

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
TEAM

Head of INFN EuPRAXIA Project Office
Antonio Falone
Antonio Falone is an electronic engineer and senior project manager PMP certified with 20 years of experience in Research Institutions and private companies in the field of particle accelerators. He has worked at ALBA and for the SwissFEL project at PSI.
He is currently responsible for the Project Management Office of the Italian Pillar of the EuPRAXIA Project, member of the steering committee of EuPRAXIA-PP, member of the National Committee of Project Management at INFN and scientific responsible for the LATINO infrastructure at INFN-LNF.

Administrative Project Manager
Catia Conti
Catia Conti has been working for INFN since 1998.
She has experience in financial reporting, contractual issues and audit procedures related to research projects financed by European Commission (FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020 and HE Programmes), ESA, Italian Ministries and other Institutions, USA Silicon Valley Community Foundation and CERN.
Certified in Project Management: PM Basic in 2012 and Prince 2 Foundation in 2015.

Eupraxia Project Office Assistant
Andrea Pesce
Andrea Pesce has a background in accelerator physics, built during his PhD at University of Ferrara and Forschungszentrum Juelich. While working in Germany, he was part of the research team in two ERC-Advance projects, collecting experience also on the project managing side. He then joined the Research Services Division at the INFN Central Administration in 2023, giving support to researchers who want to apply for national and international grants.

Content Designer and Communications
Alexandra Welsch
Alexandra Welsch has been working as part of the Project TEAM based at the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool, UK since 2011. Her work includes the development and administration of multiple large-scale project websites. She is also in charge of the actualisation of the social media presence of these projects, as well as the creation and distribution of different newsletters and wider project communication. In June 2015 Alexandra joined the Accelerating News editorial board and became a member of the EuPRAXIA Management Support Team in 2016.