University of Cagliari
Physics Department
Academic titles
02.2014. Ph.D. in Physics. ETH, Zurich Polytechnic, Switzerland.
Thesis: "Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson produced in association with a Z boson with the CMS detector at the LHC."
Speakers: Prof. C. Grab, Prof. G. Dissertori
07.2010. Master in Physics. University of Padua, Italy.
Thesis title: "Preliminary study of the average time-integrated mixing probability of b-flavored hadrons as a sensitive test for the multimuon production rate with the CMS detector at the LHC."
Speakers: Prof. F. Simonetto, Dr. T. Dorigo
Work experiences
since 2020 Assistent professor. University of Cagliari.
Physics department. Cagliari. Italy.
2019-2020 Senior research fellow. CERN. European Center for Nuclear Research.
Physics department. Geneva. Switzerland.
2014-2019 Research associate (post-doc). University of Florida.
Departments of High Energy Physics. Gainesville. United States.
Based at CERN laboratories, Geneva, Switzerland.
2010-2014 Research Assistant. ETH. Zurich Polytechnic.
Inborn of particle physics and astrophysics (IPA). Zurich, Switzerland.
2010-2014 Teaching assistant. ETH. Zurich Polytechnic.
Inborn of particle physics and astrophysics (IPA). Zurich, Switzerland.
Awards
2020 Rientro dei giovani ricercatori (Rita Levi Montalcini)
2019 CERN Fellowship
2018 CMS Achievement award
2015 Guest & Visitor grant at FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Recent conference talks
2021. "Higgs physics: experimental talk". (CMS+ATLAS). Plenary talk. LHCP2021, Paris, France. (link to recording)
2018. "The latest results of the measurement of the Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks pair". (CMS). Parallel talk. ICHEP2018, Seul, South Korea.
2017. "Description of the current CMS trigger". Plenary talk. TDII-2018, Puebla, Mexico.
2017. "Higgs and new physics". Parallel talk. WIN2017, Irvine, California.
Most recent publication
I am co-author of more than 1000 publications with the CMS collaboration (link to inspires profile). My most recent work to highlight is:
CMS Collaboration. Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons. JHEP 01 (2021) 148. [ https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04363 ]