Riccardo Longo

Riccardo Longo
Riccardo Longo he/him/his

Primary Research Area

  • Nuclear Physics
Research Scientist
481 Loomis Laboratory

Academic Positions

  • Research Scientist, Unviersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 - present 
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018 - 2022

Other Professional Employment

  • ATLAS-CMS Joint ZDC Upgrade Project Technical Coordinator, 2019 - present
  • ATLAS ZDC Techical Coordinator, 2021 - present 
  • ATLAS Heavy Ion Jet Convener, 2023 - present 
  • ATLAS RPD Project Leader, 2022 - present

Research Interests

  • Zero Degree Calorimetry
  • Heavy Ion Physics
  • Forward Physics
  • Electron-Ion Collider
  • Spin Structure of the Nucleon
  • Supercomputing

Selected Articles in Journals

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Pending Articles

Invited Lectures

Conferences Organized or Chaired

  • International Conference of Physics Students 2017, Turin (Italy), 7 - 14 August 2017
  • XIV International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy, Cortona (Italy), 2 - 5 April 2017
  • Deep Inelastic Scattering 2019, Turin (Italy), 8 - 12 April 2019

Professional Societies

  • CERN User, 2013 - Present
  • COMPASS Collaboration Member, 2014 - Present
  • ATLAS Collaboration Member, 2020 - Present
  • Joint Zero Degree Calorimeter Project Technical Coordinator, 2019 - Present
  • Fermilab User, 2019 - Present
  • American Physical Society Member, 2020 - Present
  • Italian Physical Society Member, 2016 - Present

Research Honors

  • Carlo Castagnoli Award, for " Scientific industriousness" assigned by the Italian Physics Society (11 September 2017)

Recent Courses Taught

  • PHYS 371 - Design Like a Physicist