Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati

Born in Rome (Italy), July 16th, 1941.
1964 Degree in physics
1976-2011 Full Professor, Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica and later Fisica Teorica, Università di Roma, "La Sapienza"
1993-1998 President of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
1997 President of the CERN Council, CERN, Geneva
1999-2003 Director General, CERN, Geneva
2008-2011 President of CNR (National Research Council), Italy
2011 President of the Scientific Council, ICTP, Trieste
2012 President, Commissione Grandi Rischi, Italia.

Doctor honoris causa c/0 the following Universities:
Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille (France) ; San Petesburgh (Russia) ; Bratislava (Slovakia) ; Warsaw (Poland) ; Benemerita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla (Mexico)

Affiliations
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio Nazionale Fellow, American Physical Society, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea Scienze ed Arti Accademia delle Scienze di Torino

Awards
1980 Matteucci Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei XL
1987 Prize "J.J. Sakurai" of the American Physical Society
2001 Gold Medal from the President of Italy to the Benemeritus of Science and Culture
2003 Prize Enrico Fermi, Italian National Physics Society
2007 Dirac Medal, ICTP Trieste
2009 Orden do Merito José Bonifacio, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
2011 The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
2011, European Physical Society
2014 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize, JINR Dubna, Russia

Scientific Results
Luciano Maiani is author or coauthor of over 200 scientific publications on the theory of Elementary Particles that have received until now more than 14 000 citations. He is author of several Lecture Notes and Rapporteur Talks. As from 2004, he is working in Meson Spectroscopy and in the analysis of signatures for the formation of Quark Gluon Plasma in Heavy ion Collisions. The most important scientific result of Luciano Maiani is the prediction of existence and properties of charmed particles (with S. L. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, 1970) as a necessary condition to avoid the unobserved flavour changing neutral currents. The proposed GIM mechanism has been crucial to the formulation of a gauge theory of the Electroweak Interactions. Charmed particles have been discovered a few years later (1976) with properties very close to those anticipated in the original GIM paper.

Science Management and International Collaboration
As President of INFN, has promoted approval and the first construction phases of the VIRGO Observatory for Gravitational Waves, in collaboration with the CNRS (France); During is mandate at CERN as Director General, the construction of the Large Hadron Collider has been carried on to a very advanced stage, with the closing of LEP, the completion of the civil works, the stipulation of the main contracts for the superconducting magnets, the final definition of the cost and the subsequent re-definiton of CERN’s long term plan and, finally, the definition of a long term loan from the European Investment Bank which has allowed to overcome the peak in the LHC expenditure with a constant annual budget. In the same period, the Long Base-Line Neutrino Beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso Laboratories, CNGS, some 730 kilometers south of Geneva has been approved and developed at CERN-INFN. The beam has become operational in summer 2006. On May 31, 2010, the OPERA Collaboration in Gran Sasso has announced one neutrino-tau event produced by the muonic neutrinos emitted at CERN, giving the first direct evidence of neutrino oscillation ever observed. During his term as president of CNR has reorganized the activities of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), previously suppressed and located inside CNR; has promoted an in-depth evaluation of the more than hundred CNR Institutes and supervised the attribution of more than eighty new Institute directorships; has coordinated the writing of the new regulations (Statuto). From 2005 to 2009, has coordinated the HELEN Project (High Energy physics Latinoamerican European Network), supported by the European Commission-ALFA Program (see http://www.roma1.infn.it/exp/helen/) and dedicated to the training of young physicists from Europe and Latin America. Activities in Europe were focused on CERN, DESY(Hamburg) and Laboratori del Gran Sasso (Italy). In Latin America on the Pierre Auger Observatory (Argentina) for the observation of the very high energy cosmic rays, which became operational in 2005. Participation in HELEN was shared between 22 Universities and Research Institutions in 8 Countries in Latin America, and between 17 Universities and Institutions and 6 Countries in Europe. Today, he is coordinating a new project of Latin America-Europe exchange called EPLANET (European Particle physics LatinoAmerican NETwork) within the Marie Curie Program (People) of FP7. .