I graduated in 2003 at Università degli Studi di Pavia, with the thesis “Double β+ decay. An experiment proposal” (110/110 cum laude)

I got my PhD in 2008 at Università degli Studi di Pavia, with thesis "The fit of nuclear tracks in high precision spectroscopy experiments" 

RESEARCH SUMMARY

My research is conducted within the area of high energy physics at accelerators. At the beginning I worked on an anti-proton protone collider for the experiment PANDA (GSI, Germania) and now I work on an e+e- collider for the experiment BESIII (IHEP, R.P.C.). In both cases, the main research topic is the mass region around charmonium value.

My work has been dedicated to the R&D of gas based trackers, from the more traditional to the more innovative Micro Pattern Gas Detectors. I started with the Straw Tube Tracker of PANDA (FAIR-GSI), then I moved to the Cylindrical GEM Inner Tracker of BESIII (IHEP) and to the µ-RWELL of IDEA (FCC-ee/CepC). In parallel, I worked on many side-projects. My main area of research is software applied to detectors, but I also took part to detector experimental testing and data analysis.

Software Development

I performed both standalone and in-framework software implementation. I was a developer for pandaroot (PANDA) and fairroot (whole FAIR), I work now in cgemboss (BESIII) and key4Hep (FCC-ee/CepC) frameworks.

I contributed to software development for the Straw Tube central tracker of PANDA and its insertion in the global trkacking. I worked on track finding and track fitting. I participated in the simulation campaign which led to the selection of the STT as Central Tracker. The results were publishde in the STT TDR in 2012.

For BESIII, I develop software for the inner tracker CGEM-IT, which will replace the present one, a drift chamber. I took care of the routine for Quality Assurance of the data inside the framework, used to validate the experimental data taken by our cosmic ray stand. The setup consists of two out of the three final layers of the detector. I also performed data analysis, also with Machine Learning tecniques. I am one of the software coordinators in the CGEM-IT project. I implemented many interface classes and service classes to make the cosmic ray data available in the framework.

I contribut also to software development for one of the proposed detectors, IDEA, as spectrometer for the future e+e- accelerator of 100 km circumference (FCC-ee/CepC).

I am responsible for the simulation work package in INFN project uRANIA-V, which studies the usability of a µ-RWELL (MPGD) with a boron-coated inner surface as a neutron detector. I simulated in GEANT4 different geometries, to drive the detector design and better understand the experimental data.

I am one of the twho authors of the software PARSIFAL, for  triple-GEM digitization, i.e. for the simulation of the detector response to the passage of charged particles. The tool was recently extended to the simulation of a µ-RWELL.

Detector Testing and Construction

Even though software is my main field of action, I have also largely contributed to detector development and tests.

I took part in the testing of the materials for the construction of the CGEM–IT, I participated to various testbeams at CERN and MAMI (Mainz) for planar and cylindrical chambers.

I participated in the experimental tests of the various options of boron-coated µ-RWELL at the HOTNES (ENEA) where a quasi-thermal neutron source is available, by taking data, analysing and comparing them to simulations.

The µ-RWELL are candidate as pre-shower and muon detectors in IDEA. I partici pated in testbeams at CERN–SPS–H8.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 01/11/2022 – present, Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

• 01/11/2021 – 31/10/2022 Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

• 01/11/2019 – 31/10/2021 Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

• 26/06/2019 – 25/09/2019 Research Fellowship,, Università degli Studi di Torino, Physics Dept., Turin, Italy

• 27/06/2019 – 27/08/2019 Research Contract, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Physics and Geology Dept., Ferrara, Italy

• 31/03/2016 – 31/03/2019 Postdoc, IHEP-INFN Joint Fellowship, Institute of High Energy Physics, Div. of Exp. Physics, Beijing, P.R.C.

• 01/11/2014 – 31/10/2015 Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

• 16/04/2012 – 15/10/2013 Research Contract, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Pavia, Italy

• 04/01/2010 – 31/12/2011 Postdoc, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Pavia, Italy

• 06/05/2008 – 28/02/2009 Research Contract, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Chemistry Dept., Pavia, Italy

• 15/10/2007 – 15/12/2007 Research Contract, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Nucl. and Theor. Physics Dept., Pavia, Italy

• 01/10/2006 – 30/09/2007 Research Fellowship, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

• 2003 – 2006 PhD studies with PhD scholarship

• 01/04/2003 – 31/05/2003 Research Contract, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Nucl. and Theor. Physics Dept., Pavia, Italy 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITY ROLES

BESIII/CGEM-IT

• Co-coordinator of Software Group of CGEM–IT (since 2022)

• Co-convener of the BESIII Data Quality Group (since 2018)

• Responsible of CGEM–IT Data Quality for cgemBoss framework

• Member of the italian Principal Investigator assembly

URANIA/URANIA-V

• Coordinator of the work package on simulations for INFN project uRANIA–V

PANDA/FAIR

• Detector Expert of PANDA Straw Tube Tracker in software group (up to 2014)

• Responsible of GEANE track follower Interface to fairroot framework and WIKI documentation

• Responsible of the insertion of the STT code in the global tracking

FCC-EE/CEPC

• Responsible of the conversion of the output of IDEA standalone code to the EDM4Hep format

• Responsible of the bash script for the IDEA code installation on CERN stack

• Responsible for the simulations of single electrons in IDEA

OTHER

• Referee for NIM A and NIM A Proceedings

PUBLICATIONS

I co-authored more than 300 publications on international peer-reviewed journals, See:

• my InspireHEP page

• my Scopus page

• my ORCID page