Current position

Jul. 2018 – now:     Associate Researcher at INFN – Sezione di Torino, holder of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grant for the EU-funded project LHCBIGDATA - CMS experiment

 

Previous positions

Oct. 2009 – Dec. 2017:  Associate Researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich (Germany) - ATLAS experiment

Jan. 2007 – Sep. 2009:  Associate Researcher at the Max Plank Institute for Physics (MPI) in Munich (Germany) - ATLAS experiment

Aug. 2006 – Sep. 2006:    Guest scientist at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil - LHCb experiment

Oct. 2001 –  Dec. 2006:    Ph.d Student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland - LHCb experiment

Sep. 2000 –  Sep. 2001:    Software developer at Telecom Italia Lab in the Internet  services and Multimedia division, Turin (Italy)

Feb. 2000 –  Apr. 2000:    Guest scientist at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Chicago (USA) - E835 experiment   

 

Education

Sep. 2006:    Ph. D.  in Physics at EPFL. Evaluated by a jury of international experts among the 5% best theses at EPFL in 2006. Thesis title: ‘Contribution to the Development of  the LHCb acquisition electronics and Study of polarized radiative Λb decays’ 

Jul. 2000:    Diploma (Laurea) in Physics (2000) at the University of Turin. Full mark and honor. Diploma title: ‘Formation of the state hc     of charmonium in the reaction pp→ hc → ηc γ → φφγ → 4Kγ’                                                  

Jul. 1994:    Diploma di maturità scientifica (1994) at Liceo Scientifico di Stato G. Segrè (Turin, Italy), Full mark

Jun. 1993:    High School Graduation (1993) at West Ouachita High School in West Monroe (LA, USA)

 

Additional courses

Apr. 2019:        Certified online course (EdX) Quantum Machine Learning at Toronto University 

Aug. 2017:    Third International Summer School for Big Data at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching (Germany)

2001 – 2005:    Physics Post-graduate lectures (Troisième Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande), Switzerland

Mar. 2004:    Second Physics Transalpin seminar – Astronomy and Cosmology in Dolomieu (France)

Aug. 2002:    European school of High-Energy Physics in Pylos (Greece) 

Mar. 2002:    Texas Instruments DSP/BIOS 3.5 Days Design Workshop in Paris (France)

Dec. 2001:    Texas Instruments DSP C6711 1 Day Workshop at the EPFL

 

Awards and Grants

2018:        Winner of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship

2007:        Winner of Prospective Researcher Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation

2006:        Winner of High Energy Latin-American European Network (HELEN) fellowship

1993:        Winner of Louisiana State Superintendent's Writing Award