Role
Research Associate at the Frascati National Laboratories of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Bio
Graduated in Physics at Sapienza University of Rome in 1971, she developed her career at the Frascati National Laboratories of the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) , also working at CERN in Geneva, at DESY in Hamburg and at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratories of which she was director from 2009 to 2012, the first woman to hold this leading role in global research in astroparticle physics in underground laboratories.
Specializing in particle and astroparticle physics , she has focused her studies on elementary particles and in particular neutrinos . She was among the protagonists of the Opera experiment , which was the first to directly measure neutrino oscillations at Gran Sasso. She is currently participating in the international Juno ( Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ) project in China, the first state-of-the-art experiment on neutrino physics to become operational.
Author of approximately 300 scientific publications and popular books, she has received the honor of Commander of Merit of the Italian Republic and has been awarded numerous prizes for her contributions to science and female leadership .