Biography

 Name: Andrea Ventura
 Date of birth: December 16, 1975
 Place of birth: Tricase (LE), Italy
 Nationality: Italian
 Mailing address: Dept. of Physics – University of Salento – Via per Arnesano – I-73100 Lecce, Italy
 Phone: +39 (0)832 29 74 58
 Fax: +39 (0)832 32 51 28
 E-mail: Andrea.Ventura@le.infn.it
 Web site: http://www.le.infn.it/~ventura

Languages and computer skills
 Italian (native), English (very good), French (fair)
 Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, LINUX and VMS on platforms: OSF, HP, SUN, ALPHA
 Programming languages: C, C++, Fortran 77, Quick Basic, Html, Asp, Php, Perl, Python

Positions, contracts, grants
 Three months contract (from March to June 1999) at the University of Lecce, Italy, on: “Study of feasibility of an event filter for K meson Kl4 semileptonic decays produced through Monte Carlo simulation techniques at the KLOE detector” (“Studio di fattibilità di un filtro di eventi relativo a decadimenti semileptonici Kl4 del mesone K prodotti mediante tecniche di simulazione Monte Carlo al detector di KLOE”)
 Military duties – Civil service (from December 1999 to October 2000)
 Annual contract (from November 1999 to June 2000) for tutorship activities at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Lecce, Italy, with grant from “Progetto Orientamento” – SOFT (“Servizio Formazione Orientamento e Tutorato”)
 Annual scolarship for graduates with grant from ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Enviroment), on: “Computer technologies and methodologies for transferring and diffusing technological innovation” (“Tecnologie e metodologie informatiche al servizio del trasferimento e della diffusione dell’innovazione tecnologica”) to be held at ENEA – Section of Bologna, Italy, starting from 2000 (declined)
 Admission to the Ph.D. school in “Innovative Materials and Technologies” – XV Cycle – with grant from MURST (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research) to be held at ISUFI (Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies) in Lecce, Italy (declined)
 Ph. D. in Physics – XV Cycle – at the University of Lecce, Italy, with grant and membership of INFN (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics) (from July 2000 to June 2003)
 Permanent position as High School teacher (qualification score 86.5/100 in class “47/A” – Mathematical Sciences) for the Puglia region, Italy (from September 2001)
 Teaching experience in High Schools – Mathematics (from July 2003 to December 2003)
 Postdoctoral Research Association (Assegno di Ricerca) at INFN – Section of Lecce, Italy. Research project: “The ATLAS muon spectrometer. Trigger chambers and track reconstruction systems” (“Lo spettrometro a muoni di ATLAS. Camere di trigger e sistemi di ricostruzione tracce”) (from December 2003 to November 2007)
 Permanent position at the University of Salento as Physics Researcher in the scientific sector FIS/04 denominated “Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics” (since November 2007)
 National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor in the sector 02/A1 denominated “Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions” (since January 2014)

Scientific and institutional appointments and responsibilities
 Member of Career Guidance Committee for Physics studies - University of Salento, since January 2008, and Responsible of the same committee since May 2013
 Responsible of Muon Trigger Validation for the ATLAS experiment since February 2008
 Member of Teachers’ Committee for Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Salento from June 2009 to July 2013
 Trigger Validation Coordinator for the ATLAS experiment from July to September in years 2010-2013
 Member of Thesis Committee for Physics studies - University of Salento, since June 2012
 Responsible of project “Piano Lauree Scientifiche” for Physics, connecting University of Salento with nearby High Schools, since July 2012
 Researchers’ representative in the Department of Mathematics and Physics - University of Salento, since January 2014
 Researchers’ representative in the Technical-Scientific area of University of Salento (inclusive of the following Departments: Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies; Innovation Engineering; Mathematics and Physics), since March 2014
 Member of the working group supporting the Rector of University of Salento for Researchers' activities, since June 2014
 Rector’s delegate of the Information-Statistical System - University of Salento, since December 2014
 Coordinator of the subnuclear research group (“Gruppo 1”) in Lecce division of INFN, since July 2015

Scientific awards and honors
 Winner of the Excellence Award among scientific researchers at the University of Salento, funded by BPP (Banca Popolare Pugliese) – year 2012
 Honorable mention at the Research and Innovation Award 2014, Monteroni (Lecce)