CMS Guides:
Davide Valsecchi
I'm a Particle Physics PhD student from Milano and I'm currently spending my PhD at CERN working on the optimization of the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) for Run3 and on CMS data analysis about Vector Boson Scattering. I'm part of CMS since 2016 and I have been working as a Technical Student at CERN before my PhD. I really enjoy making people discover details and curiosities about how CMS have been built and works: waiting for your questions!
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.
CMS virtual technical experts:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
