Employments

• Research Fellow in Particle Physics: February 2013 - December 2020
  University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy - Birmingham (United Kingdom)

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Particle Physics: January 2010 - December 2012
  University College Dublin, School of Physics - Dublin (Ireland)

• FLAVIAnet Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher: January 2008 - December 2009
  Albert Einstein Centre for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Bern (Switzerland)

• PRIN Fixed-Term Contract: April - December 2007
  University of Torino, Experimental Physics Department - Torino (Italy)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Physics: 28 March 2008
  University of Torino, Experimental Physics Department - Torino (Italy), February 2005 - March 2008
  Thesis: “Study of the $K^\pm \rightarrow \pi^\pm\gamma\gamma$ decay at the NA48/2 experiment”, thesis, slides

• Physics Degree Cum Laude: 23 July 2004
  University of Perugia, Physics Department - Perugia (Italy), September 1998 - July 2004
  Thesis: “Study of the $K_{S,L} \rightarrow \pi\mu\nu$ decay at the NA48/1 experiment”, thesis, slides

Professional Experience

• Representative of the Research Associates of the Particle Physics Group: University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), December 2017 - December 2020

• Internal Reviewer of the LHCb Publications: February 2013 - December 2020

• Co-Convener of the LHCb "Rare Decays" Working Group: January 2018 - December 2019, www

• Co-Convener of the LHCb "Electroweak Penguin Decays" Sub-Working Group: January - December 2017, www

• Co-Convener of the LHCb UK Student Meetings: May 2014 - April 2015

• Co-Convener of the LHC "W/Z cross-sections and distributions" Sub-Working Group: March 2012 - September 2017, www

• Co-Convener of the LHCb "Electroweak" Sub-Working Group: January 2012 - December 2013, www

• Co-Chair of the "Rare Decays" session of the II Workshop "UK Flavour": Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (United Kingdom), 4 - 6 September 2017, www

• Co-Convener of the "Forward Electroweak Physics, Including pA" Stream of the IV Workshop "Implications of LHCb Measurements and Future Prospects": CERN (Switzerland), 15 - 17 October 2014, www

• Chair (Member) of the UK CERN Fellowship Panel: January 2020 (2018) - December 2020, www

• Member of the LHCb "Physics Planning" Group: January 2018 - December 2019

• Member of the Programme Committee of the II Workshop "Towards the Ultimate Precision in Flavour Physics": Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology - Durham (United Kingdom), 2 - 4 April 2019, www

• Member of the Programme Committee of the I Workshop "Towards the Ultimate Precision in Flavour Physics": University of Warwick (United Kingdom), 16 - 18 April 2018, www

• Member of the Local Organising and Programme Committee of the XXV International Workshop "Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics": University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), 3 - 7 April 2017, www

• Member of the Local Organising Committee of the VI International Workshop "Chiral Dynamics": Albert Einstein Centre for Fundamental Physics (Switzerland), 6 - 10 July 2009, www

• Administrator of the Computing Resources of the NA48 and NA62 Experiments: CERN (Switzerland), January - December 2009

• Supervisor of the Central Data Recording System of the NA62 Experiment: CERN (Switzerland), June - September 2007, September - October 2008

• Online Monitoring and Hardware Maintenance of the NA48/2 and NA62 Experiments: CERN (Switzerland), 2003 - 2008

Grants and Awards

• IPPP Senior Experimental Fellowship "Towards the Ultimate Precision in Flavour Physics": 2017 - 2018, www
  Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology - Durham (United Kingdom)
  Co-Investigator for the area "B Decays to Rare Leptonic and Semileptonic Final States"

• Labex P2IO Programme “Émilie du Châtelet”: October 2016 - January 2017; October, December 2017, www
  Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire - Orsay (France)
  Visiting Researcher

• STFC Long Term Attachment: April 2014 - March 2015
  CERN - Geneva (Switzerland)

• INFN PhD Scholarship: September 2005 - March 2007, www
  University of Torino, Experimental Physics Department - Torino (Italy)
  Project: “Development and simulation of a silicon spectrometer for the P326 experiment that works with high rate particles beams”

