Alessandra Fantoni joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 07 April 2025

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Alessandra Fantoni, as the new representative of the European Physical Society.

Professor Alessandra Fantoni is a Senior Researcher at the INFN Frascati National Laboratories (LNF).

She has been involved in the HERMES experiment at DESY since its inception in 1992, initially as a PhD student working on the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter. Her role evolved over time, and she eventually became the Run Coordinator in 2007, as well as the Technical Coordinator and Deputy Spokesperson.
After the closure of HERA, she joined the ALICE Collaboration to study nuclear collisions at the ultra-relativistic energies provided by the LHC. Within ALICE, she served as the European and EuroAsian Coordinator for EMCAL (2008-2010) and for DCAL (2010-2012), as well as the Deputy Project Leader for the electromagnetic calorimeters (2012-2022). She has also been involved in the upgrade of the Inner Tracking System (ITS2) since 2015, overseeing the construction of staves for the Outer Barrel at LNF. The new ITS2 was successfully installed in 2021 during the LHC Long Shutdown 2.
She was an elected member of the ALICE Management Board (2020-2022) and will serve as the next ALICE Collaboration Chair from July 2025 to June 2028.

Currently, she is the Chair of the European Physical Society (EPS) Nuclear Physics Division, having previously served as the Scientific Secretary (2021-2022) and Deputy Chair (2023). She is an elected member of the EPS Executive Committee since May 2023.

Carlos Damián Rodríguez Fernández new representative of the EPS Young Minds in EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 07 March 2025

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Carlos Damián Rodríguez Fernández, as the representative of the EPS Young Minds which joined the Scientific Advisory Committee last year. He is replacing Mattia Ostinato.

Carlos Damián Rodríguez Fernández is a post-doctoral researcher in the Paulo Ferreira's group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL, Braga, Portugal), where he works studying at the molecular level the interfacial structure and interactions of ionic liquids with electrode materials for advanced batteries. He is also part of the Mesturas Group of the University of A Coruña (UDC, A Coruña, Spain) and a member of the Action Committe of the EPS Young Minds Programme since 2022.

Aleksi Kurkela joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 05 December 2024

The Scientific Advisory Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Professor Aleksi Kurkela, as the new representative for the Norwegian Physical Society.

Aleksi Kurkela is an associate professor at the University of Stavanger, specializing in the intersection of high-energy nuclear and particle physics. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary connections between heavy-ion collisions and the physics of neutron stars.