(September 20, 2016), “A recognition to the excellence of Italian physics.” Fernando Ferroni, president of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics enthuses the nomination received by Professor Paolo Giubellino, an Institute phycist. Giubellino was in fact appointed Scientific Director (Scientific Managing Director) of the prestigious GSI Helmholtz Centre – the most important physics laboratory in Germany, which is based in Darmstadt – for Heavy Ion Research. In this important position also adds the simultaneous appointment as spokesperson for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and the Ion Research in Europe). Giubellino will take office on January 1, 2017. “To the directors of CERN, ESRF (FR), XFEL (D), ALBA (ES) is now added Paolo Giubellino, INFN research director, at FAIR, the most important of German nuclear physics laboratory . The best wishes for a good job to an esteemed colleague and so far spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at LHC”, added Ferroni. Giubellino is an Italian excellence: he is appointed a number of coordinating and evaluating research offices in different countries. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of IN2P3 in France, the CNRS organ that brings together the research in nuclear and subnuclear physics. He coordinated numerous initiatives of international cooperation, especially with Latin American countries. He has received numerous scientific awards in Mexico, Cuba, Ukraine and Slovakia. (Red)