• INFN Post-Graduate Scholarship: June 2005 (declined), www

• INFN Post-Graduate Scholarship: January - July 2005, www
  University of Perugia, Physics Department - Perugia (Italy)
  Project: “Study of systematic uncertainties in the measurement of the $K_S \rightarrow \pi\mu\nu$ branching ratio at the NA48/1 experiment”

• Summer Student Programme: July - August 2002
  CERN, Physics Department - Geneva (Switzerland)
  Project: “Study of the $K_S \rightarrow e^+e^-\gamma$ decay channel and its normalisation channel $K_S \rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0_D$”

Teaching

• Demonstrator of the Third Year Scientific Computing Undergraduate Laboratory: University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), October - December 2020

• Overview Lecture on "Experimental Tests of Lepton Flavour Universality" at SLAC Summer Institute: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - Menlo Park, CA (United States), 12 - 23 August 2019, www, slides

• Demonstrator of the First Year Computing Undergraduate Laboratory: University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), September - December 2018

• Introductory Lecture on "Lepton Universality Violation" at YETI School: Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology - Durham (United Kingdom), 7 - 10 January 2018, www, slides

• Demonstrator of the First Year Computing and Physics Undergraduate Laboratories: University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), September - December 2013

• Demonstrator of the Fourth Year "High Energy Particle Physics" Undergraduate Course: University College Dublin (Ireland), September - December 2010, 2011

• Co-Supervisor of PhD and CERN Summer Students: University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), April 2013 - December 2020; University College Dublin (Ireland), September 2010 - December 2012; CERN (Switzerland), June - August 2008

Conferences

• XVI Incontri di Fisica della Alte Energie: Trieste (Italy), 19 - 21 April 2017, www, slides

• LII Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories: La Thuile (Italy), 18 - 25 March 2017, www, slides

• XXXVIII International Conference on High Energy Physics: Chicago, IL (United States), 3 - 10 August 2016, www, slides

• VII pp@LHC: Pisa (Italy), 16 - 18 May 2016, www, slides

• II Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics: New York, NY (United States), 2 - 7 June 2014, www, slides

• XIII International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon: Rome (Italy), 30 September - 4 October 2013, www, slides

• XI Conference on the Intersection of Particle and Nuclear Physics: St. Petersburg, FL (United States), 29 May - 3 June 2012, www, slides

• XXIII Rencontres de Blois: Château Royal de Blois (France), 29 May - 3 June 2011, www, slides

• XVII International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions: Boston (United States), 5 - 10 June 2009, www, slides

• XIV International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology: Waterloo (Canada), 2 - 6 June 2008, www, slides

• XCIII National Congress of the Italian Physical Society: Pisa (Italy), 24 - 29 September 2007, www, slides

• XXI Conference on New Trends in High-Energy Physics: Yalta (Ukraine), 15 - 22 September 2007, www, slides

• VI Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics: Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), 1 - 8 November 2006, www, slides

• XCII National Congress of the Italian Physics Society: Torino (Italy), 18 - 23 September 2006, slides

• XC National Congress of the Italian Physics Society: Brescia (Italy), 20 - 25 September 2004, slides

Workshops

• Rare B Decays 2018: Munich (Germany), 20 - 22 Febraury 2018, www

• VII Workshop on Implications of LHCb Measurements and Future Prospects: Geneva (Switzerland), 8 - 10 November 2017, www, slides

• Rare B Decays 2016: Barcelona (Spain), 18 - 20 April 2016, www

• Rare B Decays 2015: Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 11 - 13 May 2015, www

• PDF4LHC: Geneva (Switzerland), 3 November 2014, www, slides

• LHCb Workshop on Quantum Interference Effects, QCD Measurements and Generator Tuning: Geneva (Switzerland), 20 - 22 October 2014, www, slides

• EW Precision Physics at the LHC: Geneva (Switzerland), 30 June 2014, www, slides

• Electroweak Precision Measurements at the LHC: Geneva (Switzerland), 28 - 30 November 2011, www, slides

• QCD@LHC 2011: St. Andrews (United Kingdom), 22 - 26 August 2011, www, slides

• Physics at LHCb: Bad Honnef (Germany), 26 - 29 April 2011, www

• NA62 Physics Handbook Workshop: Geneva (Switzerland), 10 - 11 December 2009, www

