[All_jlau] Message from Hugh Montgomery: JLab Appointments Deputy Associate Director for Nuclear Physics

[Pat Stroop]

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that Patrizia Rossi has been selected to serve as
the lab's Deputy Associate Director for Nuclear Physics.

She will begin her new duties at the lab in May, but many of you will
already know Patrizia through her work with Hall B and the Italian
collaboration on the 12 GeV program.

Please join me in welcoming her to the lab.

Attached is the news release that will be distributed to the scientific and
general news media.

Mont

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***JEFFERSON LAB SELECTS ITALIAN PHYSICIST*

*AS DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS*

NEWPORT NEWS, Feb. 8 - Patrizia Rossi, a well-respected physicist from 
Italy with extensive experience in experimental physics, has been named 
deputy associate director for nuclear physics at the U.S. Department of 
Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, concluding a 
months-long international search.

Rossi, a senior staff scientist at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of 
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (LNF-INFN), will begin her duties 
at Jefferson Lab in May.

"Patrizia is an outstanding scientist and a valuable addition to the 
lab," said Jefferson Lab Director Hugh Montgomery. "She brings 
experience as a manager and extensive knowledge of Jefferson Lab, which 
will greatly benefit our research efforts as we prepare for the future 
and the start of our 12 GeV experimental program."

Since 2003, Rossi has served as co-spokesperson and LNF coordinator of 
the Italian participation at Jefferson Lab. The Italian collaboration is 
fully involved in the 12 GeV program, which will begin in 2015. Rossi 
also has served as chair of the service work committee in Jefferson 
Lab's experimental Hall B since 2004 and has been a member of the Hall B 
technical and ad hoc committees since 2002. In March 2010, she also 
served as a member of the lab's Program Advisory Committee, a panel of 
leading scientists that selects experiments to be run at the lab.

Rossi received a degree in physics from the University of Rome in 1986. 
In 1988, she received a fellowship from INFN to conduct research and 
then joined the Frascati National Laboratory as a staff researcher in 1990.

Her research has focused on studying the structure of the nucleon and 
the strong force, areas of major emphasis at Jefferson Lab. In addition 
to Jefferson Lab and laboratories in Italy, Rossi also has conducted 
experiments at DESY Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany and the ESRF 
Laboratory in Grenoble, France.

Rossi is a referee for such publications as /Physics Letters B, Nuclear 
Physics A, European Physics Journal A, Israel Science Foundation, 
Applied Radiation and Isotopes/, and /Science & Technology Facilities 
Council/ (UK). She also has been a collaborator on more than 160 
refereed journal papers, and has served as a member of numerous 
conferences and workshops, including those in Italy, Russia, Armenia and 
Romania.

"Patrizia will be of tremendous value to the overall nuclear physics 
program at Jefferson Lab, in terms of Physics Division planning, 
optimizing collaboration and productivity, and increasing JLab science 
visibility. I am mightily pleased that she chose to join us," said Rolf 
Ent, associate director for nuclear physics.

"This is an exciting time to join Jefferson Lab as it grows and becomes 
an ever more interesting place to do research," Rossi said. "The 12 GeV 
Upgrade is a reality and is providing a challenge to develop new ideas 
and proposals to the science program. I am looking forward to becoming 
part of this dynamic effort."

Jefferson Lab is a world-leading nuclear physics research facility 
located in Newport News and is one of 10 national laboratories funded by 
the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The lab employs more 
than 800 people and serves more than 1,300 scientists from around the 
world who use the lab's unique facilities to conduct experiments.

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