Education and employment

• Obtained PhD from University of Ljubljana in 2001 (“Signal formation in irradiated silicon detectors”)
• Research fellow at DESY 2001-2003
• 2004 – employed as senior researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljan
• 2020 – promoted to Senior Research Councillor (equivalent in research to full professor at University)

Research field:

• ATLAS experiment (1995-)
  • SCT – sensor development and construction
  • Radiation Monitor of ATLAS experiment – leading role in design and construction
  • HGTD  - sensor  development, performance and construction
• ZEUS experiment at HERA II (2001-2007)
  • MVD performance & reconstruction
  • Radiation Monitor (2001-2007)
• R&D collaborations: RD39, RD42, RD48 and RD50 (1999-2023)
• Dosimetry and medical applications  (MOS-FET dosimeters, p-CT, Compton camera, brachytherapy)

Appointments and coordination experience

• RD50 – convener of Pad Detector Characterization (PDC 2005-2010)
• RD50 – convener of Full Detector System (2010-2023)
• RD50 – collaboration Board Chair (2012-2023)
• ATLAS HGTD  – sensor coordinator (2020->)
• Project coordination (PI in several national and JSI PI in several EC projects)

Transfer of knowledge – one of the founders of Particulars d.o.o. , JSI spin-out company (2013)

Education and employment

• BSc.in Physics from University of Napoli (IT) 1999
• PhD in from the University of Glasgow (UK) 2003
• 2004- employed at the IFAE institute in Barcelona Spain
• 2005 employed as senior researcher at the IMB_CNM-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain.
• ORCID: 0000-0002-1606-3546

Research field:

• Atlas experiment- Design and fabrication of double-sided 3D detectors for the IBL
• Inventor of the LGAD (Low Gain Avalanche Detectors) technology for timing detectors.
• RD50- Radiation hard detectors
• Sensors for plasma diagnostic in fusion reactors (SiC, 3Dthin, Graphene)
• Dosimetry and medical applications (SiC, micro dosimeters)
• Sensors for nuclear experiments.
• Beam and position monitors for synchrotron applications.

Appointments and coordination experience

• Coordinator of the European project For2ensic GA No. 101075672.
• Convenor of the Detector Roadmap panel in solid state detectors (TF3)
• DRD3 Coordinator of the proposal team to form the new collaboration.
• RD50 convener of the research line: “New Detector Structures”
• Head of the Radiation detector group at IMB-CNM-CSIC
   

Transfer of knowledge – one of the founders of the company Alibava Systems in 2011