Dr. Patrizia Rossi Dr. Patrizia Rossi, deputy associate director for nuclear physics at Jefferson Lab, is a well respected physicist from Italy with extensive experience in experimental physics. Her research focuses on studying the structure of the nucleon and the strong force, research areas of emphasis at Jefferson Lab. Dr. Rossi has conducted experiments at Jefferson Lab, laboratories in Italy, DESY Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany and the ESRF Laboratory in Grenoble, France. Dr. Rossi 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. She is a referee for Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics A, European Physics Journal A, Israel Science Foundation, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, and Science & Technology Facilities Council (UK). Dr. Rossi received her degree in physics from the University of Rome in 1986. In 1988, she received a fellowship from INFN to conduct research and thereafter joined the Frascati National Laboratory as a staff researcher in 1990. Prior to joining Jefferson Lab she was a senior staff scientist at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (LNF-INFN). Since 2003, Dr. Rossi has served as co-spokesperson and LNF coordinator of the Italian participation at Jefferson Lab. Dr. Rossi 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 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.