A. Variola

Alessandro Variola graduated in physics from the University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, in 1993. He received the Ph.D. degree in experimental physics from Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 1998. He is currently a Research Director with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Frascati, Italy. He was responsible for the Accelerators Department, Laboratoire de l’accélérateur linéaire, Orsay. He managed several projects to design and build large-scale particle accelerators. He has authored or coauthored over 170 publications in the field of physics and application of particle accelerators. His research interests include muon generation and cooling, particle accelerator-based radiation sources, high-power RF couplers, positron sources for novel particle accelerators, optical diagnostics for particle beams, and linear particle accelerators. Dr. Variola received the CNRS Crystal Medal in 2011.