Role
Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Oxford; Head of the Department of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford.
Bio
After graduating in Physics from the University of Pavia, Daniela Bortoletto continued her education with a PhD in Physics from Syracuse University, New York. In 1989, she joined Purdue University in Indiana, where in 2009 she was appointed E.M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics.
Since 2013, she has been a professor at the University of Oxford and has been the Director of the Department of Particle Physics since 2018. Her work in particle physics began at Cornell University, where from 1984 to 1989 she studied the b-quark with CLEO; from 1991 to 2010, she participated in the CDF experiment at Fermilab, contributing to the discovery of the top quark, the first measurements of its properties, and the search for the Higgs boson at the Tevatron.
In 1996, he began participating in the CMS experiment at CERN , playing a role in the construction of the pixel detector. After the detector was installed in 2008, he dedicated himself to the search for the Higgs boson with the LHC and participated in its discovery. From 2007 to 2013, he coordinated the activities of American universities at CMS for the detector upgrade.
In 2014, she joined ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) , where she continues to study the properties of the Higgs boson, the search for other scalar particles, and the development of silicon detectors. She is the editor of Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, the author of over 2,400 publications, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2024 for services to particle physics and gender equality.