• Surname:                                   Amendolia
• First name:                                Salvator Roberto
  
• Born:                                          Genoa (Italy) 16/10/1949
• Nationality:                              Italian

Education:

• 1971                Laurea in Physics (maxima cum laude) at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
• 1974                Specialization in Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa

Career:

• 2005 –  date    Scientific Attaché, Embassy of Italy, London, UK
• 2001 –  2005   Visiting Scientist at CERN, Geneva
• 1994 –  date   Full Professor of Physics – Faculty of Sciences – Univ. of Sassari
• 1988 – 1993    Associate Professor of Physics – Faculty of Agronomy – Univ. of Sassari
• 1983 – 1987    Researcher in Physics – Dept. of Physics – Univ. of Pisa
• 1982                Scientific Associate at CERN, Geneva
• 1975 – 1981    Research contract – Dept. of Physics – Univ. of Pisa

Fields of Expertise:
About 200 research papers in: Experimental High Energy Physics; Applications of Articial Intelligence to Physics, Medicine and Chemistry; Applications of hardware and software technologies from Physics to Medicine; 

Activities:

• 2001 – 2005  Leader, Promotion Section, Technology Transfer Group of CERN, Geneva, with focus on transfer of High Energy Physics (HEP) technologies to the Bio-medical and Energy field; Project Manager of EU FP5 project on application of GRID technology to Medicine

• 1971 – 2003  Fundamental research in High Energy Physics at CERN (Geneva), Fermilab (Chicago), SSC (Dallas); Spokesperson for experiments at CERN SPS (1987-1989); leader of Italian collaboration at SSC (1990-1993);  referee for Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) on LHC experiments at CERN (1997-2003);

• 1992 – 2001  Applied research in Medical Physics; work on application of HEP technologies to the Bio-medical field; Leader of national project on digital mammography with large industries in Italy (1996-2000)

• 1996 – 2000  Head of national project on “Financial Montecarli” (econo-physics); Head of projects on dissemination of computer science skills to citizen (European Social Fund);