Curriculum Vitae

I am a Professor (W2, jointly-appointed with DESY) at the Universität Bern and lead the Standard Model and Beyond (SMB) team at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. The current and former members of the team are listed on the team page.

Institutional pages: Universität Bern, LHEP staff page, Quantum Universe Excellence Cluster and DESY ATLAS group directory.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7075-2214 · INSPIRE-HEP: author profile. Selected publications are listed on the publications page.

Employment history

2025 - present Professor (W2, jointly-appointed with DESY), Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2018 - present Staff scientist, Forschung Hochenergiephysik Division, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
2017 - 2018 Senior postdoctoral researcher in particle physics (Oberassistent), LHEP/AEC, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2014 - 2017 Postdoctoral researcher in particle physics (Assistent), LHEP/AEC, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Education and titles

2014 PhD in physics, astrophysics and applied physics, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy (Supervisor: Dr. Tommaso Lari)
2010 Master in physics, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
2008 Bachelor in physics, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Selected competitive funding

2023 - 2027 Co-PI, MuCol, funded under HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01, Horizon Europe Framework Programme, project ID 101094300
2023 - 2025 Co-PI, PATOF - “From the Past To the Future: Legacy Data in Small and Medium-Scale PUNCH Experiments - a Blueprint for PUNCH and Other Disciplines”, funded under the HMC project call 2022, Helmholtz Association, project ID ZT-I-PF-3-051
2025 - Key researcher, Quantum Universe Excellence Cluster, Universität Hamburg and DESY

Fellowships and awards

2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as a member of the ATLAS Collaboration
2012 - 2013 INFN-CERN fellowship, Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 - 2014 PhD scholarship, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
2006 - 2008 Annual scholarship of the Physics Department, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Leadership and Responsibility roles

2024 - present Deputy spokesperson of the LUXE experiment
2024 - 2026 ATLAS physics metadata coordinator
2021 - 2024 ATLAS data reprocessing coordinator
2021 - present Member of the IMCC Publication and Speakers committee
2021 - present Coordinator of computing and data acquisition for LUXE
2018 - 2020 Convener of the ATLAS supersymmetry working group
2018 Convener of the ATLAS vertex reconstruction subgroup
2015 - 2017 Convener of the ATLAS supersymmetry background forum and third generation squarks subgroups
2015 - 2016 Deputy project manager of ATLAS Pixel detector readout upgrade

Institutional responsibilities

2025 - 2027 Elected member of the DESY Scientific Committee (Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss, WA)
2018 - present Graduate Student Advisor, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany