Role
Research Director at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Florence.
Bio
Stefania De Curtis graduated in Physics from the University of Florence and earned her PhD from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in the field of elementary particles. She conducts research as a visiting scientist at the University of Geneva and CERN, and is a visiting professor at the University of Florence.
He is a research director at the INFN Section in Florence and has coordinated the theoretical group of the Florence section since 2005. He directed the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2019 to 2025.
Her research focuses on theoretical physics of fundamental interactions and high-energy particle physics . She has focused on scenarios beyond the Standard Model, dynamical symmetry breaking, compound Higgs models, and their potential manifestations in current and future particle accelerators.
In recent years, she has also become interested in composite dynamics in the early universe, particularly first-order electroweak phase transitions in composite Higgs models. In this context, she has studied the potential generation of gravitational wave signals observable by future interferometers.