ORCHID: 0000-0003-2149-3791
2022 - present Permanent staff scientist at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Campus Zeuthen) DE

Employment history

2018 - 2024 Helmholz Young Investigator Group Leader (YIG) at DESY, Campus Zeuthen DE
2016 - 2018 Research fellow at CERN, Geneva CH
2014 - 2016 Postdoc Researcher at Stockholm University and Oskar Klein Center, Stockholm SE

Education and titles

2014 PhD in Particle Physics. Universiteit van Amsterdam and Nikhef (NL), with honors, top 3-5%. Supervisor: Paul de Jong thesis pdf
2010 Master degree in Subnuclear Physics. Sapienza University of Rome (IT), 110/110 with honors
2008 Bachelor degree in physics. Sapienza University of Rome (IT), 110/110 with honors

Awards and research fundings

2024 - 2029 ERC Starting grant ”BARD: B-resonance Algoritm using Rare Decays”, grant no. 101116429
2020 - 2021 KRANOS project - GO-Bio Initial (Exploratory Phase) from BMBF
2020 Hertha Sponer Prize, German Physics Society (DPG), Germany.
Awarded to a female scientist for outstanding scientific work in the field of physics.
2019 - 2021 KRANOS project - DESY Generator Program (cost-neutral extension due to Covid-19 to 2023)
1018 - 2024 Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “On top of Dark Matter”, grant no. VH-NG-1304
2015 ATLAS Thesis Award, awarded by the ATLAS Collaboration to the 6 best PhD thesis of year 2014 (out of 100)

Scientific coordination roles

2022 Session Convener at ICHEP XLI International Conference on High Energy Physics - Dark Matter track (IT) 300 session participans, 1500 conference participants
2020 - 2022 Convener of the ATLAS dark matter subgroup (CDM) and LPCC Dark Matter Working Group 200 active scientists
2018 - 2020 Coordinator of distributed analyses (ATLAS computing and big-data) interactions within ATLAS at large, 1000 active scientists
2017 - 2018 Editor of the Dark Matter ATLAS Summary paper 20 analyses, 100 scientists
2016 - 2017 Coordinator of the third generation squarks ATLAS subgroup (Supersymmetry) 80 active scientists

Institutional responsibilities

2023 - present Convener of exotics searches for ATLAS Germany
2019 - 2022 Particle physics deputy topic speaker, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (Research Field: “Matter”, Program: “Matter and Universe”)