CMS Guides:
Lucia Silvestris
Lucia studied Physics at the Bari University, received her PhD in Physics at the Bari University in 1990, and since 1992 she works as senior researcher in the INFN section of Bari.
Lucia began her HEP research in the ALEPH Experiment with a PhD thesis, on the precision measurements of W and Z boson mass and the determination of the number of light neutrinos’ families. She took several responsibilities in the ALEPH Hadronic Calorimeter simulation and data acquisition; participate in the installation and running of the ALEPH upgraded Vertex Detector.
She joined CMS Collaboration in 1995 in the Tracker Group, taking care of the simulation, DAQ and test beam data taking and analysis. In the last 20 years Lucia has been working on the CMS software, Trigger and Physics, on the preparation for physics ensuring the physics performance of the offline software and the certification of the quality of data used for final analysis.
Lucia has covered, in the period 2005-2020, several leading roles like Offline Coordinator, Physics Performance & Dataset coordinator, Deputy Upgrade Coordinator and finally Run Coordinator during Run 2 data taking. At the time of the Higgs Boson discovery, Lucia had a leading role as coordinator of the CMS Physics Performance project.
In last years, Lucia has significant roles also at the INFN level like CMS Bari group leader, INFN-Bari principal investigator for AIDA FP7 European project as well as INFN-Bari principal investigator for the ReCaS project.
Finally, starting from January 2021, Lucia was elected representative of CMS Italy collaboration for a three-year term. In this capacity, she represents the Italian members collaborating on the CMS experiment in LHC. The Italian team includes ~350 members (scientists, and engineers) from 24 INFN section and universities and 2 INFN national labs, which constitutes about 13% of the international CMS collaboration.
She is also a scientific communication speaker involved in several INFN and CERN STEM outreach activities to encourage participation of young women in science.
“That Physics was my world I already knew in high school. But the great charm of the research in this area became really important when I have fully grasped the significance of today's challenges that is to study nature at the microscopic level to know it at the macroscopic level, trying to understand the origin and the evolution of the universe. The idea of discovering the existence of new and unknown dimensions of the universe it’s really appealing. But I also love physics because allows me to discover reality much more neighbours, which are those of the High Energy Physics laboratories and scientific communities in the world.”
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
