PI of cosmic-ray analyses with IceCube at UW–Madison
PI of cosmic-ray analyses in the US with HAWC at UW–Madison
Member of the cosmic-ray science task force in the SWGO collaboration
Organizer of the SuGAR 2024 - Symposium Searching for the Sources of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Senior Scientist
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Responsibilities include:
Cosmic-ray science analyses with IceCube
Coordination between M&O and science working groups in IceCube
Associate Scientist
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Responsibilities include:
Cosmic-ray science analyses with IceCube
Coordination between M&O and science working groups in IceCube
Organizer of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy (CRA) Workshop series.
Associate Researcher
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Assistant Researcher
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Responsibilities include:
Cosmic-ray science analyses with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Maintenance and Operations (M&O) with IceCube
Research Associate
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Responsibilities include:
Neutrino analyses and simulation production with AMANDA
Reimar Lüst Fellow
DESY - Zeuthen (Germany)
Responsibilities include:
Two-year Reimar Lüst stipend from Körber Stiftung, Hamburg, for post-doctoral
astrophysics research with the AMANDA neutrino telescope
Education
PhD Physics
Sapienza - Università di Roma (Italy)
Neutrino astrophysics with the NESTOR neutrino telescope project in Greece.
MSc Physics
Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Cosmic-ray physics at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
One-year fellowship by INFN for cosmic-ray research (1993-1994)
Skills & Hobbies
Hobbies
Biking
Hiking
Theater
Books
Awards
Reimar Lüst Stipendium
Körber Stiftung, Hamburg (Germany) ∙
May 1999
The fellowship was awarded to work as a postdoc at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen (Germany). The project was the study of cosmic-ray-induced neutrinos and muons collected by the AMANDA neutrino telescope at the geographic South Pole. I was also actively involved in constructing the AMANDA experiment in the antarctic summer of 2000 and deploying a control system for the so-called digitally controlled Analog Optical Modules (dAOM) in 2001. The dAOMs were a possible technology for the future of neutrino observatories, at the time.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) ∙
May 1993
The fellowship was awarded to perform research with the Large Volume Detector (LVD) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy) toward my master’s thesis (Tesi di Laurea). The work was the analysis of cosmic-ray events collected by the LVD experiment to investigate the muon events for different cosmic-ray mass composition models.