NPFlavour

The Flavour of New Physics

  Education

• PhD in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Supervisors: A. Masiero and R. Petronzio (1998)
• Degree in Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Supervisor: G. Martinelli (1993)

  Career

• Research Director, INFN Rome (since 2011)
• First Researcher, INFN Rome (2006--2011)
• Visiting Scientist, Technische Universität Müenchen (2005)
• Researcher, INFN Rome (2001--2005)
• Research Associate, Technische Universität Müenchen (2000)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1999--2001)
• Research Associate, Technische Universität Müenchen (1997-1999)
• “Angelo della Riccia” fellowship,Technische Universität Müenchen (1997)

 Research Topics

• Flavour and CP violation in the Standard Model and beyond
• Weak decays in the Standard Model and in its supersymmetric extensions
• Phenomenology of the minimal supersymmetric standard model
• Models with flavour symmetries
• Unitarity triangle analysis and constraints on new physics (member of the UTfit Collaboration)
• Alternative mechanisms for electroweak symmetry breaking in models with extra dimensions
• Flavour physics in models with extra dimensions

 Scientific Publications

• List of publications from INSPIRE
• Citation summary from INSPIRE

 Top Five Plenary Talks

• “Theory of Nonleptonic B Decays”
  8th International Symposium on Heavy Flavour Physics
  University of Southampton, UK, 25-29 july 1999.
• “K Physics and Supersymmetry”
  Kaon 2001
  Pisa, Italy, 12-16 june 2001.
• “Rare decays and CP violation beyond the Standard Model”
  Lepton-Photon 2005, XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energy
  Uppsala, Sweden, 30 june-5 july 2005.
• “Lattice QCD and New Physics searches: present and future”
  XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
  College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 14-19 july 2008.
• “Theory and B-factory results”
  HCP2009 - Hadron Collider Physics Symposium
  Evian, France, 16-20 november 2009.

 Top Five Scientific Charges

• Convener of the “Flavour and CP” session, 12th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, Tsukuba, Japan, 2004
• Convener of Working Group II “B/D/K decays”, Flavour in the era of the LHC, CERN, Switzerland, 2005-2007
• Convener of Working Group VI “Angles from penguin dominated B decays”, CKM2008 Workshop on the Unitarity Triangle, Rome, Italy, 2008
• National Coordinator of RM21 research group, INFN, since 2008
• Principal Investigator of NPFlavour Ideas Starting Grant, 2011-2016

 Teaching activity

• Teaching assistant of A.J. Buras, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 1998-1999
• Lectures on Flavour Theory, X Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica, Parma, Italy, 2001
• PhD Lectures on Supersymmetry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 2001-2004
• Lectures on Introduction to Gauge-Higgs Unification, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2000
• PhD Lectures on Supersymmetry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 2006-2010
• Lectures on B physics and CP violation, Summer School on Particle Physics in the LHC ERA, ICTP Trieste, Italy, 2009
• Lectures on Weak Interactions in the Standard Model and Beyond, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 2010-
• Lectures on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, 2012-