Curriculum Vitae
Stefania Gori
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth:
June 7, 1983
Place of birth:
Pisa, Italy
Nationality:
E-mail:
Italian
stefania.gori@uc.edu
EDUCATION & RESEARCH POSITIONS
Jan. 2016 - now
Sept. 2013 - Dec. 2015
Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2013
Assistant Professor, McMicken college of Arts and Sciences,
Physics Department, University of Cincinnati.
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
The University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory.
July 2010
PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics at Technical University Munich,
title thesis: “Randall-Sundrum Models vs. Supersymmetry:
the Different Flavor Signatures”,
supervisor Prof. A. J. Buras.
Oct. 2008
Licence at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa,
final score 70/70 cum laude,
title thesis: “Flavor physics in warped extra dimension
with custodial protection”,
supervisor Prof. R. Barbieri.
July 2007
Master Degree in Theoretical Physics at University of Pisa,
final score 110/110 cum laude,
title thesis: “Supersymmetry without a light Higgs boson”,
supervisor Prof. R. Barbieri.
July 2005
Bachelor Degree in Physics at University of Pisa,
final score 110/110 cum laude,
title thesis: “Photonic Crystals”,
supervisor Prof. G. La Rocca.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Higgs Physics
• Collider Physics
• Dark Matter
• Flavor Models & CP Violation
• Neutrino Physics
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND PREPRINTS
Bibliometric data according to Spires (the standard database for particle physics) on August 24, 2016:
1 famous paper (more than 250 citations), 9 very well-known papers (more than 100 citations); 2874
citations overall, 77.7 citations per paper, h-index 26.
[30] Closing the Wedge: Search Strategies for Extended Higgs Sectors with Heavy Flavor Final States,
S. Gori, I. W. Kim, N. R. Shah, K. M. Zurek,
Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 7, 075038 [arXiv: 1602.02782 [hep-ph]].
[29] On the 750 GeV Di-Photon excess,
W. Altmannshofer, J. Galloway, S. Gori, A. L. Kagan, A. Martin, J. Zupan,
Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 9, 095015 [arXiv: 1512.07616 [hep-ph]].
[28] The Zbb Couplings at Future e+ e− Colliders,
S. Gori, J. Gu, L. T. Wang,
JHEP 1604 (2016) 062 [arXiv: 1508.07010 [hep-ph]].
[27] Uncovering Mass Generation Through Higgs Flavor Violation,
W. Altmannshofer, S. Gori, A. L. Kagan, L. Silvestrini, J. Zupan,
Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 3, 031301 [arXiv: 1507.07927 [hep-ph]].
[26] Pseudoscalar Portal Dark Matter,
A. Berlin, S. Gori, T. Lin, L.T. Wang,
Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 015005 [arXiv: 1502.06000 [hep-ph]].
[25] Illuminating Dark Photons with High-Energy Colliders,
D. Curtin, R. Essig, S. Gori, J. Shelton,
JHEP 1502 (2015) 157 [arXiv: 1412.0018 [hep-ph]].
[24] Prospects for Electroweakino Discovery at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider,
S. Gori, S. Jung, L.T. Wang, J.D. Wells,
JHEP 1412 (2014) 108 [arXiv: 1410.6287 [hep-ph]].
[23] Supersymmetric custodial Higgs triplets and the breaking of universality,
M. Garcia, S. Gori, M. Quiros, R. Vega, R. Vega-Morales, T-T. Yu,
Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 1, 015016 [arXiv: 1409.5737 [hep-ph]].
[22] Neutrino Trident Production: A Powerful Probe of New Physics with Neutrino Beams,
W. Altmannshofer, S. Gori, M. Pospelov, I. Yavin,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (2014) 091801 [arXiv: 1406.2332 [hep-ph]].
[21] Dressing Lµ - Lτ in Color,
W. Altmannshofer, S. Gori, M. Pospelov, I. Yavin,
Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 095033 [arXiv: 1403.1269 [hep-ph]].
[20] Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson,
D. Curtin, R. Essig, S. Gori, P. Jaiswal, A. Katz, T. Liu, Z. Liu, D. McKeen, J. Shelton,
M. Strassler, Z. Surujon, B. Tweedie, Y. Zhong,
Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 075004 [arXiv: 1312.4992 [hep-ph]].
