Bio

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • May 2020 – present: researcher in particle physics at ETH Zürich, author of the CMS collaboration at CERN and visiting researcher at the university of Oxford
  • June 2013 – present: author of the CDF collaboration at Fermilab
  • September 2016 – February 2020: CERN associate research graduate and author of the ATLAS collaboration
  • June 2014 – October 2015: visiting scientist at Fermilab – Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (USA)
  • October 2012 – October 2013: associated to the Italian INFN – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – Sezione di Bologna

POSITIONS

  • September 2020 – present: coordinator of the CMS L3 group for the ECAL Detector Control System and Safety System
  • February 2017 – present: founder, webpage designer and coordinator of the Oxford particle physics summer student program, an international program for undergraduate and Master’s students in partnership with Heidelberg and Harvard universities
  • March 2019 – March 2020: Member of the ATLAS Early Career Scientist Board (chair for two months), a special advisory group dedicated to assisting the ATLAS Collaboration (about 5000 members) in building an environment where full scientific potential of young scientists can be realised
  • March 2017 – December 2018: ATLAS Shift leader responsible for the shift crew (8 shifters) and data-taking during the shift for several weeks; ATLAS Inner Detector shifter for several weeks

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • ATLAS Thesis Award 2020 for outstanding PhD contributions to the ATLAS collaboration composed by about 1200 graduates – CERN, February 2021
  • Fondazione “Angelo Della Riccia” grant – Florence, December 2015 and 2018
  • Distinguished-Cervinara-Citizen Award Plaque for Excellence in Academia and Research – Cervinara, May 2017
  • 2016 Denys Wilkinson Prize for Outstanding Academic First Year Performance in Particle Physics at the University Oxford – January 2017
  • Light Senior Scholarship, St. Catherine’s College – Oxford, May 2016
  • “Best poster award” at CHARM2016 – Bologna 2016
  • “Best poster award” at St. Catherine’s Graduates’ Dinner – Oxford, May 2016
  • Oxford Particle Physics DPhil Fellowship – Oxford, October 2015 – 2019
  • STFC Doctoral grant funded by the Research Councils (UK) – Oxford, October 2015 – March 2019

TEACHING

Since 2020 I teach at ETH Zürich. In addition, I mentored a summer student working on charm physics at Fermilab and I was also a lecturer at the University of Oxford for the Oxford Particle Physics Summer Student Program in 2018. In 2017 I started and coordinated the MoƲingKnowledge program for neutrino physics in collaboration with CAIF – the Cultural Associations of Italians at Fermilab – and the University of Pisa. After a successful first year, more funding allowed us to select more students, Harvard university joined the program and a new program for detectors development was created, ConnectingKnowledge. In 2019 the University of Heidelberg joined the ConnectingKnowledge program. Since 2017 I coordinate both the programs. Click the cover page of the websites below to access more information.

Top: Cover pages of the websites I designed for both the programs of the Oxford Particle Physics Summer Student Program, MoƲingKnowledge and ConnectingKnowledge. Bottom: photo of the program social dinner organised in 2018 at Balliol College in Oxford (left) and in 2017 at Pembroke College in Oxford (right) .