Dr. Gian Innocenti

Biography

Gian Michele Innocenti is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has been a faculty member since January 2024. He received his Ph.D. in particle nuclear physics from the University of Turin in Italy in early 2014. Following his doctoral work, he joined the heavy-ion group at MIT as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Professor Lee's group and later worked as a Staff Research Physicist at CERN until 2018. His research primarily focuses on characterizing high-density temperature Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) matter, particularly in ultra-peripheral head-on heavy-ion collisions. He has developed innovative analysis techniques and data-acquisition strategies to perform novel measurements of open heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions. Innocenti's current research involves the design and employment of new jet-substructure correlation observables to understand the modification of heavy-quark parton showers in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). He is also leading a new hardware program that exploits CMOS technology to build a high-accuracy tracker detector for the ePIC experiment at the forthcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

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