Jean-Pierre Revol
Physicist
1972: Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France.
1973: Licence de mathématiques from University of Paris VI, France.
1981: Ph.D. in physics, from MIT, Cambridge USA (MARKJ experiment: participation in the discovery of the gluon, with Professor S.C.C. Ting).
1982-84: CERN fellow (UA1 experiment: participation in the discovery of the W and Z weak bosons, for which Professor Carlo Rubbia received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1984).
1984: Assistant Professor at MIT Physics Department. Head of a research group collaborating in UA1.
1989: Associate Professor at MIT Physics Department, continuing research activities on UA1.
1991-93: CERN staff and Scientific Adviser to the Director General of CERN (Professor Carlo Rubbia).
1991-99: ICARUS experiment;
1992-95: Participation in the conceptual design of the “Energy Amplifier” proposed by Professor Carlo Rubbia.
1994-95: First Energy Amplifier Test (FEAT experiment at the CERN PS).
1996-2000: Test of Transmutation by Adiabatic Resonance Crossing (TARC experiment at the CERN PS).
1997-99: Member of the joint CERN-INFN Technical Committee responsible for preparing a proposal for the CERN neutrino beam to Gran Sasso (CNGS, approved in December 1999)
1999-present: Member of the Technical Working Group designing and monitoring construction of CNGS.
2000-present: Head of the CERN Team in the ALICE experiment, specialized in the study of heavy ion collisions at LHC; Coordinator of proton-proton physics in ALICE.