[19] Cornering Electroweakinos at the LHC,
S. Gori, S. Jung, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1310 (2013) 191 [arXiv: 1307.5952 [hep-ph]].
[18] Precision Higgs Measurements: Constraints from New Oblique Corrections,
S. Gori, I. Low,
JHEP 1309 (2013) 151 [arXiv: 1307.0496 [hep-ph]].
[17] Light Stops, Light Staus and the 125 GeV Higgs,
M. Carena, S. Gori, N.R. Shah, C.E.M. Wagner, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1308 (2013) 087 [arXiv: 1303.4414 [hep-ph]].
[16] Vacuum Stability and Higgs Diphoton Decays in the MSSM,
M. Carena, S. Gori, I. Low, N.R. Shah, C.E.M. Wagner,
JHEP 1302 (2013) 114 [arXiv: 1211.6136 [hep-ph]].
[15] A Minimal Flavor Violating 2HDM at the LHC,
W. Altmannshofer, S. Gori, G.D. Kribs,
Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 115009 [arXiv: 1210.2465 [hep-ph]].
[14] Higgs Couplings and Precision Electroweak Data,
B. Batell, S. Gori, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1301 (2013) 139 [arXiv: 1209.6382 [hep-ph]].
[13] Light Stau Phenomenology and the Higgs gamma-gamma Rate,
M. Carena, S. Gori, N.R. Shah, C.E.M. Wagner, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1207 (2012) 175 [arXiv: 1205.5842 [hep-ph]].
[12] LHC Discovery Potential for Non-Standard Higgs Bosons in the 3b Channel,
M. Carena, S. Gori, A. Juste, A. Menon, C.E.M. Wagner, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1207 (2012) 091 [arXiv: 1203.1041 [hep-ph]].
[11] Exploring the Higgs Portal with 10/fb at the LHC,
B. Batell, S. Gori, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1206 (2012) 172 [arXiv: 1112.5180 [hep-ph]].
[10] A 125 GeV SM-like Higgs in the MSSM and the gamma-gamma Rate,
M. Carena, S. Gori, N.R. Shah, C.E.M. Wagner,
JHEP 1203 (2012) 014 [arXiv: 1112.3336 [hep-ph]].
[9] Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs and Flavor Physics
W. Altmannshofer, M. Carena, S. Gori, A. de la Puente,
Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 095027 [arXiv: 1107.3814 [hep-ph]].
[8] W plus two Jets from a Quasi-Inert Higgs Doublet,
Q.H. Cao, M. Carena, S. Gori, A. Menon, P. Schwaller, C.E.M. Wagner, L.T. Wang,
JHEP 1108 (2011) 002 [arXiv: 1104.4776 [hep-ph]].
[7] Search for Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascade Decays and Neutralino Dark Matter,
S. Gori, P. Schwaller, C.E.M. Wagner,
Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 115022 [arXiv: 1103.4138 [hep-ph]].
[6] Higgs-mediated FCNCs: Natural Flavor Conservation vs. Minimal Flavor Violation,
A.J. Buras, M.V. Carlucci, S. Gori, G. Isidori,
JHEP 1010 (2010) 009 [arXiv: 1005.5310 [hep-ph]].
[5] Solving the µ Problem with a Heavy Higgs Boson,
R. Franceschini, S. Gori,
JHEP 1105 (2011) 084 [arXiv: 1005.1070 [hep-ph]].
[4] Anatomy and Phenomenology of FCNC and CPV Effects in SUSY Theories,
W. Altmannshofer, A.J. Buras, S. Gori, P. Paradisi, D.M. Straub,
Nucl. Phys. B 830 (2010) 17 [arXiv: 0909.1333 [hep-ph]].
[3] The Impact of Kaluza Klein Fermions on Standard Model Fermion Couplings in a RS Model with
Custodial Protection,
A.J. Buras, B. Duling, S. Gori,
JHEP 0909 (2009) 076 [arXiv: 0905.2318 [hep-ph]].
