ACADEMIC TITLES
July 1991, High School Diploma, Liceo Classico 'D. Crespi', Busto Arsizio, Italy
October 2004, Degree in Physics, 110/110 cum laude, University of Milan, Italy. Thesis title: 'Infrared behavior of the running coupling in QCD, the analytic approach'. Supervisor: G. M. Prosperi
2004-2007 Ph.D. course in Theoretical Physics at University of Milan, Italy. Title obtained in Feb 2008. Thesis in Quantum Chromodynamics: 'Extraction of characteristic constants in QCD with perturbative and non-perturbative methods'. Advisor: S. Forte. arXiv:0807.1501[hep-ph]
EMPLOYMENT
Since January 2008 Research Assistant at the Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
G.M. Prosperi, M. Raciti, and C. Simolo, On the running coupling constant in QCD, Progr. Part. Nucl. Phys. 58 (2007) 387-438. doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2006.09.001 [arXiv:hep-ph/0607209].
M. Baldicchi, A.V. Nesterenko, G.M. Prosperi, D.V. Shirkov, and C. Simolo, Bound state approach to the QCD coupling constant at low-energy scales, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 242001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.242001. arXiv:0705.0329 [hep-ph].
M. Baldicchi, A.V. Nesterenko, G.M. Prosperi, and C. Simolo, QCD coupling below 1GeV from quarkonium spectrum, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 034013. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77. 034013. arXiv:0705.1695 [hep-ph].
C. Simolo, M. Brunetti, M. Maugeri, and T. Nanni, Improving estimation of missing values in daily precipitation series by a probability density function-preserving approach, Int. J. Climatol. 30 (2010) 1564-1576. doi: 10.1002/joc.1992.
A.V. Nesterenko, and C. Simolo, QCDMAPT: Program package for Analytic approach to QCD, Comput.Phys.Commun.181 (2010) 1769-1775. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2010.06.040. arXiv: 1001.0901v1 [hep-ph].
M. Brunetti, G. Lentini, M. Maugeri, T. Nanni, C. Simolo, and J. Spinoni, Projecting North Eastern Italy temperature and precipitation secular records onto a high-resolution grid, Phys. Chem. Earth, doi: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.12.005, in press.
C. Simolo, M. Brunetti, M. Maugeri, T. Nanni, and A. Speranza, Understanding climate change-induced variations in daily temperature distributions over Italy, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JD014088, in press.
