The University of Insubria

		Andrea Giuliani

	Contact data	Associate Professor Department of Physics and Mathematics Via Valleggio 11 - I-22100 Como Tel: +39 031 238 6217 Fax: +39 031 238 6209 E-mail: andrea.giuliani@uninsubria.it
	Biography	Andrea Giuliani was born in Milano (Italy) in 1961. He graduated from the University of Milan in 1985, with a pioneer work on bolometers performed at CERN. After earning his Ph.D. in Milano with a research activity on low temperature detectors for weak interactions, conducted partially at CERN and in Milano, he worked in Milano initially (since 1990) as a University Researcher and then (since 1997) as a Senior Researcher of INFN (Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics). In 1999, he was appointed Associate Professor at Como (University of Insubria). Expert in bolometric detection of particles and in crucial aspects of neutrino physics, he gave several invited talks about low temperature detectors of radiation and neutrino physics at international conferences.
	Qualifications and awards	Coordinator of a Joint Research Activity in the VI Framework Program of the European Commission (European coordination of Double Beta Decay R&D activities). Principal Investigator of an experiment for the direct measurement of the neutrino mass with micro-bolometers (MIBETA). Principal Investigator of an INFN technological project (development of low temperature particle detectors based on capacitive sensors). Coordinator of two Italian projects of relevant national interest (PRIN2001 and PRIN2004) on gravitational and weak interactions. Member of the Program Committee of the periodic international conference "Hard X-Ray And Gamma-Ray Detector Physics".
	Research interests	Andrea Giuliani has given determinant contributions to the development of a new class of particle detectors (bolometers). He is and was involved in experiments in non accelerator particle physics at Gran Sasso Underground Laboratories, in Milano and in the Como cryogenics laboratory. The results of his research are both technological and scientific. In the technological field, he contributed to bring bolometric devices to a very high precision, realizing X- and Alpha-detectors with energy resolutions much higher than those achievable by conventional instruments. He contributed also to the development of the most massive bolometric Gamma detectors ever realized. In the scientific field, he collaborates to one of the most sensitive experiments on Double Beta Decay (giving a limit on Majorana neutrino mass of the order of 0.5 eV), based on bolometric detectors. He is also leading a research on the direct measurement of the neutrino mass with micro-bolometers (MIBETA). He is now involved in the project CUORE, a new generation detector for rare events, such as Double Beta Decay and interaction of Dark Matter candidates. At the University of Insubria, he is responsible for a cryogenic laboratory for the development of bolometers, to be used not only in neutrino physics but also for astrophysical and technological applications.
	Teaching experience and appointments	He has been teaching university courses on: - nuclear and elementary particle physics (University of Insubria) - laboratory of general physics (Milano and University of Insubria) - laboratory of nuclear physics (University of Insubria) He has given lectures at national and international doctorate schools on bolometric detection of particles (Gran Sasso, 1992, Roma Tor Vergata, 1998-2003), on Dark Matter (Como, 2000), on neutrino physics (Madonna di Campiglio, 2003)
	Representative publications	-C. Arnaboldi, ..., A. Giuliani,... et al., New Limit on the Neutrinoless beta beta Decay of Te-130, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 142501 (2005) L. Foggetta, A. Giuliani, C. Nones, M. Pedretti, S. Sangiorgio Surface-Sensitive Macrobolometers For The Identification Of External Charged Particles, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 134106 (2005) -C. Arnaboldi, ..., A. Giuliani,... et al., First Results on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Te-130 with the Calorimetric Cuoricino Experiment, Physics Letters B 584 (2004) 260 -A. Borio di Tigliole, E. Calligarich, A. Cesana, R. Dolfini, L. Garlati, A. Giuliani, M. Pedretti, A. Rappoldi, G. L. Raselli, M. Terrani, Variability of Fast Neutron Yield in Underground Environment, Europhys. Lett., 67 (6), pp. 1045–1049 (2004) -C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, C. Lobianco, A. Giuliani, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Sisti, L. Martensson, Bolometric Bounds on the Antineutrino Mass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 161802 (2003) -A. Alessandrello, C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Sisti, M. Vanzini, L. Zanotti, A. Giuliani, M. Pedretti, C. Bucci, C. Pobes, New Limits on Naturally Occurring Electron Capture of Te-123, Physical Review C 67 (2003) 014323 -A. Giuliani, Dark Matter Search with Innovative Techniques, chapter 8 from the volume "Modern Cosmology", ed. Institute of Physics Publishing, 2002, Bristol and Philadelphia, pag. 264-281 -M. Barucci, C. Brofferio, A. Giuliani, E. Gottardi, I. Peroni, G. Ventura, Measurement of Low Temperature Specific Heat of Crystalline TeO2 for the Optimization of Bolometric Detectors, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 123, 303 (2001) -A. Alessandrello, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, E. Coccia, O. Cremonesi, V. Fafone, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, A. Nucciotti, S. Parmeggiano, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, A. Rotilio, M. Vanzini e L. Zanotti, A Massive Thermal Detector for Alpha and Gamma Spectroscopy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 440, 397 (2000) -A. Alessandrello, J. W. Beeman, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, E. E. Haller, A. Monfardini, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, E. Previtali and L. Zanotti, High Energy Resolution Bolometers for Nuclear Physics and X-Ray Spectroscopy, Physical Review Letters, 82, 513 (1999) -A. Giuliani and S. Sanguinetti, Phonon-Mediated Particle Detectors: Physics and Materials, Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, R11, 1 (1993) -A. Alessandrello, D. V. Camin, E. Fiorini and A. Giuliani, Construction of a Massive Thermal Detector for Experiments on Rare Decays , Physics Letters, B202, 611 (1988)

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