[2] Rare K and B Decays in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection,
M. Blanke, A.J. Buras, B. Duling, K. Gemmler, S. Gori,
JHEP 0903 (2009) 108 [arXiv: 0812.3803 [hep-ph]].
[1] ∆F = 2 Observables and Fine - Tuning in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection,
M. Blanke, A.J. Buras, B. Duling, S. Gori, A. Weiler,
JHEP 0903 (2009) 001 [arXiv: 0809.1073 [hep-ph]].
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND REPORTS
[7] Physics at a 100 TeV pp collider: beyond the Standard Model phenomena,
T. Golling, et.al.,
arXiv: 1606.00947 [hep-ph].
[6] Exploration of Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the ILC,
S. Gori,
DPF 2015 Proceedings, arXiv: 1511.00405 [hep-ph].
[5] A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case,
S. Alekhin, et.al.,
arXiv: 1504.04855 [hep-ph].
[4] Higgs Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Planning Study,
S. Dawson, et.al.,
arXiv: 1310.8361 [hep-ph].
[3] Project X: Physics Opportunities,
A. Kronfeld (ed.), R.S. Tschirhart (ed.), U. Al-Binni, et.al.,
arXiv: 1306.5009 [hep-ex].
[2] Predictions of Warped Extra Dimensions for Flavor Phenomenology,
S. Gori,
AIP.Conf.Proc. 1200 (2010) 635-638 [arXiv: 0909.3042 [hep-ph]].
[1] Patterns of Flavor Violation in a Warped Extra Dimensional Model with Custodial Protection,
S. Gori,
J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 171 (2009) 012062 [arXiv: 0901.4704 [hep-ph]].
INVITED SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
2016
• Signatures of Flavorful Higgs Bosons,
Topic of the week seminar, Fermilab, August 16, 2016
• An exotic Higgs to probe New Physics,
Seminar given at UC Santa Cruz, February 29, 2016
• A flavorful Higgs,
Seminar given at UT Austin, March 8, 2016
Seminar given at SLAC, Menlo Park, January 27, 2016
2015
• A flavorful Higgs,
Seminar given at LBL Berkeley, December 2, 2015
Seminar given at New York University, New York, November 11, 2015
• The Higgs as a portal to New Physics,
Colloquium given at York University, Toronto, October 6, 2015
• Higgs and flavor and the LHC,
Seminar given at the Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, September 25, 2015
Seminar given at the Scuola Normale of Pisa, Pisa, September 23, 2015
• Prospects for Electroweakino discovery at the 100TeV hadron collider,
Seminar for "Very High Energy pp Collider Physics Studies" (VLHC), April 24, 2015
• The Higgs as a portal to New Fundamental Physics,
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium given at MIT, Boston, April 6, 2015
Colloquium given at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, April 1, 2015
Colloquium given at SLAC, Menlo Park, March 4, 2015
Colloquium given at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 16, 2015
• Discovering new particles after the Higgs,
Colloquium given at Guelph University, Guelph, March 30, 2015
Colloquium given at Carleton University, Ottawa, March 17, 2015
Colloquium given at Northeastern University, Boston, February 23, 2015
Colloquium given at UCLA, Los Angeles, February 20, 2015
Colloquium given at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, February 5, 2015
• Hunting weakly interacting new particles,
Seminar given at the Northeastern University, Boston, February 23, 2015
Seminar given at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, February 6, 2015
• New Strategies for Higgs Physics,
Seminar given at Boston University, Boston, February 9, 2015
2014
• Looking for Dark forces with multi-leptons,
Seminar given at Rutgers University, November 11, 2014
• Neutrino trident as probe of new forces,
Seminar given at uBooNE Astro-Particle Exotica meeting, Fermilab, November 6, 2014
• Multileptons from a dark force,
Seminar given at Johns Hopkins University, September 16, 2014
• High and low energy probes of light Z’ bosons,
