RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Since 2026 Level III Researcher at INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Bologna Division
2023 – 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh
2021 – 2023 Senior Research Fellow at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
2019 – 2020 Assegno di Ricerca at the University of Bologna
2018 Associate Member of CERN Personnel
2015 Internship at LAL (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire), Orsay, France
2013 Summer Student at SLAC (National Accelerator Laboratory), Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
EDUCATION
2015 – 2019 PhD in Physics, University of Bologna, evaluation: excellent with honors (cum laude).
Thesis: "CP violation in D0 → K+ K− and D0 → π+ π− decays and lepton flavour universality test with the decay B0 → D∗− τ+ ντ"
2012 – 2015 Master's Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara, final grade 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: "A study of B0 -> D*- tau+ nu_tau with Three-Prong tau Decays at LHCb"
2009 – 2012 Bachelor's Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara, final grade 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: "Design and Study of a Prototype for the LHCb Muon Detector"
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2026 – 2027 Adjunct Professor for the course Computer Science for High Energy Physics (Module 4) of the International Master on Advanced Methods in Particle Physics, jointly offered by Université Clermont Auvergne, Technische Universität Dortmund, and the University of Bologna
2019 – 2020 Teaching Tutor for the General Physics T-A course, Bachelor's Degree in Energy Engineering, University of Bologna
2018 Co-supervisor of two Bachelor's theses and two Master's theses
2014 – 2015 Teaching Tutor for the General Physics I course, Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ferrara
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
I have been a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN since 2015, where my main research focus is the measurement of CP violation in the decays of hadrons containing the charm quark. I am particularly known as the lead author of the measurement that established the existence of CP violation in charm meson decays. I have also worked on lepton flavour universality measurements in semitauonic decays of the B^0 meson, and I have contributed to the combination of results for the determination of the CKM angle γ and of the CP violation and mixing parameters of charm mesons, both within LHCb and in collaboration with members of the UTfit collaboration. I have further participated in the study of new electromagnetic calorimeter prototypes for the LHCb detector Upgrade-1b and Upgrade-2. I have also worked on the monitoring and performance of the LHCb RICH detector.
