CURRICULUM VITAE Alessandro Pascolini Date of Birth: January 2, 1944 Birthplace: Faedis (Udine), Italy Graduate in Physics, The University of Padua in 1967 Since 1967 Member, Padua theoretical physics group of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Nuclear Physics National Institute) 1968 Assistant Professor of Physics at the Padua University 1967-79 At first Tutorial Assistant at the University College Carlo Ederle and since 1972 Director of the College 1968-69 Grant Winner, Italian National Research Council 1968 Founder Member, ISODARCO (International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts). Since its inception he has covered the roles of Secretary, President and presently Vice-President) 1969 Awarded a Prize for Young Researchers by the Italian Physical Society Since 1970 Regularly takes part in seminars, workshops and other activities of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; 1973-1990 Secretary of the Italian Pugwash group 1970-82 At first Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Padua Publishing Company (CLEUP)and since 1979 President of it 1972-77 Scientific Secretary, the President of INFN with the specific task to investigate the scientific research activity of INFN and to assist the INFN governing bodies in shaping its scientific policy 1974-2002 Italian correspondent of the CERN-Courier 1979-83 Associate Professor of Physics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Udine. 1981-88 Co-ordinator of the Padua Group for a Project on "Analytical Methods and Calculation Techniques for the Study of Non-Linear Equations" 1981-85 Teacher in the Physics Post-graduate School at Padua University Since 1982 Associate Professor of Mathematical Methods in Physics, University of Padua 1983-2001 Auditor, Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science. 1988-2002 Responsible for activities Promoting the Scientific Culture, INFN - Director of the INFN Project for the dissemination of the scientific culture and the diffusion of the scientific output of the Institute through exhibitions, conferences, audiovisuals and the use of the mass media 1988-2000 Member, National Committee for the Study, Protection and Diffusion of the Scientific and Historical-Scientific Culture of the Italian Ministry for the Universities, Scientific and Technological Research 1997-2003 Member, European Particle Physics Outreach Network (EPPOG) since 1997 Member, Public Awareness of Nuclear Science (PANS) European group 1999-2003 Founder and Editor of the magazine “INFN Notizie, dai quark alle galassie” since 2000 Lecturer at the Master in Science Communication of the University of Padua 2000 Member, Working group on a publicity strategy for GEANT since 2003 Professor of “Science for peace” at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua 2004 Awarded the Outreach Prize 2004 of the HEPP-EPS Division Since 2005 Member, Scientific Committee for the Trieste Science Center Since 2005 Lecturer on "Armaments and Arm Control" at the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice
Alessandro Pascolini's activities Academic activities Alessandro Pascolini since 1968 is involved in the didactics of mathematical methods of physics at the University of Padua. Since academic year 2003, he his also teaching a course of “science for peace” at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He is also lecturer on "Armaments and Arm Control" at the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice He is giving lectures in courses for the Master in Science Communication of the Trieste International School for Advanced Studies, and of the Padua, Milan and Udine Universities. Research activities Pascolini's field of research is theoretical physics and mathematical physics, in particular nuclear physics, accelerator dynamics and non-linear phenomena, within the Theoretical Physics Group of the Padua Section of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). He is presently studying scattering and bound states of complex quantum systems. He is also interested in history of science and arms control. Activities for the promotion of scientific culture In Italy Pascolini, while serving as scientific secretary of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in the 1970s, promoted several initiatives for enhancing public awareness of high energy particle and nuclear physics, including production of exhibitions and multimedia in collaboration with the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. From 1986 to 2002 he has been responsible at national level of INFN activities promoting the scientific culture, assisting the INFN Presidents in defining the initiatives to reach this goal and directing and producing the actual events. He has been instrumental in promoting activities for raising public awareness of our science in several centers of INFN around Italy, convincing colleagues of the critical importance of outreach both for public education and for ensuring support to our research. He also created links with Italian science journalists and media. In this context he produced some 60 exhibitions in Italy and abroad, books, multimedia material, videos, CD and DVD audiovisuals. Exhibitions ranged from very large ones, as “l'infiinitamente piccolo”, Padua 1986 (2000 sq m.) or “quark 2000”, Rome 1997 (1600 sq m.), to compact ones suited to be exhibited in schools or to be shown within important cultural/economic exhibitions. In these exhibitions he follows all the work: he selects the contents, prepare iconography and texts, promotes local collateral activities and directs the actual production with professional designers and teams. For a list of main exhibition and of multimedia he produced in toto or in collaboration see annexes 1 and 2). He also produced the permanent exhibition hall at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. “INFN-Notizie”, the Magazine of the INFN he founded and edited, has been an important communication mean to political leaders, journalists, schools, economic world, scientific community. For INFN-Notizie he wrote several articles, edited all materials, found or produced the iconography. The web edition of the magazine with its search engine and the image archive was intensively used. He always paid particular attention to the role of images in communicating science to the public, collecting relevant and effective images and directing the production of new ones with designers and artists: several of them are widely used at international level. Of particular importance is also his collaboration with educators to introduce particle and nuclear physics into Italian high schools, and for the continuing training of school teachers. He promoted formal contacts and permanent collaboration with the Italian Association of Physics Teachers (AIF) and local initiatives in several towns; he has been member of the Italian Committee for Physics on Stage. He organized visits of teachers to CERN and to Gran Sasso laboratories. He also collaborates with local authorities for various initiatives related to modern science and he is one of the organizers of an annual exhibition-contest of science experiments by secondary school students of the Veneto region. As member of committees appointed by the Italian Minister of the University and of Scientific and Technologic Research for promoting public interest and education in science he was specially active for launching the Italian “Science and Technology Week”, which over the years has become the main initiative at National lever of science awareness. He collaborated with the Italian Foreign office in taking cure of the scientific part of general Italian exhibitions abroad, from Iran to South America, from Russia to Japan and Australia. He collaborated with the Galvani and Volta Committees in producing exhibitions to be shown by Italian Cultural Institutes around the world.
In Europe Pascolini collaborate with several European laboratories with exchange of materials and common productions. In co-operation with CERN he produced an exhibition on cosmic ray and underground physics, shown at CERN, DESY, Wuppertal, Stockholm and Athens, and the exhibition “Hadrons for health”, presented in more than 20 venues around Europe. He also collaborated to the first edition of the European exhibition on nuclear fusion. On the occasion of the European Science and Technology week 2000 he produced, in cooperation with IN2P3 and GSI, the exhibition “Radioactivity, a Facet of Nature”, shown in several venues in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary and Portugal. He has been an active member of the European panel for the promotion of public awareness of elementary particle physics EPPOG from its creation to 2003, and of the correspondent PANS network for nuclear physics. He took part, as responsible for the Italian participation and author of one section, in the European project for the production of the web-based science communication system NUPEX for nuclear science and its applications. He has been awarded the Outreach Prize 2004 of the HEPP-EPS Division by the High Energy Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society and the Executive Committee of the EPS. He is presently producing a new edition of the exhibition on nuclear fusion for the European Fusion Development Agreement | ||
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