Seminar given at SLAC, Menlo Park, May 7, 2014
• High and low energy probes of light Z’ bosons,
Seminar given at UC Santa Cruz, May 5, 2014
• High and low energy probes of light Z’ bosons,
Seminar given at UC Davis, April 30, 2014
• New Physics test for new (and old) oblique corrections,
Seminar given at University of Oregon, February 7, 2014
• Beyond the Higgs discovery,
Colloquium given at University of Oregon, February 6, 2014
• Beyond the Higgs discovery,
Colloquium given at University of Cincinnati, January 30, 2014
2013
• Almost invisible electroweakinos,
HET Brown Bag Series Seminar given at University of Michigan, December 4, 2013
• Testing New Physics scales through the Higgs boson,
Seminar given at the “University of D0”, Fermilab, July 18, 2013
• Higgs couplings and electroweak precision data,
Seminar given at UC Santa Cruz, May 14, 2013
• Higgs couplings and electroweak precision data,
Seminar given at UC Berkeley, April 22, 2013
• A metastable vacuum and the Higgs to diphoton rate,
Seminar given at University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 5, 2013
• Higgs and light sleptons,
Seminar given at Southern Methodist University, February 25, 2013
• Vacuum structure and the Higgs to di-photon rate,
Seminar given at UC Irvine, February 20, 2013
• Higgs and light sleptons,
Seminar given at Texas A & M University, February 7, 2013
2012
• Light sleptons, Higgs phenomenology and the vacuum,
Seminar given at Perimeter Institute, December 7, 2012
• Light sleptons, Higgs phenomenology and the vacuum,
Seminar given at Northwestern University, December 3, 2012
• Light sleptons, Higgs phenomenology and the vacuum of our universe,
Seminar given at MIT, November 26, 2012
• Supersymmetric Higgs bosons at the LHC,
Seminar given at SLAC, October 3, 2012
• Higgs signals in a Minimal Flavor Violating 2HDM,
Seminar given at UC Santa Cruz, October 1, 2012
• Exploring the Higgs portal with the first LHC data,
Seminar given at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, June 8, 2012
• Exploring the Higgs portal with the first LHC data,
Seminar given at Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne, June 5, 2012
• Exotic scalars and the SM Higgs boson,
Seminar given at Yale University, May 1, 2012
• Exploring the Higgs portal with the first 10/fb LHC data,
Seminar given at Argonne National Laboratory, March 6, 2012
• Exploring the Higgs portal with 10/fb at the LHC,
Seminar given at University of Illinois at Chicago, January 30, 2012
2011
• Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM at the LHC,
Seminar given at Cornell University, November 16, 2011
• Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs and Flavor Physics,
Seminar given at University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 11, 2011
• Looking for New Physics in the Bs,d → µ+ µ− Decays,
Seminar given at CDF B physics group, Fermilab, May 26, 2011
• Flavor transitions in two Higgs doublet models,
Seminar given at Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 18, 2011
• Higgs mediated flavor changing neutral currents,
Seminar given at Michigan State University, March 1, 2011
• FCNCs in two Higgs doublet models,
Seminar given at Fermilab, January 27, 2011
2009
• Warped Extra Dimensions or Susy? How to Discriminate?,
Seminar given at Argonne National Laboratory, November 24, 2009
• A Randall-Sundrum Model testable by LHC,
Seminar given at University of Chicago, November 23, 2009
• Randall-Sundrum vs Susy: Theory & Phenomenology,
Seminar given at Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, Barcelona, November 2, 2009
• A Randall-Sundrum Model in the Reach of LHC,
Seminar given at IAS, June 12, 2009
2007
• Supersymmetry without a Light Higgs Boson,
Seminar given at Technical University of Munich, August 9, 2007
• Supersymmetry without a Light Higgs Boson,
