BIO
Lucio Rossi earned a PhD in Physics in 1980, and in 1992 became Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Milan. In 1990-1998 he was responsible for the first LHC dipole magnet prototypes for CERN and later for the first large superconducting toroidal coils for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. In 2001 he joined CERN to lead the construction of Magnets & Superconductors for the LHC Project. Since 2010, he has been High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Project Leader. This is an international project working on the development of new cutting-edge technologies, like 11-12 tesla novel superconducting magnets, in a bid to secure a five-fold increase in the luminosity of the LHC by 2025.
Rossi chaired the MT-19 conference in Genoa (Italy) in 2015 and the 13th EUCAS in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2017, and received the IEEE Council of Superconductivity Award in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow and a board member of ESAS (European Society for Applied Superconductivity) for 2011-2019. A member of the “Euresis” association for the promotion of scientific culture established in Milan, he is active in public outreach on science and on the relations between science and technology, certainty and truth.