Davide Di Croce
Davide is an accelerator and particle physicist who currently works at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. His area of expertise is in machine learning.
During his time at CMS (CERN), which lasted eight years, he participated in various tasks, such as data analysis, operational tasks as a shifter, and detector development. While pursuing his doctoral degree, he was part of the team that made one of the first observations of the Higgs boson with the CMS. His research at CMS was centred around developing machine learning algorithms for particle and event identification.
Currently, Davide works an accelerator physicist, where he uses his expertise in machine learning to contribute to the development of future accelerators, such as the Future Circular Collider (FCC).
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:
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.
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