Seminar given at Max Planck Institute, Munich, July 12, 2007
INVITED TALKS AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2016
• Exotic Higgs(es) at the LHC,
Talk given at the Bethe Forum 2016, Model building in the 13 TeV era,
Bonn, Germany, May 30, 2016
• Searches for an extended Higgs sector at the LHC,
Talk given at the Higgs tasting workshop 2016, Benasque, Spain, May 20, 2016
• Proton beam dump experiments & inelastic dark matter,
Talk given at the Dark sectors workshop 2016, SLAC, April 28, 2016
• Constraints on SUSY from low energy experiments,
Seminar given at the KITP program "Experimental Challenges for the LHC Run II",
Santa Barbara, April 25, 2016
• Exotic Higgs signals,
Seminar given at the KITP program "Experimental Challenges for the LHC Run II",
Santa Barbara, April 20, 2016
• SeaQuest & proton beam dump experiments,
Talk given at the NEXT meeting, SLAC, January 29, 2016
2015
• Precision Higgs studies at the linear collider,
Plenary Talk given at the LCWS Linear collider workshop, Whistler, November 2, 2015
• What has the Higgs taught us?,
Plenary talk given at LHCP 2015 conference, S.Petersburg, September 1, 2015
• Exploration of BSM Physics at the ILC,
Talk given at DPF 2015, Ann Arbor, August 4, 2015
• Status and prospects for Higgs exotic decays,
Talk given at the 10th Workshop of the LHCHXSWG, CERN, July 16, 2015
• Looking for dark forces at low and high energy experiments,
Talk given at the MIAPP workshop:
“Anticipating 14 TeV Insights into Matter from the LHC and Beyond”, Munich, July 8, 2015
• Mini-Review: Physics with Electroweakinos,
Talk given at Pheno 2015, Pittsburgh, May 5, 2015
• Higgs exotic decays at high energy colliders,
Talk given at the Aspen 2015 Winter conference:
“Exploring the Physics Frontier with Circular Colliders”, Aspen, January 29, 2015
2014
• Dark forces and Higgs exotic decays,
Talk given at the BSM Higgs workshop @ LPC, Fermilab, November 5, 2014
• Exotic Higgs,
Talk given for the BSM Higgs cross section working group kick-off meeting,
October 7, 2014
• Higgs exotic decays,
Talk given at the 2nd CFHEP symposium on circular collider physics,
Beijing, August 11, 2014
• Higgs theory review,
Talk given at 2014 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) congress,
Sudbury, June 17, 2014
• Review on Higgs exotic decays,
Talk given at LHCP conference, New York City, June 2, 2014
• Role of precision physics in constraining a BSM Higgs sector,
Talk given at “After the discovery: hunting for a non-Standard Higgs sector” workshop,
Benasque, April 10, 2014
2013
• Electroweakinos at the LHC,
Talk given at TRIUMF theory workshop on Cosmology at colliders, December 9, 2013
• Cornering electroweakinos at the LHC,
Talk given at “Susy at the near energy frontier” workshop, Fermilab, November 11, 2013
• Susy Higgs bosons,
Talk given at “Higgs couplings 2013” workshop, Freiburg, October 16, 2013
• Loop induced Higgs couplings as a portal to New Physics,
Talk given at “LHC-the first part of the journey” conference,
KITP, S.Barbara, July 8, 2013
• Constraint on new particle masses and couplings from Higgs measurements,
Talk given at “Snowmass energy frontier” workshop, Seattle, June 30, 2013
• Light staus, vacuum stability and the Higgs di-photon rate,
Talk given at “The first three years of the LHC” workshop,
MITP, Mainz, March 19, 2013
2012
• The Higgs to di-photon rate as a probe of supersymmetry,
Talk given at “Understanding the TeV Scale Through LHC Data, Dark Matter,
and Other Experiments” workshop, GGI, Florence, November 6, 2012
• Kaon rare decays in the warped extra dimensional model,
Talk given at “Project X” workshop, Kaon working group, Fermilab, June 19, 2012
2010
• Higgs mediated flavor changing neutral currents,
Talk given at “Euroflavor ’10”, Munich, September 8, 2010
2009
• Probing Randall-Sundrum Model through FCNC,
