Riccardo Maria Bianchi

Riccardo Maria BIANCHI is a physicist, PhD; he specializes in experimental particle physics.

Since 2008 he is based full-time at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), where he works on the ATLAS Experiment handling, analyzing, and visualizing data from the collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

He is currently a Research Associate, Faculty member of the Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Bianchi is currently “Physics Validation” and “Data Visualization” coordinator of the ATLAS experiment, and member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN since 2005.

In the last 18 years, his research focused on Searches for supersymmetric particles and extra dimensions, model-independent searches for New Physics, muon detectors, data acquisition, development of scientific software & parallel computing, interactive data visualization, detector description & simulation, and virtual reality for science and education.

He is a contributor of the university textbook "Applied Computational Physics", published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Dr. Bianchi is member of the European Physics Society (EPS) and the Societa Italiana di Fisica (SIF), and ex-member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG). He is also the founder of the "Quantum Computing" and "Visualization" working groups of the High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF).

He is also active in Outreach and science communication projects, and as a scientific advisor for the organization of public exhibitions around the world: the latest two are "Cultural Collisions" at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto (Canada, 2018) and "Sperimentando 2018" in Pavia (Italy, 2018).