CMS Guides:
Simone Gennai
I have studied Physics at University in Pisa and since then I have been working within the CMS Collaboration. I obtained my Ph.D. at Scuola Normale in 2004 studying the Higgs boson and extra dimensions. I have been fellow at CERN for three years and I am permanent researcher at INFN Milano-Bicocca since 2011.
I have been involved in tau lepton reconstruction, H into tautau analyses and I have spent several years within the CMS Trigger studies group. From 2016 to 2020 I have been one of the two trigger coordinators and presently I am the Trigger officer for the Physics coordination.
Recently I have joined the R&D project for the Phase-2 CMS Inner tracker pixel detectors, working on test beam data analysis and simulation studies.
Sonia Natale
Sonia studied Physics at the University of Rome « La Sapienza » and is CERN based since her Bachelor’s Degree. She spent one year at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and then she moved to the University of Geneva - DPNC, obtaining her PhD in Particle Physics.
She is a physics researcher, and is an expert in experimental astro-particle physics, silicon detectors and related laser devices. She contributed to the construction and commissioning of the AMS-02 experiment on the NASA International Space Station during her research activity at CERN (UniGe, RWTH, MIT).
She is also a scientific communication speaker involved in several CERN public outreach events and CERN focused programmes (National and International Teachers Training Programmes, National and International Masterclasses, Laboratory sessions as S’Cool Lab). She is a member of several juries and selection committees for Physics competitions for students (CERN BL4S, SYPT, IYPT) and for teachers (CERN « I vostri successi »). Currently involved in the organisation of the first Science and Communication Hackathon event at CERN being part of the organisation Committee.
CMS virtual technical experts:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
Zoltan and Noemi, physicists, PhD in particle physics
During the last 20 years they have been working for Hardware Muon Barrel Alignment System and Fiber Optical Sensing System at CMS
Their big hobby has been the CMS Virtual visits since the beginning.
