CV

Appointments

• Directeur de Recherche 1e Classe (2023–present)
  CNRS/IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy, France

• Scientific Associate (2021–2022)
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Directeur de Recherche 2e Classe (2017–2023)
  CNRS/IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy, France

• Chargé de Recherche 1e Classe (2011–2017)
  CNRS/IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy, France

• Research Physicist Staff (2007–2011)
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Fellow (2005–2007)
  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (2003–2005)
  University of Milano, Milano, Italy

• Postgraduate Research Associate (1998–1999)
  Microelectronics Group, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Education

• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Accreditation to Supervise Research) (2016)
  University of Grenoble-Alpes, France
  Thesis: From ADC counts to the Higgs boson: photons for physics measurements with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC Run 1

• PhD in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (1999–2003) with highest honours
  University of Milano, Italy
  Thesis: Energy reconstruction and calibration algorithms for the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter

• MSc in Physics (1992–1998) with 110/110 cum laude, highest honours
  University of Torino, Italy
  Thesis: Measurement of the J/$\psi$ production at the CERN SPS with the NA50 experiment

Services and Coordination

Physics and Analysis Coordination

• FCC-PED Higgs Working Group (2026–present)
  Convener

• LHC Higgs Combination Group (2023–present)
  Convener (ATLAS)

• ATLAS Higgs Working Group (2020–2022)
  Convener, member of ATLAS Physics Coordination

• LHC Higgs Cross-Section Working Group 2 (Higgs Properties) (2018–2020)
  Convener (ATLAS)

• ATLAS Analysis Contact (2017–2020)
  $H\to\gamma\gamma$ couplings analysis

• ATLAS Higgs HGamma Working Group (2016–2017)
  Convener

• ATLAS Analysis Contact (2015–2016)
  Search for Higgs-like diphoton resonances analysis

• ATLAS EGamma Combined Performance group (2012–2014)
  Convener, member of ATLAS Physics Coordination

• ATLAS Photon Identification group (2011–2012)
  Convener

• ATLAS Standard Model Direct Photons group (2010–2011)
  Convener

Detector and Instrumentation Coordination

• ALLEGRO LAPP Team Leader (2022–present)
  Member of the DRD6 Collaboration Board

• FCC-PED LAPP Team Leader (2022–present)
  FCC France contact for LAPP

• ATLAS LAr Phase II Calibration Upgrade (2024–present & 2017–2020)
  Coordinator, member of the ATLAS LAr Phase II Upgrade Steering Group

• ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) Group Representative (2012–present)
  LAPP Team

• ATLAS LAr activities at LAPP (2017–2020)
  Coordinator

• ATLAS LAr Software and Data Preparation group (2011–2012)
  Convener, member of the ATLAS LAr Steering Group

• ATLAS LAr Calorimeter Electronic Calibration group (2005–2010)
  Convener

Committees and Governance

• ATLAS LAPP Team Leader (2023–present)
  Member of the ATLAS Collaboration Board

• Plenary European Committee for Future Accelerators (pECFA) (2020–present)
  Member

• Swiss National Science Foundation (2023–present)
  Grant reviewer

• Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation (REPRISE) (2016–present)
  Member

• Long baseline Neutrino Committee (LBNC) (2023–2025)
  Member, Fermilab, USA

• LHCC panel reviewing the Phase-2 CMS Barrel Calorimeter Technical Design Report (2017–2018)
  Member

• French CERN Fellowship Selection Committee (2015–2020)
  Member

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Higgs Conference (2022–2025)
  International Organizing Committee, member, chair in 2025

• Program Committee, Higgs 2022 Conference (2022)
  Pisa, Italy

• Organizing Committee, Higgs Hunting 2022 Workshop (2022)
  Paris, France

• Organizing Committee, Les Houches Workshop Physics at the TeV Colliders (2013–present)
  Les Houches, France

Funded Research and Project Leadership

• Alliance Campus Rhodanien ML-ALLEGRO (2026)
  Co-Leading Principal Investigator — Machine-learning-driven optimisation of the ALLEGRO calorimeter design for FCC-ee, with University of Geneva (Prof. T. Golling). Submitted 28/9/2026, decision pending. Requested amount: €15k.

