Giulia Zanderighi
Born1974 (age 4950)
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Known forCollider Phenomenology
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsDurham University
Fermilab
CERN
University of Oxford
Max Planck Institute for Physics

Giulia Zanderighi is an Italian-born theoretical physicist born in 1974. She is the first woman director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics.

Education

Giulia Zanderighi received her undergraduate degree from the University of Milan in 1998 and her PhD in physics from the University of Pavia in 2001.

Career

Zanderighi held postdoctoral positions at Durham University from 2001 to 2003, Fermilab from 2003 to 2005, and CERN from 2005 to 2007.[1] In 2007, she became an assistant professor at the University of Oxford, and in 2014 she became a professor there.[2] In 2018, she was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics.[3] She leads the department of novel computational techniques in particle phenomenology and is the first woman director at the institute in its more than 100-year history.[4] She is an internationally recognized expert in collider phenomenology.[2]

References

  1. "Giulia Zanderighi". INSPIRE-HEP. June 25, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Prof. Dr. Giulia Zanderighi | Max Planck Institut für Physik". www.mpp.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  3. "Max-Planck-Institut für Physik heißt Giulia Zanderighi als neue Direktorin willkommen". www.mpp.mpg.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  4. Chalmers, Matthew (2020-11-16). "In pursuit of the possible". CERN Courier. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
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