Talk given at “Ringberg Workshop on New Physics, Flavors and Jets”,
Ringberg Castle, April 28, 2009
• Patterns of Flavor Violation in a Warped Extra Dimensional Model
with Custodial Protection,
Talk given at “HEPTOOLS Meeting”, Lisbon, March 12, 2009
TALKS AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2012
• Higgs di-photon rate as an indirect probe of susy scalars,
Talk given at Planck ’12, Warsaw, May 30, 2012
• The Higgs to gamma-gamma rate as a probe of Susy,
Talk given at Pheno ’12, University of Pittsburgh, May 8, 2012
• Probing the MSSM through the Higgs to gamma-gamma rate,
Talk given at “Hot Topics at Colliders: Exploring Hints of New Physics” workshop,
Princeton University, April 27, 2012
• Exotic scalars and the Higgs to gamma-gamma rate,
Talk given at “MCTP Spring Symposium on Higgs Boson Physics”,
University of Michigan, April 16, 2012
2011
• The µ problem & a non standard Higgs spectrum,
Talk given at Susy ’11, Fermilab, August 28, 2011
• Search for Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascade Decays & Neutralino Dark Matter,
Talk given at “Physics at the LHC 2011” conference, Perugia, June 10, 2011
• The search for Higgs bosons in Susy decay chains,
Talk given at Pheno ’11, Madison, May 10, 2011
2010
• Flavor Changing neutral currents in two Higgs doublet models,
Talk given at Susy ’10, Bonn, August 24, 2010
2009
• Predictions of Warped Extra Dimensions for Flavor Phenomenology,
Talk given at Susy ’09, Boston, June 7, 2009
• Predictions for Bs mixing phase in Susy Flavor Models,
Talk given at Planck ’09, Padova, May 29, 2009
• Patterns of Flavor Violation in Warped Extra Dimensions,
Talk given at “5th Workshop in Particle Physics and Cosmology”,
Warsaw, February 4, 2009
2008
• Rare K and B Decays in a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection,
Talk given at Discrete ’08, Valencia, December 11, 2008
ATTENDED CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
2016
• 38th international conference on high energy physics (ICHEP 2016),
Chicago, August 3 - 10, 2016
• Bethe Forum 2016, "Model building in the 13 TeV era",
Bonn, Germany, May 30 - June 3, 2016
• Higgs tasting workshop 2016,
Benasque, Spain, May 16 - 20, 2016
• KITP program "Experimental Challenges for the LHC Run II",
Santa Barbara, April 11 - May 6, 2016
• Dark sectors workshop 2016,
SLAC, April 28 - 30, 2016
2015
• LCWS Linear collider workshop,
Whistler, November 2 - 6, 2015
• GGI workshop: “Gearing up for LHC13”,
Florence, September 14 - 27, 2015
• LHCP 2015 conference,
S.Petersburg, August 31 - September 5, 2015
• DPF 2015 meeting,
Ann Arbor, August 4 - 8, 2015
• Nu@ Fermilab workshop,
Fermilab, July 21 - 25, 2015
• 10th general assembly meeting of the LHC HCSWG,
CERN, July 15 - 17, 2015
• MIAPP workshop: “Anticipating 14 TeV Insights into Matter from the LHC and Beyond”,
Munich, June 26 - July 10, 2015
• Higgs exotic decay @ Fermilab workshop,
Fermilab, May 21 - 22, 2015
• Phenomenology 2015 Symposium,
Pittsburgh, May 4 - 6, 2015
• The CP Nature of the Higgs Boson workshop, UMASS,
Amherst, May 1 - 3, 2015
• Aspen 2015 Winter conference:“Exploring the Physics Frontier with Circular Colliders”,
Aspen, January 26 - February 1, 2015
2014
• BSM Higgs workshop @ LPC,
Fermilab, November 3 - 5, 2014
• 2nd CFHEP symposium on circular collider physics,
Beijing, August 11 - 15, 2014
• “Connecting Flavor Physics with Naturalness: from Theory to Experiment” program,
Aspen Center for Physics, June 22 - July 13, 2014
• 2014 Canadian Association of Physicists Congress,
Sudbury, June 16 - 20, 2014
• Large hadron collider physics (LHCP) conference,
New York City, June 2 - 7, 2014
• “After the discovery: hunting for a non-Standard Higgs sector” workshop,
Benasque, April 7 - 17, 2014
2013
• “Cosmology at colliders” workshop,
TRIUMF, December 9 - 11, 2013
• “Susy at the near energy frontier” workshop,