• ANR ALLEGRETTO (ALLEGRO noble-liquid calorimeter prototype) (2026)
  LAPP node coordinator and Axis 2 (readout) lead — Collaborative project coordinated by Dr. N. Morange (IJCLab, France), five IN2P3 laboratories. Submitted 14/10/2026, decision pending. Requested amount: €562k consortium, €130k LAPP.

• ARIA — ALLEGRO Readout electrode Integrated ASICs (2025–2026)
  Principal Investigator — Regional R&D grant, USMB Annecy, €10k: custom PCB development and readout-ASIC integration in cryogenic conditions for the ALLEGRO calorimeter prototype.

• France-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (FJPPL) Project HEP_17 (2024–2025)
  Principal Investigator (French side) — A path toward the discovery of the Higgs-pair production in ATLAS. Bilateral CNRS/KEK-Osaka researcher mobility and networking grant, €2.5k/year.

• FJPPL Project HEP_18 (2025–present)
  Member — Beyond the SM physics probed with Higgs boson pair production in the ATLAS experiment (continuation of HEP_17).

• ANR PhotonPortal Project (2016–2021)
  Principal Investigator — French National Research Agency grant, €485k: proposal writing, consortium assembly, milestone tracking, team coordination.

Awards

• CNRS RIPEC Merit-based Bonus (2021–2025)
  Prime individuelle au mérite scientifique (Comp. 3)

• CNRS Scientific Excellence Prize (2014–2017)
  Prime d’Excellence Scientifique

Editorial Activities

• Peer reviewer for scientific journals (2011–present) Including Physics Letters B, Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of Instrumentation, The European Physical Journal C, Journal of High Energy Physics, and Computer Physics Communications

• Editorial Boards for internal review of ATLAS papers (2009–present) As of September 2026: 40 boards (23 as chair), including 26 papers (17 as chair) and 14 CONF notes (6 as chair)

• ATLAS Contact Editor (2011–present) As of September 2026: 14 papers and CONF notes, 4 PUB notes

• ATLAS Collaboration Publication Committee (2009–2011) Member. Author of the first version of the ATLAS publication LaTeX template.

Teaching

Approximately 180 contact hours of lectures at PhD and postgraduate level, 2014–2026.
See the full Teaching page for courses, seminars, and school organisation.

• Faculty, ECFA Winter Instrumentation School in Particle Physics (WISPP) (2027)
  CERN, Switzerland — 1.5-hour course on Calorimetry and energy measurement (inaugural edition, successor to ESIPAP)

• Visiting Professor, University of Torino (2026)
  16-hour course on Calorimetry in particle physics for PhD students

• Faculty, École thématique IN2P3 De la Physique au Détecteur 2025 (2025)
  Roscoff, France — 3-hour course on Calorimetry

• Faculty, École de Gif 2025 (2025)
  Strasbourg, France — 1.5-hour course on Technologies for future calorimeters

• Faculty, ESIPAP (2014–2023)
  Archamps, France — 15-hour course on Experimental Subatomic Physics (annually)

• Faculty, GraSPA Summer School (2014–2019)
  Annecy-le-Vieux, France — 2-hour lectures on LHC Experimental Physics (annually)

Student Supervision

Full list on the Students page.

8 PhD theses directly supervised (all defended or ongoing): Hind Taibi (2025–2028, ongoing) · Jeremy Couthures (defended 31/03/2026) · Luca Franco (defended 13/01/2022) · Saskia Falke (defended 17/09/2019) · Kirill Grevtsov (defended 04/07/2017) · Simone Mazza (defended 27/02/2017) · Zuzana Barnovska (defended 29/09/2015) · Maud Schwoerer (defended 27/09/2013)

External examiner for 11 PhD defences; member of 4 ongoing individual PhD thesis committees (CSI).