• EuroFlavour 2009: Bari (Italy), 9 - 11 November 2009, www, slides

• New Opportunities in the Physics Landscape at CERN: Geneva (Switzerland), 10 - 13 May 2009, www

• EuroFlavour 2008: Durham (United Kingdom), 22 - 26 September 2008, www, slides

• IV INFN Torino Congress: Torino (Italy), 23 January 2007, www, slides

Seminars

• Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille: Séminaire - Marseille (France), 29 January 2018, www

• University of Oxford: EPP Seminar - Oxford (United Kingdom), 28 November 2017, www

• University of Warwick: EPP Seminar - Warwick (United Kingdom), 23 November 2017, www

• University of Birmingham: PP Seminar - Birmingham (United Kingdom), 18 October 2017, www

• Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology: IPPP Seminar - Durham (United Kingdom), 30 June 2017, www

• University of Liverpool: HEP Seminar - Liverpool (United Kingdom), 28 June 2017, www

• Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire: Séminaire général - Orsay (France), 6 June 2017, www

• Albert Einstein Centre for Fundamental Physics: Plenary Meeting - Bern (Switzerland), 24 May 2017, www

• CERN: LHC Seminar - Geneva (Switzerland), 18 April 2017, www

Schools

• XVII Detectors School: Torino (Italy), 27 February - 2 March 2007, www

• XVI Detectors School: Torino (Italy), 27 February - 3 March 2006, www

• CLXIII Course of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” of the Italian Physical Society: Varenna (Italy), 19 - 29 July 2005, www

• X LNF Spring School “Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics: Fascati (Italy), 16 - 20 May 2005, www

Publications

Journal Articles

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• Measurement of the electron reconstruction efficiency at LHCb, LHCb collaboration, JINST 14 (2019) P11023, arXiv

• Review of lepton universality tests in B decays, S.Bifani, S.Descotes-Genon, A.Romero Vidal, M.-H. Schune, J. Phys. G46 (2019) 023001, arXiv

• Test of lepton universality with $B^{0} \rightarrow K^{*0}l^{+}l^{-}$ decays, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 08 (2017) 055, arXiv

• Measurement of the forward $W \rightarrow e \nu$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 10 (2016) 030, arXiv

• Measurement of the forward $Z$ boson production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 09 (2016) 136, arXiv

• Measurement of forward $W$ and $Z$ boson production in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 05 (2016) 131, arXiv

• Measurement of forward $W$ and $Z$ boson production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 01 (2016) 155, arXiv

• Measurement of the forward $Z$ boson production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 08 (2015) 039, arXiv

• Differential branching fraction and angular analysis of $\Lambda_{b}^{0} \rightarrow \Lambda \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ decays, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 06 (2015) 115, arXiv

• Measurement of the forward $W$ boson cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 12 (2014) 079, arXiv

• Study of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{\pm}\gamma\gamma$ decay by the NA62 experiment, NA62 collaboration, Phys. Lett. B732 (2014) 65, arXiv

• A new measurement of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{\pm}\gamma\gamma$ decay at the NA48/2 experiment, NA48/2 collaboration, Phys. Lett. B730 (2014) 141, arXiv

• Measurement of the cross-section for $Z \rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 02 (2013) 106, arXiv

• Measurement of the branching ratio of the decay $\Xi^{0} \rightarrow \Sigma^{+}\mu^{-}\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$, NA48/1 collaboration, Phys. Lett. B720 (2013) 105, arXiv

• A study of the $Z$ production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using tau final states, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 01 (2013) 111, arXiv

• Inclusive $W$ and $Z$ production in the forward region at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV, LHCb collaboration, JHEP 06 (2012) 058, arXiv

• Measurement of the direct emission and interference terms and search for CP violation in the decay $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{\pm}\pi^{0}\gamma$, NA48/2 collaboration, Eur. Phys. J. C68 (2010) 75, arXiv

Feature Articles

• Beauty quarks test lepton universality, S.Bifani, C.Bozzi, G.Ciezarek and P.Owen, CERN Courier Volume 58, Issue 3, April 2018, www