (CSN4)

2018 – 2022   Deputy Coordinator of the PhD School in Physics, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2014 – today  Member of the Physics Degree Council, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2008 – 2010   Chair of the Committee for the Programme of Quality Assurance for the Degree in Physics, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2005 – today  Member of the PhD board in Physics, Cagliari U. (Italy)  

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2024               Member of the Jury for the PhD Defense in Theoretical Physics, Complutense U.,Madrid (Spain)

2023 – today  (Co)Chair of the Committee for the VQR procedure (Research Quality Assessment), Physics Department, Cagliari U., Italy [Co-chair 2020-2023]

2023 – 2024   Member of the Erasmus Commission, Cagliari U.

2023               Reviewer for the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID) for the 2024 Regular Fondecyt National Projects Competition

2021               External referee for the National Science Center, Poland

2020 – today  Member of the Referee Board of the INFN National Scientific Theory Committee (CSN4)

2020               Member of the Selection Committee for a position of Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Theoretical Physics, Torino U., Member of the Jury for the PhD Defense in Theoretical Physics, Pavia U.

2018 – 2020   Member of the Selection Board for post-doctoral positions (INFN, Cagliari)

2018               Member of the Selection Committee for a position of Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Theoretical Physics, Perugia U. (Italy)

2017 – today  Member of the Research Committee, Physics Department, Cagliari U.  

2015               External referee for the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO (Belgium)

2015               External referee for the Rosalind Franklin Fellowship Programme, (Netherlands)

2013               Member of the Jury for the PhD Defense in Theoretical Physics, Complutense U.,Madrid (Spain)

2011 – today  Member of the Expert Peer Reviewer Panel for Italian Scientific Evaluation

2007               Member of the Selection Committee for a position of Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics, Pavia U. (Italy)

2003 – 2007   Member of the internal Research Funding Committee, Physics Department, Cagliari U. (Italy)

Reviewer for Advances in High Energy Physics, European Physical Journal A&C, Journal of  High Energy Physics, Modern Physics Letters A, Physica A, Physics Letters B, Physical Review C&D, Physical Review Letters

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

4 post-docs, 3 PhD, 10 Master and more than 20 Diploma Students in Physics, Cagliari U.  

TEACHING, HIGH-FORMATION AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES  

- More than 40 one-semester courses

Degrees in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biotechnology and Master Degree in Physics:

Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, Phenomenology of Strong Interactions

2017 – today   Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Asimov Award" for Educational Scientific Publishing, Italy, Italy (http://asimov.gssi.it/)

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (last 5 years)

2024  Convener of the Spin Session, Diffraction and Low-x 2024, Palermo (Italy)

2024  Member of the IAC, QCD Evolution 2024, Pavia (Italy)

2024  Member of the LOC, Transversity 2024, Trieste (Italy)

2023  Chair of the 3rd Sardinian Workshop on Spin (Sar WorS 2023), Pula, CA (Italy)

2023  Convener of the Session "New Facilities”, Hadron 2023, Genova (Italy)

2022  Convener of the Spin Session, Diffraction and Low-x 2022, Cosenza (Italy)

2021-22 Member of the LOC, Transversity 2022, Pavia (Italy)

2021  Chair of the 2nd Sardinian Workshop on Spin (Sar WorS 2021), Cagliari (Italy)          

2019  Chair of the 1st Sardinian Workshop on Spin (Sar WorS 2019), Cagliari, (Italy)

QUALIFICATIONS AWARDED

2020 – 2029    National Scientific Qualification as full professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions (Italy)  

2014 – 2023    National Scientific Qualification as full professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions (Italy)  

2014 – 2023    National Scientific Qualification as associate professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions (Italy)  

2012                National Scientific Qualification as associate professor in Theoretical Physics (Spain)  

PARTICIPATION/LEADERSHIP IN (INTER)NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

2023 – today  Participant, PRIN 2022 Project Prototaste - Tasting the flavor of the proton in its full dimensions, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2022 – 2024    Participant, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, “Matter-antimatter asymmetry and polarisation in strange hadrons at LHCb”, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2020 – 2022    Participant, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, Proton tomography at the LHC, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2018 – 2024   Scientific Coordinator of the Cagliari unit for the Working Package “TMD-Next” within the European Project “Strong-2020” The new European project at the forefront of strong interaction studies, Horizon-2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme (funded 2019)

