GIANLUIGI CASSE

Anno acc. 2025/2026
Laboratorio di fisica sperimentale - Ingegneria Energetica (A.A. 2025-2026)
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Prof. Gianluigi Casse Curriculum Vitae

Personal details
Name: Gianluigi Casse
Professional Address 1: Dip. SBAI, Università Sapienza, Roma 1, Via Antonio Scarpa, 14, 00161 Roma, Italy.
Tel. and email: +39 06 49766532; +39 3475054569 Gianluigi.casse@uniroma1.it.
Professional Address 2: O. Lodge Laboratory, Oxford Street, L69 7ZE, Liverpool – UK
Tel. and email: +44 7900848134; gcasse@liverpool.ac.uk
Date and place of birth: 12th September 1961 in Susa (Torino), Italy
ORCID: 0000-0002-8516-237X
Education
1998 PhD: Université J. Fourier – Grenoble (FR)
1993 Laurea in physics (110/110 summa cum laude) Faculty of Scienze
Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, University of Torino (IT)
Current positions
- 2023 - : Professore ordinario, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Departimento SBAI
- 2015 - : Professor (Chair) of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
Previous positions
- 2016 - 2021: Director of the FBK – S&D Centre for Materials and Microsystems, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive, 18, 38123 Trento, Italy (Dual appointment with professorship in Liverpool)
- 2006 - 2015: Senior Principal Research Fellow (Research Professor), University of Liverpool, Department of Physics
- 2001 - 2006: Principal Experimental Officer, University of Liverpool, Department of Physics
- 1998 - 2001: Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, Department of Physics
- 1993 - 1998: Scientific Associate, CERN, EP-MIC-SD
Responsibilities
- 2017 - : member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) for the Austrian Academy of Science
- 2017: Founding member and FBK scientific representative of the Quantum at Trento (Q@TN) joint laboratory among FBK, the University of Trento, INFN and CNR (National Research Council) for research and development of Quantum Technologies.
- 2016 - 2022: member of the Scientific Board of the L-NESS inter-University Centre between Milano Bicocca and Polytechnic University of Milano
- 2015 – 2020: WP leader in the Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA 2020)
- 2013 -2018: Head of research for the CERN/LHCb-VELO Upgrade Detectors
- 2012: Member of the detector panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA)
- 2010: Visiting professor at CNM-Barcelona, Universitad Autonoma de Catalunya
- 2010 - 2024: Co-spokesperson of the CERN/RD50 experiment (64 International Institutes, > 500 scientists).
- 2009 - 2014: Member of the Design Specification and Procurement group for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade detectors
- 2008 - 2011: ATLAS Upgrade UK WP leader for the Silicon Tracker System.
Institutional roles
- 2023 - : Coordinator of the Quantum Science and Technology Development group at the department of Physics, University of Liverpool.
- 2021 - 2024: Director of the Postgraduate Research program (PhD school) for the Particle Physics group of the University of Liverpool.
- 2011 - 2016: Head of R&D for the Particle Physics group of the University of Liverpool.
Commissions of trust
- 2012: Reviewer for the Croatian Science Foundation.
- 2013: Reviewer, Grant programme, Czech Science Foundation.
- 2013: Reviewer for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Outer Tracker experiment, CERN.
- 2014: Evaluation of research Infrastructure, for the Czech Ministry of education.
- 2015: Reviewer of the ATLAS Forward Physics (AFP) experiment at CERN.
- 2017 : Reviewer of the CMS Upgrade Technical Design Report (TDR).
- 2012 - : Reviewer for UK-STFC scientific grants.
- 2019 - : Member of the CERN Scientific Panel of the Phase II Upgrade of the CMS experiment.
- 2022 - : Reviewer for the Swiss National Science foundation.
- 2022 - : Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR).
Major collaborations
- CERN - ATLAS and ATLAS Upgrade collaboration for the development of the future ATLAS Tracker at the HL-LHC.
- CERN – The LHCb collaboration.
- CERN – The RD50 collaboration.
- µ3e collaboration (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Scientific collaborations with: UK Universities and institutes (Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Glasgow, Lancaster, Lincoln, Manchester, Oxford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Sheffield, Surrey, Warwick);
Italian Universities and Institutes: INFN, CNR, ASI, INRIM, many major Universities;
Collaboration with International partners: CERN, Fermilab, Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (Spain), and several International Universities (Europe, Japan, China, US, Canada).
Collaborations with Industries: Micron Semiconductors, IBA, INFINEON, e2v, Proton Partners Internationals, Broadcom, Sick, Horiba, LFoundry, ThalesAlenia Space, SONY, …
Topics: development of instrumentation for detection of radiation. Design and commissioning of High Energy Physics experiments. Development of medical instrumentation.
Publications
Over the last ten years I have authored or co-authored more than 900 publications in refereed scientific journals. The total number of citations of these papers is over 50000 with an overall h-index of 109 (all data reported are based on the Scopus data base).
Organisation of international conferences (steering and/or organising committee) :
- International workshop series: TREDI - “Trento” Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors (3D and P-type Technologies), with annual frequency, from 2005 (18th edition in Trento, February 2023).
- IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2012, October 29 - November 3, 2012, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, Topic Convener and Session Organiser (Radiation Damage Effects).
- IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2015, October 31 - November 7, Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, California, Topic Convener and Session Organiser (Radiation Effects).
- The 2017 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, Detector Session organiser, (LCWS2017, Strasbourg Oct. 2017)
- Semiconductor Detector Session organiser for the 14th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors (Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics), 2018.
- Organising committee and proceedings editor, The 7th workshop on Position Sensitive detectors (PSD7, Liverpool Sep. 2005).
Some invited presentations to international established conferences and schools:
- Invited talk at the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI
- 2023), Monopoli, Bari, Italy, June 8-9, 2023
- Invited talk at the Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators, 24th to 28th of April 2023
- Invited talk at the 10th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging, 12-16 December 2022, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
- Keynote Speech at the XXXVI Edition of the Annual Meeting of Italian Researchers on Electrical Engineering, ET2022, 23 - 24 June 2022, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy.
- Invited professor at the Scuola Nazionale di Elettrotecnica "Ferdinando Gasparini", Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona (Italy).
- Invited professor at XXXII INTERNATIONAL INFN School “SEMINAR of NUCLEAR and SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS Francesco Romano" June 7-11, 2021, Otranto (Italy).
- Invited professor at the 5th summer school on Intelligent Signal Processing for Frontier Research and Industry, 12 – 26 May 2019, Wuhan, China.
- Invited speech at Nanoinnovation 2017, Rome 26 – 29 September 2017.
- Invited professor at the VII INFN school for Detectors and Electronics for High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Space Applications, 2 – 7 April 2017, Legnaro, Padova.
- Invited speech at the photonic conference of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IFN), January 2016.
- Keynote speech at the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN-UK) Workshop: Sensing in Extreme Environments, 7th May 2015 London, United Kingdom.
- Keynote speech: 13th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation (VCI), 11th- 15th February 2013, Vienna (A).
- Invited Lecture at the CERN Detector Seminar Series, Geneva 2012.
- Invited professor in the EDIT school: Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies CERN, Geneva, Switzerland- 31 January- 10 February 2011.
- 2011 Invited professor at the INFN school for Detectors and Electronics for High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Space Applications, Legnaro, Padova.
Examples of leadership in industrial innovation or design:
- Collaboration with Micron Semiconductor Ltd. on sensor development work funded under “Blue skies” Innovative Technologies grant (2006-2008).
- Collaboration with Q-Technologies ltd on application of Silicon sensors in mass spectroscopy under STFC Global Challenges grant. Further grant applications for STFC-CASE and STFC Industry Strategy Fund studentships and for an STFC-CLASP grant)
- Collaboration with PPI Ltd on development of HV-CMOS solutions for Proton therapy applications. Grant applications for STFC Industry Strategy Fund studentship and STFC Innovation Fellowship)
- Collaboration with CMM-IMB for development of radiation hard, p-type microstrip sensors for tracking in harsch radiation environments (2010 - 2014).
- Collaboration with LFoundry Srl and FBK-CMM Trento on HV-CMOS R&D. Two current PhD students are co-funded between Liverpool and FBK, Further application for an STFC Industry Strategy Fund studentship)
- Collaborations with Broadcom for development of SiPM solutions for automotive Lidar and PET imaging (continuous contracts over 6 years).
Recent patents:
- A Fully-Digital Particle Detector, G. Casse, N. Massari, Italian Patent PCT/IB2022/057504, published international patent WO 2023/021379 A1 del 23/02/2023.
- G. Casse, G. Zhang, E. Vilella, M. Franks, Apparatus and methods, Very high-voltage rad-hard HV-CMOS sensors, International Patent No.: PCT/GB2023/050362
- Tissue equivalent phantom with Si detectors, G. Casse, J. Taylor, European Patent N. EP3576627; US 11,480,692 B2 25/10/2022; Japan P7126710, 19/08/2022.
- Disegno di elettrodi a gabbia per sensori AC-LGAD – A. Gola, G. Borghi, M. Boscardin, G. Casse, G. Paternoster, Italian patent n.: 102021000009437 – 14.04.21
- Diode for fast SiPM cell recharge - F. Acerbi, G. Borghi, G. Casse, A. Gola, A. Mazzi, G. Paternoster, Italian patent n.: 102021000009443 – 14.04.21
- New isolation methods of isolating adiacent cells in segmented radiation detectors - F. Acerbi, G. Borghi, G. Casse, A. Gola, A. Mazzi, G. Paternoster, Italian patent n.: 102021000009446 - 14.04.21
- SiPM partial Trench with sidewall doping - F. Acerbi, G. Borghi, G. Casse, A. Ficorella , A. Gola, A. Mazzi, S. Merzi, G. Paternoster, Italian patent n.: 102021000009434 – 13.04.21
- Diode for SiPM quenchin’ - G. Casse, A. Gola, Italian patent n.: 102019000005837
- SiPM MOS in Trench - F. Acerbi, G. Borghi, G. Casse, A. Gola, G. Paternoster, Italian patent n.: 102019000005922