Portrait of Prof. Dario Bisello

Academic profile

Prof. Dario Bisello

Experimental physicist specialising in particle detectors, radiation effects and scientific instrumentation

Editorial Board Member, AI and Brain

Formerly Professor at the University of Padova and researcher with INFN Padova. His scientific career has centred on experimental high-energy physics, silicon detector development, radiation-hard instrumentation and large international collaborations.

Profile

Dario Bisello is an experimental particle physicist whose work has linked detector physics, microelectronics, radiation effects and the development of research infrastructure.

In the 1990s he established the Padova Group for Radiation Imaging and Tracking (GRIT), originally to support the development of silicon microstrip sensors for the tracker of the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. This work required extensive research on detector materials and electronics capable of operating in severe radiation environments.

His broader activity has included silicon tracking detectors, monolithic pixel sensors, radiation-damage studies, irradiation facilities and instrumentation for the qualification of electronics used in particle physics and space applications. He has contributed to major international experiments and to the training of generations of physicists working in instrumentation and detector development.

Research and scientific service

Padova GRIT

Prof. Bisello founded the Padova GRIT group to develop and qualify silicon sensors for high-energy physics. The group later expanded its work to radiation imaging, tracking, advanced microelectronics and detector systems operating in hostile environments.

SIRAD irradiation facility

He played a leading role in the creation and scientific use of the SIRAD beamline at the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories. The facility supports studies of bulk damage, total ionising dose and single-event effects in detectors, electronic devices and systems.

Detector development

His work includes silicon microstrip trackers, thin CMOS and silicon-on-insulator pixel sensors, vertexing systems and radiation-hard readout technologies for present and future particle-physics experiments.

Editorial contribution

Within the Editorial Board of AI and Brain, he contributes broad experience in experimental methodology, scientific instrumentation, interdisciplinary evaluation and large-scale collaborative research.

Selected publications

The following papers illustrate some of the areas most closely associated with Prof. Bisello's scientific activity. Large-collaboration physics papers are not exhaustively listed.

  • Description and Performance of Track and Primary-Vertex Reconstruction with the CMS Tracker
    CMS Collaboration, Journal of Instrumentation 9 (2014) P10009. A widely cited account of tracking and vertex reconstruction in the CMS detector.
    DOI
  • Tracking and Vertexing with a Thin CMOS Pixel Beam Telescope
    M. Battaglia, D. Bisello et al. Study of charged-particle tracking and vertex reconstruction using thin monolithic CMOS pixel sensors.
    arXiv
  • Monolithic Pixel Sensors in Deep-Submicron SOI Technology
    M. Battaglia, D. Bisello et al. Development and characterisation of silicon-on-insulator monolithic sensors for particle detection and imaging.
    arXiv
  • Characterisation of a Pixel Sensor in 0.20 μm SOI Technology for Charged Particle Tracking
    M. Battaglia, D. Bisello et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 654 (2011) 258–265.
    arXiv
  • The SIRAD Irradiation Facility at LNL
    D. Bisello et al., AIP Conference Proceedings 1530 (2013) 66. Overview of the Legnaro facility for radiation-effects studies.
    DOI
  • Neutron Production Targets for a New Single Event Effects Facility at the 70 MeV Cyclotron of LNL-INFN
    D. Bisello et al., Physics Procedia 26 (2012) 284–293. Development of neutron-production targets for radiation-effects testing.
    DOI
  • Fast Neutrons at LNL Legnaro
    P. Mastinu, D. Bisello et al., Journal of Neutron Research 22 (2020). Description of fast-neutron capabilities at the Legnaro laboratories.
    DOI

Editorial Board role

Area of expertise: Experimental Physics and Instrumentation

Prof. Bisello serves on the Editorial Board of AI and Brain, bringing long experience in the assessment of experimental research, detector and sensor technologies, scientific collaboration and the translation of physical principles into robust measurement systems.

Professional contact

For correspondence concerning his role on the Editorial Board of AI and Brain, please contact the journal's editorial office and indicate “Prof. Dario Bisello” in the subject line.

Public researcher identifier: 0000-0002-2359-8477