2018 – 2020   PI, Projects funded by Fondazione Sardegna, “Quarkonium Production at LHC energies”, Cagliari U. (Italy)

2018               Co-proponent of The LHCSpin Project, presented for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU 2020)

2017 – today   Member of the Theory Advisory Group of the PANDA experiment at GSI, Germany

2016 – today   Member of the EIC User Group (Electron Ion Collider Project), USA

2015 – today  Member of the SoLID Collaboration at Jefferson Lab, USA

2014 – today Participant, INFN research project NINPHA National INitiative on Physics of HAdrons

2012 – 2014   Participant, European Integrated Infrastructure Activity of the EC FP7 programme HadronPhysics3 “Study of Strongly Interacting Matter”, Cagliari U.

2010 – 2012    Participant, Research Project of National Interest (PRIN 2008) “The structure of the nucleon: transverse moment, transverse spin and orbital angular momentum” 

2009 – 2011   Co-PI, Project funded by University of Cagliari (start-up young researchers) String and Gauge theory duality: formal aspects and phenomenological implications

2005 – today   Member of the PAX Collaboration http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0505054

2004 – 2014   Participant, European Integrated Infrastructure Activity of the EC FP6 & FP7 programmes HadronPhysics (HP2, HP3) Study of Strongly Interacting Matter

2004 – 2008   Participant, European Integrated Infrastructure Activity of the EC FP6 programme HadronPhysics “Study of Strongly Interacting Matter”, Cagliari U.

2003 – 2005    Participant, Research Project of National Interest (PRIN 2003) “Theory of nuclei and of many body systems, Cagliari U.

2001 – 2003    Participant, Research Project of National Interest (PRIN 2001) “Theory of nuclei and of many body systems”, Cagliari U.

1997 – 2014   Participant, INFN research projects TO21 – TO31 “Spin Physics and the Proton Structure”

Main interests

Hadron physics in perturbative QCD, with special attention to spin and polarisation effects in high-energy processes; Three-dimensional structure of the nucleon

Most important scientific achievements

- First extraction of the transversity distribution from a global fit of data on azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and e+e- processes within a Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) approach;

- First extraction of the polarizing fragmentation function (FF) from e+e- data within a TMD approach;

- Systematic phenomenological analysis within a TMD approach of semi-inclusive processes and extraction of important TMD distributions;

- Extension of the TMD scheme to inclusive processes in pp collisions;

- First extraction of the gluon Sivers function from transverse single-spin asymmetries in pp collisions;

- Study of the universality of the Collins function in pp→ π jet X and the polarizing FF in in pp→ Λ jet X;  

- Study of of initial- and final-state interactions in pion, photon, pion-jet, charmonium and open charm production in pp collisions and their role in the extraction of the quark and gluon Sivers functions;

- First TMD global analysis at NNLL accuracy of pT spectra in DY processes and Z production;

- Study of gluon TMDs in quarkonium production in lepton-proton processes at the EIC.

- Co-author of about 70 publications (6 as invited review papers) in international referred journals

- Author/Co-author of more than 50 national/international conference proceedings

- Presenter of about 50 talks at (inter)national workshops (more than 30 as invited speaker)

- Co-author of 5 physics feasibility studies

- Co-editor, Proceedings of “Transversity 2014” (2014)

- Co-editor, Proceedings of “Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum” (2004)

INVITED presentations at international Conferences/Schools (last 5 years)

Transverse polarization of Λ within a jet in unpolarized hadron-hadron collision; QCD Evolution Workshop 2024, Pavia, Italy, May 2024

Transverse Λ polarization in in e+e-annihilation and SIDIS processes within a TMD approach; Workshop on Resummation, Evolution, Factorization (REF 2023), Madrid, Spain, Oct 2023

Transverse Λ polarization in in e+e-annihilation and SIDIS processes within a TMD framework; Workshop on TMDs: Towards a synergy between Lattice QCD and Global analyses, Center for Frontier in Nuclear Physics, Stony Brook (NY), June 2023

Two-hadron production in in e+e- collisions within a TMD approach and the Λ polarizing fragmentation function; QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD-N 2021), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, Oct 2021

Hadron production in e+e- collisions within a TMD approach and the Λ polarizing fragmentation function; QCD Evolution Workshop 2021, Los Angeles (USA), May 2021

Chairman of the Round Table on TMDs at the International Workshop Quarkonia as Tools, Aussois, France, Jan 2020

Languages

Italian             Mother tongue

English           fluent

Spanish          fluent