Caterina Vernieri
SLAC
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Caterina
Caterina Vernieri received her PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, in 2014 and then moved to Chicago for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She joined SLAC in 2018 as a Panofsky Fellow (Associate Scientist). Throughout this time, she has been devoted to studying the Higgs boson using data from the LHC. At SLAC, Caterina is working with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. She is responsible for the construction activities at SLAC of the new ATLAS Pixel Inner Tracker detector for the planned High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC. She is also co-convener of the group on Higgs boson properties in the current national study of the future of particle physics (Snowmass 2021).
Honors
2021 - DOE Early Career Award
2018 - Panofsky Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratoy, 11/2014 - 09/2018
Ph.D.
Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, 10/28/2014
Master's
Physics, University of Pisa, 9/25/2011
Bachelor's
Physics, University of Pisa, 7/25/2009
