CV

Education

• Liceo Scientifico’s Diploma, 100/100 with honours, Liceo Marconi, Carrara (MS), Italy, 2013
• B.Sc. in Physics, 110/110 with honours, University of Bologna, Italy, 2016
• M.Sc. in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, 110/110 with honours, University of Bologna, Italy, 2018
• Ph.D in High Energy Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham, UK, 2022
• Postdoctoral researcher, Creighton University, USA, June 2022 onwards

Work experience

• Autumn and Winter 2018 to 2019: Teaching Assistant
  • University of Birmingham, UK
  • Duties included: Marking students’ assignments
• Oct 2019 to Oct 2020: Long Term Appointment (LTA)
  • CERN, Geneva
  • Duties included:
    • Physics analyses
    • Firmware projects
    • Hardware testing
• Autumn and Winter 2020 to 2021: Teaching Assistant
  • University of Birmingham, UK
  • Duties included: Demonstrator in Python Labs
• June 2022 onwards: Potdoctoral reseacher
  • Creighton University, USA
  • Duties included:
    • UPCs
    • ALICE Coffee Series @CERN
    • EMCAL trigger simulation responsible
    • ALICE Outreach Board member
    • ALICE social media manager
• October 2024 onwards: ALICE PAG UPC convener

Skills

• Programming
  • C++
  • Python
  • VHDL
  • Latex
• Data Analysis
  • ROOT
  • Python
  • C++
• Statistics
• Machine Learning
• Heavy Ion Physics
• Ultraperipheral Collisions
• Writer

Publications

Production of pions, kaons and protons in Xe–Xe collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.44 TeV

Coherent J/Psi photoproduction at forward rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Recent results for forward J/Psi production in Pb-Pb Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector

UPC : a powerful tool for J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

New measurements on diffractive vector mesons

BOOK: Become a particle physicist in eight simple moves

First polarisation measurement of coherently photoproduced J/Psi in ultra-peripheral Pb−Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Exclusive and dissociative J/Psi photoproduction, and exclusive dimuon production, in p-Pb collisions at 8.16 TeV

Recent results on J/Psi photoproduction in ultra-peripheral collisions with ALICE

Energy dependence of coherent photonuclear production of J/Psi mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Talks

Charged hadrons: production in Xe-Xe collisions. Details of the TOF analysis.

July 19, 2018

Presentation at CERN, CERN

Poster on the production of pions, kaons and protons with the ALICE detector in Xe–Xe collisions at 5.44 TeV

July 30, 2018

Poster at Bologna, San Domenico's Centre, Bologna, Italy

J/Psi photoproduction at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb UPC

July 24, 2019

Presentation at ALICE Physics Week, Prague, Prague

Poster on recent results with Pb-Pb UPC with the ALICE detector at 5.02 TeV

July 30, 2019

Poster at Glasgow, Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Outreach with High School Students

February 18, 2020

Presentation at Pisa, Pisa, Italy

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

March 26, 2020

Presentation at Supposedly CERN, but actually Zoom due to Covid..., Geneva, my living room

UPC : a powerful tool for J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

May 25, 2020

Poster at Supposedly Paris, but actually Zoom due to Covid..., Paris, Zoom

UPC in ALICE: a powerful microscope for gluon pdf

September 25, 2020

Presentation at UK Nuclear Lockdown Seminars, Zoom, UK Nuclear Lockdown Seminars, Zoom

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

September 25, 2020

Presentation at ALICE Physics Week, Zoom, ALICE Physics Week, Zoom

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

April 12, 2021

Presentation at Joint IOP for Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astrophysics, My room...?, Zoom

New measurements on diffractive vector mesons

June 08, 2021

Presentation at LHCP 2021, My room...?, Zoom

Teaching

Particles and Nuclei

Particles and Neutrinos

Service and leadership

• Together with Tapan Nayak: ALICE social media manager
• Together with my dear Colleagues Mike Sas and Jiyoung Kim, we are the ALICE Journal Club’s organisers
• Together with my dear Colleagues Mike Sas and Livia Terlizzi, we are the organisers of the ALICE Coffe Series @CERN