I received my PhD from the University of Cagliari with a thesis on rare decays of B-mesons at LHCb. From 2009 to 2013 I was postdoc at NIKHEF (The Netherlands) and at the University of Zurich, mostly based at CERN in Geneva. I was convener of the Electroweak Penguin Working Group of LHCb in the years 2012 and 2013. I have been awarded an SNS Professorship in July 2013 and an ERC Starting Grant in March 2015.
My research interests are mainly studies of rare decays of B-meson, lepton flavour violating decays of B-meson and tau leptons and search for very weakly interacting particles, in particular searches for sterile neutrinos.
As a member of the LHCb collaboration I have been based at CERN since 2006. I work both on hardware projects and physics analysis. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and I obtained my PhD at the Vrije Universiteit/Nikhef in 2011 working on the thesis "First measurement of the fragmentation fraction ratio fs/fd with tree level hadronic decays at 7 TeV pp collisions". Since November 2011, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. I'm presently technical and operational coordinator of the LHCb experiment, and coordinating the design of the upstream veto and timing detectors in the SHiP experiment.
My research interests range from hardware development and laboratory tests to the analysis of rare decays of B-mesons and search of weakly interacting particles, in particular sterile neutrinos.
I studied Physics at the Universities of Siena and Pisa (Italy) from 2007 to 2013. As an intern, I worked on GEM detectors for TOTEM and the RD51 collaboration, and on silicon sensors for the CMS upgrade. The development of a GPU-based low level trigger for rare kaon decays at NA62 has been my Master's thesis project. Since the start of my PhD in Zurich in 2014, I have undertaken three main projects: the analysis of the SHiP physics performance, the operation and monitoring of the LHCb silicon tracker, and the analysis of LHCb data.