Virginia Mazza

Virginia Mazza is a PhD candidate in Physics at the University of Bologna and a collaborator of the XENONnT experiment. Her research combines experimental data and Monte Carlo simulations to investigate inefficiencies in the Neutron Veto (NV) system and to evaluate the neutron tagging efficiency during the SR2 phase, which employed gadolinium-doped water. She obtained her MSc in Physics (110/110 cum laude), Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics track, presenting a thesis on NV performance using data and simulations from SR0 and SR1. She took part in neutron calibration campaigns at LNGS and contributed to the optimization of the Gd water purification system. She will contribute to the development of the XLZD detector, particularly to the NV system design, and is a co-author of The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics. She attended advanced schools (ISHEP, SOUP, DM&ν School), presented at the 110th SIF Congress, and has a strong interdisciplinary background and civic engagement.