Sushanta Tripathy, a post-doc INFN fellow at INFN Bologna Unit, was appointed by the Phsyics Coordination of the ALICE Experiment convener of the Physics Working Group “Monte Carlo generators and minimum-bias physics”. The appointment has been endorsed officially from the ALICE Collaboration Board last 10th June.

Sushanta graduated at Pondicherry Central University, in India and obtained his Ph.D. at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Indore in 2019. Before joining INFN Bologna in January 2020, he had positions as visiting researcher at Lund University in Sweden and at UNAM in Mexico City as post-doc.

Sushanta’s extensive research work covers the study of hadronic resonances from proton-proton to heavy-ion collisions, including the \phi meson and the debated f0(980) state, and the study of global observables as event shapes, multiplicity and spherocity. As INFN fellow, besides leading several ALICE publications, he authored on his own several papers with few collaborators, including a review in Scientific Reports on event topology and global observables in heavy-ion collisions and a study published on Physical Review D estimating the impact parameter and transverse spherocity using machine learning (Artificial Intelligence) techniques. Since 2021, Sushanta has also joined the ERC-CosmicAntiNuclei project at the University of Bologna, working on the development of an afterburner model for antinuclei formation using Monte Carlo event generators.

In this new role, Sushanta will be a member of the ALICE Physics Board and will coordinate analyses on luminosity measurements, multiplicity, underlying event and supervision of Monte Carlo generators used in ALICE analyses. He will take service effective since September 1st.