Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Current employment: Professore Ordinario, Physics Department, Università Sapienza

Academic education:
03: Ph. D. in Physics, Università "La Sapienza" (Roma). Advisor: Prof. F.Ferroni.
99: Laurea in Fisica Università "La Sapienza" (Roma), 110/110 e lode, Advisors: Prof. F. Ferroni, S. Morganti;

Academic Work Experience:
22-now: Professore Ordinario Università ``Sapienza'' of Rome
19-now: coordinator of the INFN National Scientific Committee 1 in Roma
18-now: director of Scuola di dottorato in acceleratori
15-22: Professore Associato Università ``Sapienza'' of Rome
15-16: Scientific Associate at Cern
06-15: Ricercatore Universitario, Università ``Sapienza'' of Rome
08 and 12: INFN-CERN associate
05-06: INFN Researcher, Sezione di Napoli
03-05: PostGraduate Researcher, Physics Department University of Cal. San Diego;

Teaching and supervision experience:
Teaching: 22-23: Course in Nuclear and Particle Physics (6 CFU) and course in Mechanics, Sapienza Physics Department (12 CFU).17-23: Course in Mechanics, Sapienza Physics Department (12 CFU). 13-15: Course in Mechanics Laboratory, Sapienza Physics Department (12 CFU). 09-12: Course in Physics, Sapienza , Natural Science Department (6 CFU). 08-11: Teaching assistant for a course in Mechanics, Sapienza Physics Department.
Supervision of students: 9 PhD theses, 8 Master theses, ~20 Bachelor theses.

Major Scientific Achievements:
14-now: proponent of fast-timing detectors for the upgrade of the CMS for the so-called Phase2 (TDR public)
10-14: discovery and analysis of the Higgs boson decaying in two-photon and ZZ (two-leptons two-jets) final states (several published papers and many public notes)
10-12: studies of jet properties and composition for the discrimination between quark and gluon jets and for the rejection of jets from pile-up events and calibration of jet energy scale (publications and crucial for CMS analysis)
06-now: search of new physics in final states with photons and MET in the Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking scenario and in final states with photons and with jets (several publications)

Projects and Awards:
20-22: PI, Progetto di ricerca d Ateneo, Study and monitoring of the Covid-19 epidemics using mortality data and calls to the 118 emergency medical services , 13 K euro
19-21: participant, Progetto di ricerca d Ateneo, LYSO crystal characterization for the Mip Timing Detector of CMS experiment , 15 k euro
18-20: PI, Progetto di ricerca d Ateneo, Precision timing for the upgrade of the CMS experiment , 12.5 K euro
18-20: participant, Grandi Attrezzature Ateneo, A Scalable Artificial Intelligence system for Machine and Deep Learning Research and Training at Sapienza Università di Roma , 300 K euro
16-18: PI, Progetto di ricerca d Ateneo, Precision timing in high energy physics , Università Sapienza Rome, 15K euro
14-16: PI, Progetto di ricerca d Ateneo, Precision timing in high energy physics , Università Sapienza Rome, 50K euro
18 and 20: Riconoscimento eccellente insegnamento universitario, Scienze, Sapienza.

Most relevant responsibilities in International Collaborations:
18-22: Italy manager of CMS MIP timing detector, INFN founding for 2018-2024 3.6M euro
16-19: group leader of the CMS Rome group, INFN specific grant, ~200K euro/year (excluding salaries)
14-16: convener of the CMS Exotica analysis working group (hundreds of members)
13-14: convener of the CMS analysis working group that studies Long-Lived Exotics Particles (about 50 members)
12-14: convener of the Jets subgroup of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group.
10-12: convener of the CMS JetMET working group (about 100 members)
04-05: convener of the BaBar analysis working group that studies the exclusive hadronic B meson decays in final states with charm (B -> DX) (about 70 members

Membership and Committees and other charges in experiments:
05-now: CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) user/associate
16-now: member of the EXO/B2G Pub Com Board of CMS
08-10: member of the Editorial Board of the ECAL of CMS
1999-08: SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) user/associate

Organization of conferences and workshops:
15: chair and organizer of the EXOTICS sessions at the LHCP international conference, held in Saint Petersburg.
14 and 15: organizer of the CMS Exotica workshop , Venezia and Madrid
05: organization of CKM Workshop 2005 held in San Diego, California
03: organizer of the Vxb workshop held at Slac in December 2003

Referee in National and international research programs:
20-now: president of panel for postdoc positions (assegni di ricerca) at RM1 INFN
16: member of FY 2017 DOE/HEP Energy Frontier panel
16-19: president of panel for postdoc positions (assegni di ricerca) at LNGS INFN
16-now: referee for Research Grants Counil (RCG) of Hong Kong and Swiss National Science Foundation Grants and referee for programma Vinci, Universita Italo-Francese

Publications and talks:
WoS core collection base: ~1500 publications, ~80000 citations, h-index=132
More than 16 invited presentations at international conferences (e.g. LHCp, ICHEP, Moriond). Many talks and lectures at international workshops and schools.

Editor and referee:
14-now: referee of Journal of High Energy Physics
10-now: referee of Physics Letters B

Research activities:
I am an experimental high energy physicist. Since 2006 I am a member of CMS, one of the four experiments running at the LHC. My work in CMS has been mainly devoted to five topics:
1) studies of fast-timing detectors for the upgrade of the CMS detector for the so-called Phase2, which corresponds to the LHC luminosity increase foreseen in 2025. I have obtained several grants to develop prototypes of fast timing detectors. This activity produced a few publications. Recently, the CMS Collaboration approved the construction of a new detector to provide MIP time-tagging and I have been nominated as the Italy manager of the CMS of this new MIP timing detector.
2) analysis for the search of the Higgs boson decaying in two photons and ZZ/WW (two leptons, two jets) final states. These studies produced several papers and contributed to the discovery of a new boson at 125 GeV. I have also collaborated with theorists for the interpretation of the Higgs results.
3) studies of jet properties and composition for the discrimination between quark and gluon jets and for the rejection of pile-up jet events and jet energy calibration using g+jet events and studies on alternative jet reconstruction methods.
4) search for new physics in final states with photons in two topologies: photon and MET in the Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking scenario and diphoton final state.
5) work on the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL). Since I joined the collaboration in 2006 I have been always involved in the maintenance, commissioning and calibration of the ECAL. In particular, I have studied the time measurement of the ECAL, crucial for the identification of off-time new physics signatures and for the rejection of the backgrounds, which come from additional pp interactions.

From 1998 to 2007 I have been a member of BaBar, the experiment at the B-factory PEPII at SLAC (Stanford, USA). My activity concentrated on the measurement of the Standard Model parameters and on the study of the B decays.