Simonetta Gentile

After graduating in Physics from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1974, he received a training fellowship from the same university from 1975 to 1981. In 1978, he graduated from the Postgraduate School in Physics, majoring in Nuclear Physics. From 1981 to 1982, he was a two-year fellow at CERN in the Experimental Physics Division.

In 1981, she was a tenured researcher at Sapienza University until 1988, when she became an associate professor at the University of Calabria. She returned to CERN as a visiting scientist in 1991-1992 and 1999-2000; from 1992 to 2010, she was an associate professor at Sapienza University, and from 2011 to 2021, a full professor of Experimental Physics. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Sapienza Foundation and of the National Commission for Scientific Qualification in Experimental Particle Physics.

The research focuses on elementary particle physics and the Standard Model, with studies on neutrinos, nucleon structure functions, Z and W bosons, and the search for the Higgs boson. It is part of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Throughout her career, she has participated in experiments on muon triggers and detectors, collaborated with Fermilab on charmed particles, and collaborated with NASA on AMS, installed on the International Space Station. She has authored over 1,600 scientific publications and continues her work in the ATLAS Collaboration and as an associate at INFN, maintaining responsibilities for the development of detectors for future accelerators.

Since 2023, he has been a member of the scientific council of the Sapienza Foundation, where he has organized the conferences "Challenges of the 21st Century: Artificial Intelligence at the Crossroads of Knowledge; Energy; Climate; Towards the Future in Space."