Mitko Gaidarov joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
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- Published on 12 January 2026
The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Mitko Gaidarov, as the new representative of the Bulgarian Physical Society.
Professor Mitko Gaidarov is a professor of physics and the head of the Nuclear Theory Laboratory in the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
In the past he was the Scientific Secretary and Vice-Director of this Institute..
He is a member of the C12 Commission on Nuclear Physics of the IUPAP, member of the Governing Board of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria and Chair of Section “Physics” of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria.
Mitko Gaidarov is an Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Journal of Physics.
His interests are theoretical nuclear physics, nucleon correlations in nuclei, nuclear structure and nuclear reactions.
Farewell Renato Angelo Ricci
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- Published on 17 December 2025
Former President of the European Physical Society and former President of the Italian Physical Society (SIF, 1981 - 1998), Prof. Renato Angelo Ricci had also led the preparations for merging parts of Il Nuovo Cimento into the newly launched EPJ during his final years as SIF president [II Nuovo Cimento: Historical Recollection]. In 1999 he then became (together with the late Prof. Andrea Taroni) a member of the newly formed EPJ Steering Committee, a role which he fulfilled with much dedication until his retirement from committee work in October of 2005, while remaining always interested in the further development of the EPJ journals.
Prof. Renato Ricci passed away on December 5, 2025. News from Società Italiana di Fisica: Addio a Renato Angelo Ricci
Alessandra Fantoni joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
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- Published on 07 April 2025
The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Alessandra Fantoni, as the new representative of the European Physical Society.
Professor Alessandra Fantoni is a Senior Researcher at the INFN Frascati National Laboratories (LNF).
She has been involved in the HERMES experiment at DESY since its inception in 1992, initially as a PhD student working on the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter.
Her role evolved over time, and she eventually became the Run Coordinator in 2007, as well as the Technical Coordinator and Deputy Spokesperson.
After the closure of HERA, she joined the ALICE Collaboration to study nuclear collisions at the ultra-relativistic energies provided by the LHC.
Within ALICE, she served as the European and EuroAsian Coordinator for EMCAL (2008-2010) and for DCAL (2010-2012), as well as the Deputy Project Leader for the electromagnetic calorimeters (2012-2022).
She has also been involved in the upgrade of the Inner Tracking System (ITS2) since 2015, overseeing the construction of staves for the Outer Barrel at LNF.
The new ITS2 was successfully installed in 2021 during the LHC Long Shutdown 2.
She was an elected member of the ALICE Management Board (2020-2022) and will serve as the next ALICE Collaboration Chair from July 2025 to June 2028.
Currently, she is the Chair of the European Physical Society (EPS) Nuclear Physics Division, having previously served as the Scientific Secretary (2021-2022) and Deputy Chair (2023). She is an elected member of the EPS Executive Committee since May 2023.
