Applications Physicist
Email:izoi@fnal.gov Office Location: WH11W
I am an Applications Physicist in High Energy Particle Physics at Fermilab and a collaborator on the CMS experimentat CERN. I started my physics studies in Florence (Italy), where I developed a strong interest in experimental particle physics and detector instrumentation. My first involvement with CMS dates back to my first internship at Fermilab in 2015.
During my bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD studies, I worked extensively on silicon detector R&D in the context of the CMS Phase-2 upgrade. My doctoral research at the University of Hamburg combined detector development and physics analysis, including R&D for the CMS Phase-2 Pixel Detector and a search for new heavy resonances decaying to VV and VH hadronic final states using jet substructure and multi-dimensional maximum likelihood techniques.
Following my PhD, I held a postdoctoral position at Fermilab. During this period, I worked on the Phase-2 Outer Tracker upgrade, testing prototypes in the laboratory and in test beams, and further developing calibration, validation, and quality-assurance procedures. I was also involved in R&D for Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors. In parallel, I continued my involvement in CMS physics analyses, including studies of vector boson scattering within an effective field theory framework.
As an Applications Physicist, my main role is to supervise the testing activities of the Outer Tracker modules during production. Fermilab is responsible for delivering approximately 2,500 strip–strip and pixel–strip silicon modules, each with distinct sensor and ASIC configurations. The qualification procedures involve multiple stages of testing and thermal cycling, performed by students and postdoctoral researchers. I remain involved in several additional efforts, including searches for new physics, Standard Model measurements, the development of a jet-based polarization tagger, and R&D activities targeting future collider experiments.