Biography

Tiziano Camporesi is a high-energy physics researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he has worked since 1986. He was Deputy Spokesperson of the CMS collaboration in 2012–2013 and Spokesperson of the CMS experiment in 2014–2016; earlier he led the DELPHI experiment at the Large Electron-Positron collider. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics at Boston University. He took part in the research that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. He is an honorary doctor of GTU and a member of its Supervisory Board.

Education

• University of Bologna – doctorate in physics

Scientific degree and rank

• Professor
• Honorary Doctor of Georgian Technical University

Work experience

• Since 1986 – CERN, research physicist (permanent staff member since 1989)
• 2000–2001 – CERN, head of the DELPHI experiment
• Since 2001 – CMS experiment (CERN)
• 2012–2013 – Deputy Spokesperson of the CMS collaboration
• 2014–2016 – Spokesperson of the CMS experiment
• Boston University, Department of Physics – adjunct professor