Piero Giorgio Verdini
I became operational on March 15th in the HAL plant of Rome, Italy... Seriously, I am a bit of an old timer, having participated in three experiments at CERN (and two at SLAC). Right now I am running the Detector Control System and the Detector Safety System for the CMS Tracker, the largest semiconductor detector existing (200 m2 of instrumented Silicon), which likes to live at -25 C, so it does need a lot of care to prevent it from environmental damage. I was born in Rome but consider myself a Friulano since both my parents come from the Udine area. After several relocations due to my father's job, I ended up getting my degree in High Energy Physics at the University of Perugia, working on the UA4 experiment at the SPP(bar)S Collider. I came to CERN officially for the first time in June 1982 as a Summer Student. After UA4, I left for SLAC where I took part in the MAC experiment at PEP and subsequently in SLD at the SLC, but after a while the Pisa group of which I had become a member was called to participate in the construction of the ALEPH Silicon Vertex Detector, and so I was back to CERN again, never to leave for another laboratory again.
CMS virtual technical experts:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
