I am an experimental physicist active in high-energy physics. My main scientific interests are data analysis, statistical methods applied to physics and software development for scientific applications. I am Full Professor of Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions at University of Naples Federico II, Department of Physics Ettore Pancini, and I am Director of INFN Naples Unit from July 2019 for four years.

Scientific interests

I work on the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. I have been leader of Naples group and I'm interested in top quark physics and in physics beyond the Standard Model.

I have been recently interested in the analysis of COVID-19 pandemic data.

I have been active on tests of the Standard Model and on the search for the Higgs boson. I have been CMS physics coordinator of the Italian community, convener of the single-top analysis group, member of the LHC top Working Group, and member of the CMS Statistics Committee.

Projects

I am member of the EU project Insights, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN network, and PI of the INFN Unit.

Past activities

I participated in the BaBar experiment at SLAC, and in the L3 experiment at CERN's LEP collider.

Courses

• Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data, Bachelor degree in Physics, Univ. of Naples Federico II
• Practical Statistics, CERN-JINR European School of High Energy Physics 2016, Skeikampen, Norway
• Statistical methods for data analysis, course valid for PhD in Physics, Naples, 2013.
• Physics at LHC, references for PhD in Physics, Naples, 2012.
• IN2P3 School of Statistics 2012, Autrance, France, 28 May-1 June 2012
• Statistical methods in LHC data analysis, CERN, 2009.
• Object Oriented programming course for Computing Science
• Computing Technology courses

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6471-5492