Fermilab, November 11 - 14, 2013
• “Higgs couplings 2013” workshop,
Freiburg, October 14 - 16, 2013
• “LHC - the first part of the journey” conference,
KITP, S.Barbara, July 8 - 12, 2013
• “Snowmass energy frontier” workshop,
University of Washington at Seattle, June 30 - July 3, 2013
• “Exploring TeV scale new Physics with LHC data”, KITP program,
KITP, S.Barbara, April 29 - May 19, 2013
• Winter workshop on electric-dipole-moments : EDMs13,
Fermilab, February 13 - 15, 2013
2012
• “Understanding the TeV Scale Through LHC Data, Dark Matter,
and Other Experiments” workshop,
GGI, Florence, October 22 - November 9, 2012
• Community Planning Meeting (CPM2012),
Fermilab, October 11 - 13, 2012
• “New Particle Physics at the LHC and Its Connection to Dark Matter” program,
Aspen, August 26 - September 9, 2012
• Project X Physics Study,
Fermilab, June 14 - 23, 2012
• Planck 2012,
Warsaw, May 28 - June 1, 2012
• “The Next Stretch of the Higgs Magnificent Mile” workshop,
Chicago, May 14 - 16, 2012
• Phenomenology 2012 Symposium,
Pittsburgh, May 7 - 9, 2012
• Chicago 2012 Workshop on LHC physics,
Chicago, May 2 - 4, 2012
• “Hot Topics at Colliders: Exploring Hints for New Physics” workshop,
Princeton, April 27 - 29, 2012
• MCTP Spring Symposium on Higgs Boson Physics,
University of Michigan, April 16 - 20, 2012
2011
• Brookhaven Forum 2011,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, October, 19 - 21, 2011
• Susy 2011,
Fermilab, August 28 - September 2, 2011
• “Physics at the LHC 2011” conference,
Perugia, Italy, June 6 - 11, 2011
• Phenomenology 2011 Symposium,
Madison, May 9 - 11, 2011
2010
• EuroFlavor 2010,
Munich, September 8 - 10, 2010
• Susy 2010,
Bonn, August 23 - 28, 2010
• “Indirect Searches for New Physics at the time of LHC” program,
GGI, Florence, March 15 - 25, 2010
2009
• “Physics at Colliders on the eve of the LHC” summer school,
Turin, June 29 - July 3, 2009
• Susy 2009,
Boston, June 5 - 10, 2009
• Planck 2009,
Padova, May 25 - 29, 2009
• “Ringberg Workshop on New Physics, Flavors and Jets”,
Ringberg Castle, April 26 - May 1, 2009
• HEPTOOLS Midterm Meeting,
Lisbon, March 9 - 12, 2009
• 5th Workshop in Particle Physics and Cosmology,
Warsaw, February 4 - 7, 2009
2008
• “Discrete ’08”, Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries,
Valencia, December 11 - 16, 2008
• PSI Zuoz Summer School: “New Ideas in Particle Physics”,
Zuoz, July 13 - 19, 2008
• Planck 2008,
Barcelona, May 19 - 23, 2008
2007
• 2nd Workshop on Flavor Dynamics,
Albufeira, Portugal, November 3 - 10, 2007
2006
• Mid Term Meeting: “The quest for unification: theory confronts experiment”
Pisa, November 21 - 24, 2006
TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE
• Supervised the following PhD students:
– Douglas Tuckler. March 2016 - Now
• Co-supervised the following PhD and master students:
– Roberto Vega Morales (2012). Now Postdoc at the University of Granada;
– Tien-Tien Yu (2012). Now Postdoc at CERN.
– Emmanuel Stamou (2010). Now Postdoc at Weizmann Institute;
• “Particle Physics I” Course, PHYS8015, Spring Semester 2016, McMicken college of Arts and
Sciences, Physics Department, University of Cincinnati.
• Summer schools:
– One special lecture on “Exotic Higgs Decays" at the Fermilab-CERN Hadron Collider
Physics Summer School, Fermilab, August 11 - 20, 2016.
– Course of three lectures (90 minutes per lecture) on the Standard Model at the 2016 TriInstitute Summer School on Elementary Particles, TRIUMF, June 20 - July 1, 2016.
– Course of three lectures (75 minutes per lecture) on “Flavour Physics and CP violation” at
the 2015 CERN-JINR European School of High Energy Physics, Bansko, September 2-15,
2015.
• Developed and co-taught the “Standard Model” course for the Perimeter Scholars International
(PSI) master students at Perimeter Institute, Winter 2015.
