CMS Guides:
Piero Giorgio Verdini
I became operational on March 15th in the HAL plant of Rome, Italy... Seriously, I am a bit of an old timer, having participated in three experiments at CERN (and two at SLAC). Right now I am running the Detector Control System and the Detector Safety System for the CMS Tracker, the largest semiconductor detector existing (200 m2 of instrumented Silicon), which likes to live at -25 C, so it does need a lot of care to prevent it from environmental damage. I was born in Rome but consider myself a Friulano since both my parents come from the Udine area. After several relocations due to my father's job, I ended up getting my degree in High Energy Physics at the University of Perugia, working on the UA4 experiment at the SPP(bar)S Collider. I came to CERN officially for the first time in June 1982 as a Summer Student. After UA4, I left for SLAC where I took part in the MAC experiment at PEP and subsequently in SLD at the SLC, but after a while the Pisa group of which I had become a member was called to participate in the construction of the ALEPH Silicon Vertex Detector, and so I was back to CERN again, never to leave for another laboratory again.
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
