Fulvia Pilat Explained

Fulvia Pilat is an Italian-American physicist^[1] who is currently the Research Accelerator Division Director at the Spallation Neutron Source^[2] and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).^[3]

Education and career

She earned her Ph.D from University of Trieste in 1986 before joining the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and later, in 1994, the Brookhaven National Laboratory^[2] followed by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in 2010 as Deputy Associate Director.^[4] In Nov. 2017, she accepted a new position at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the director of the Research Accelerator Division in the Neutron Sciences Directorate.^[5]

Research

Her interests are the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, for which she was elected to the APS for, and electron-ion colliders.

Publications

• Design study for a staged very large hadron collider. Brookhaven National Laboratory. 2001.
• First polarized proton collisions at a beam energy of 250 GeV in RHIC. Proceedings of PAC09, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2004.
• RHIC Magnet Transfer Functions. 1996.
• SXF (Standard eXchange Format): definition, syntax. Technical Report RHIC/AP/155, BNL. 1998.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lecture . bnl.gov . December 27, 2017.
2. Web site: Bios . energy.gov . December 27, 2017.
3. Web site: Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist Honored with APS Fellowship . November 10, 2017 . newswise.com . December 27, 2017.
4. Web site: Jefferson Lab names Pilat Deputy Associate Director for the Accelerator Division . December 18, 2009 . jlab.org . December 27, 2017.
5. Web site: Jefferson Lab staff scientist honored with APS Fellowship. November 10, 2017 . eurekalert.org . July 16, 2018.