• Teaching Assistant for
– “Quantum Field Theory II”, lecture by Prof. T. Feldmann at the Technical University of
Munich, Winter term 2009
– “Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics II”, lecture by Prof. A. J. Buras at the Technical
University of Munich, Winter term 2008
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Convener:
– Higgs session of the 38th International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP), Chicago,
August 3-10, 2016.
– Higgs Exotic Decays (WG3) subgroup of the LHC Higgs cross section working group
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/LHCHXSWG3.
– Higgs session of the Chicago 2012 Workshop “LHC physics in the Higgs era”, Chicago,
November 12 - 14, 2012.
• Member of the Exotic Higgs decay working group http://exotichiggs.physics.sunysb.edu
• Outreach:
– Visit and talk ”Particle physics: a journey to the foundations of nature” at the McAuley
High School, Cincinnati, May 11, 2016.
– “Saturday Physics Experiences” at the University of Cincinnati: program for local high
school students, April 9, 2016.
– Panelist at the closing Panel “Physics and the Future” together with Immanuel Bloch, Sara
Seager and Patrick Brady, Convergence conference, Perimeter Institute, June 24, 2015.
– Panelist at the discussion of the award-winning documentary “Particle Fever” about the
hunt for the Higgs boson, International Woman day, Laurier University, Waterloo, March
8, 2015.
– Participation to “mentoring nights” with women interested in pursuing career in physics,
University of Waterloo, Winter 2014.
• Organizer:
– “Exotic Higgs Decays" meeting, SLAC, November 7 - 8, 2016.
– “The LHC Awakens: A New Energy Frontier” summer Aspen workshop, Aspen, August 14
- September 18, 2016.
– 1st “PIKIO (Particle physics in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio)” meeting, Cincinnati,
February 26, 2016.
– “Higgs exotic decays @ Fermilab” meeting, Fermilab, May 21-22, 2015.
– “The CP nature of the Higgs boson” workshop, UMass Amherst, May 1-3, 2015.
– Journal Club at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2014-2015.
– Theory Seminars at the physics department of the University of Chicago, 2011-2012.
• Referee for
– Nuclear Physics B, 2013-present
– Physics Letters B, 2012-present
– European Physics Journal C, 2012-present
– Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011-present
LANGUAGES
Italian:
mother tongue
English:
fluent
German:
intermediate
French:
basic
REFERENCES
• Prof. Riccardo Barbieri (r.barbieri@sns.it) Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Tel. +39 050
509243
• Prof. Andrzej Jerzy Buras (andrzej.buras@ph.tum.de) Technical University of Munich, Tel.
+49 89 289 10550
• Prof. Marcela Carena (carena@fnal.gov) Fermilab National Laboratory & The University of
Chicago, Tel. +1 630 840 4593
• Prof. Graham D. Kribs (kribs@uoregon.edu) University of Oregon, Tel. +1 541 346 4853
• Prof. Ian Low (ilow@northwestern.edu) Argonne National Laboratory & Northwestern University, Tel. +1 805 893 6369
• Prof. Howard E. Haber (haber@scipp.ucsc.edu) UC Santa Cruz, Tel. +1 831 459 4228
• Prof. Michael Peskin (mpeskin@slac.stanford.edu) SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University, Tel. +1 650 926 3250
• Prof. Maxim Pospelov (pospelov@uvic.ca) University of Victoria & Perimeter Institute, Tel.
+1 250- 721 7734 & +1 519 569 7600-x7631
• Prof. Philip Schuster (schuster@slac.stanford.edu) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Tel. +1 650 926 5180
• Prof. Carlos E.M. Wagner (cwagner@hep.anl.gov) Argonne National Laboratory & The University of Chicago, Tel. +1 630 252 3759
• Prof. Lian-Tao Wang (liantaow@uchicago.edu) The University of Chicago, Tel. +1 773 702
8048
• Prof. Itay Yavin (iyavin@perimeterinstitute.ca) McMaster University & Perimeter Institute,
Tel. +1 905 525 9140-x23178 & 1 519 569 7600-x8632
• Prof. Jure Zupan (zupanje@ucmail.uc.edu) University of Cincinnati, Tel. +1 513 556 5238