Majorana, Ettore
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Majorana, Ettore
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2018 Virgo Upgrades towards 3rd Observational Run (O3)
2017 AdV+ vision document board
2015-02/2019 Coordinator of SUSP commissioning of Advanced Virgo detector.
2017 Coordinator of WP2 (GW Physics), EC project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 Grant N° 734303, exchange project with US and Japan.
2014-2017 Development and implementation of Advanced Virgo payloads
06/2014 Local Coordinator of Virgo at the Rome Branch of INFN
01/2014 Qualification by MIUR (Univ. and Research Ministry) full professor calls A2/01 (experimental fundamental physics) 23/01/2014-23/01/2020 A2/01
2014-2011 Teaching appointment FIS/07 at Teaching Hospital Umberto I of Sapienza University of Rome.
03/2011-16 Local scientific coordinator (Sapienza Univ. Rome) of WP1 (Cryogenic test mass suspension from ground to the payload), European proj. ELiTES (FP7 M. Curie No.: 295153),exchange project with Japan.
03/2008 Co-chair Monolithic Suspension Virgo+.
11/2006 Coordinator of MSC (Mirror Suspension Control) during Virgo commissioning.
2005 National coordinator of VFC (Vibration-Free Cryostat), (INFN CSN5, R&D) (cryogenics).
2005 Lead Researcher INFN.
1999-2002 Virgo Interferometer, commissioning group (alignment control).
2001 Permanent position as technology researcher by INFN (Pisa, site of Virgo Project).
01/1997 Temporary position as researcher by INFN (Roma), affiliated to the Virgo Project, Gravitational Waves).
10/1996 Temporary position as foreign researcher granted by Univ. of Tokyo (ICRR), works partially at KEK (Tsukuba), mechanical thermal noise.
07/1995 Post-doc (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Seismic suspensions of TAMA interferometer, works at National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka (Tokyo).
03/1995 Scholarship at the Dep. of Physics of the Univ. of Rome Sapienza, affiliated to INFN (Virgo group)
02/1994 Temporary contract at the Dep. of Physics of Siena University
05/1993 Scholarship at the ISS (National Health Institute), Physics laboratory
10/1993 PhD dissertation (Back-Action-Evading and traditional schemes of electromechanical transducers for resonant gravitational-wave antennas)
1988 Master in Physics (Roma Sapienza), (field: experimental astrophysics, topic: stellar evolution).
Awards: as member of the LIGO-Virgo international collaboration: 1) Breakthrough Prize for GW discovery and coalescing BHs observation; 2) The Gruber Foundation, 2016 Cosmology Prize; 3) Albert Einstein Medal 2017
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