Sandro Palestini is a CERN Senior Staff Physicist.
He completed his PhD studies at Princeton University with a thesis on Muon pair production in hadronic collisions (Fermilab E-615).
He joined INFN-Torino and worked on the experiment Fermilab E-760, devoted to Charmonium states formed in antiproton-proton collisions.
In 1990 he started working on CP Violation in neutral Kaon decays with the project NA48 at CERN. He contributed to the design of the experiment, was responsible for the electrode structure of the liquid Krypton calorimeter, and was coordinator of the first physics run in 1997.
Since 1996 he is a CERN staff physicist. He joined ATLAS in 1999.
His main activities have included test and development programs in the North Area and in the GIF facility, design of the gas system for the MDT chambers, and coordination of the integration of the End Cap region of the Muon spectrometer.
He has been Deputy Project Leader of the ATLAS-Muon System in 2005-2008, and Chair of the ATLAS-Muon Institute Board in 2008-2010.
He has been convener of the B-physics/Light-States working group of the ATLAS experiment in 2011-2013 and 2015-2017.
He has been Group Leader of the CERN ATLAS Detector Group in 2010-2013.
He has been member of the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) of the International Linear Collider and of the Physics and Detector Advisory Group (PDAP) of the Linear Collider Collaboration.
He is member of International Advisory Committee of the conference series
B-Physics at Frontier Machines (BEAUTY), and of the Program Advisory Commitee of the 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM-2018, Heidelberg U.).
He has recently joined the CERN activities on neutrino detectors and neutrino physics (CERN EP Neutrino Group and CERN Neutrino Platform).
Curriculum Vitae (PDF) List of publications (inSPIRE)
The projects where I contributed most: