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.
I graduated in physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2013. While at university, I worked as a summer student for CDF and NA62, and as a technical student for LHCb, where I investigated how to improve the online selection of hadronic heavy–flavor decays. After graduating, I started a PhD at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where I am currently working on data analysis, on one side, and R&D and testing activities on silicon microstrip sensors in view of the upgrade of the LHCb tracking system, on the other.
I graduated in physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) and Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in 2014. In summer 2013 I worked as a summer student at CERN where I did my master thesis with CMS. Since June 2014 I have been a PhD student at the University of Zurich, working on the LHCb experiment. My research interest are mainly the search for long living particles and the study of rare B-meson decays.
As LHCb member since 2008, my research interests have been related to searches for new sources of CP violation through amplitude analyses of b-hadron charmless three-body decays. I did my undergraduate and Master studies at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), focusing on searches for asymmetries in the B→Kππ phase space using model independent approaches. During my Ph.D. at University of Warwick, my primary research was based on extending these studies to decays of neutral B mesons and beauty baryons to final states containing long-lived particles. Since May 2015 I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, mainly involved in searches for lepton universality violation in rare decays of B mesons.