Francesco Salamida

Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences
University of L'Aquila
via Vetoio 1, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
email: francesco.salamida@aquila.infn.it
Office hours for students:
Tue: 15.00 - 17.00

Curriculum Vitae

My research activity takes place primarily in the field of Astroparticle Physics, and in particular on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) Physics within the Pierre Auger Collaboration. Since 2014 I have also enlarged my scientific interests participating in the zero neutrino double decay (0νββ) experiment GERDA.

Current Position

  • Ricercatore Universitario, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Former Positions

  • 2014 - 2016 Contract/Postocdoral Fellow, University and INFN Milano Bicocca, Italy
  • 2011 - 2014 Research Fellow, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay and CNRS, Orsay, France
  • 2011 - 2011 Department of Physics and INFN, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
  • 2009 - 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and INFN, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Education

  • 2003 - 2007 Ph.D. in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Department of Physics and INFN, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy. “Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in AUGER: Hybrid Simulation and Reconstruction”
  • 1998 - 2003 Master Degree in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Department of Physics and INFN, Università di Lecce, Lecce, Italy. “Study of the gamma/hadron discrimination in the ARGO-YBJ experiment”

Professional Responsibilities

  • 2010 - 2015 Leader of the Hybrid Spectrum task within the Pierre Auger Collaboration
  • since 22012 Member of the Telescope Array Auger joint Spectrum Working Group set up at the International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics at CERN
  • since 22012 Referee for the scientific journal “ Astroparticle Physics” edited by Elsevier
  • since 22012 Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal: “Journal of Astrophysics” edited by Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Selected Papers

  1. "The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A798 (2015) 172-213
  2. "First Experimental Characterization of Microwave Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers" CROME Collaboration, Phys.Rev.Lett. 113 (2014) no.22, 221101
  3. "Interpretation of the Depths of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers Measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory", Pierre Auger Collaboration, JCAP 1302 (2013) 026
  4. "SimProp: a Simulation Code for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Propagation" R. Aloisio, D. Boncioli, A.F. Grillo, S. Petrera, F. Salamida, JCAP 1210 (2012) 007
  5. "The exposure of the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Astropart.Phys. 34 (2011) 368-381
  6. "Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 1018eV", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Phys.Rev.Lett. 104 (2010) 091101
  7. "Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 1018eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B685 (2010) 239-246
  8. "The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A620 (2010) 227-251
  9. "Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4×1019eV", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Phys.Rev.Lett. 101 (2008) 061101
  10. "Measurement of the pressure dependence of air fluorescence emission induced by electrons", AIRFLY Collaboration, Astropart.Phys. 28 (2007) 41-57
  11. "Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects", Pierre Auger Collaboration, Science 318 (2007) 938-943
  12. "Background-free search for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of 76 Ge with GERDA", GERDA Collaboration, Nature 544, 7648 (2017) 47-52

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