Matteo Cacciari

Research keywords

Phenomenology at large colliders, detailed and realistic predictions of experimental results; electromagnetic radiative corrections, perturbative QCD, heavy quarkonium, heavy quarks, heavy ion physics, clustering algorithms and analysis of experimental data

Positions

2016 - 2021
Head of the Physics Department of Université Paris Cité
2014 - 2023
Since 2007
Professor at Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) [Now Université Paris Cité]
2003 - 2007
Maïtre de Conférences at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) [Now Sorbonne Université]
2001 - 2003
Research Fellow at Università di Parma
2000
Research Associate at YITP, State University of New York in Stony Brook
1998 - 2000
Fellow at CERN
1997 - 1998
Postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at LPT Orsay
1995 - 1997
Research Associate at DESY Hamburg

Education

1991 - 1995
1986 - 1991

Research grants

2025 - 2029
ANR "P2S2", with G. Soyez
2015 - 2019
ANR "OptimalJets", with G. Soyez
2011 - 2014
French node of LHCPhenoNet, European ITN network
2009 - 2013
ANR "Jet3G", with G. Salam
2009 - 2010
P2I grant for a postdoctoral position, with G. Salam
2005 - 2008
ANR "Advanced QCD reconstruction tools for collider physics", with G. Salam

Tasks

Research-related

Since 2023
"Délégué Scientifique" at CNRS Physics
In charge of computing, research data, artificial intelligence, Open Science.
2014 - 2023
Director of the Fédération de Recherche "Interactions Fondamentales" (FRIF)
The FRIF is a research federation (FR2687) sponsored by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, the CNRS and the École Normale Supérieure. It connects the laboratories LPT-ENS, LPNHE and LPTHE, the theory group of APC and the gravitation and cosmology (GReCO) group at IAP.
2011 - 2016
Coordinator of French node of the LHCPhenoNet European Initial Training Network
LHCPhenoNet is a pan-european training network centred around precision calculations in particle phenomenology for the LHC. The French node is composed of researchers from the LPTHE in Paris and the IPhT in Saclay.
2011 - 2020
Member of Institut Lagrange de Paris Scientific Board and Steering Board
2008 - 2012
Member of "Conseil de Laboratoire" of LPTHE

Academia-related

Since 2021
"Chargé de mission" at Université Paris Cité
Coordinator of the Graduate Schools programme of the university and scientific and technical officer of the ANR project SMARTS-UP.
2012 - 2016
Member of the Scientific Board of the Physics Department of Université Paris Diderot
2012 - 2016
Rapporteur of the applications for the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)", Physics Department, Université Paris Diderot
2014 - 2016
Coordinator of the Master "Physique Fondamentale et Sciences pour l'Ingénieur" of the Physics Department of Université Paris Diderot
2004 - 2007
Member of the "Commission de Spécialistes", UPMC