Dr. Francesca Di Lodovico

Biography

Francesca Di Lodovico is an internationally renowned physicist specializing in particle physics. She graduated from the University La Sapienza, Rome, and obtained her PhD from ETH Zurich, focusing on Higgs boson SUSY searches at LEP-2. She shifted her research focus to b-physics at the B-Factory BaBar at SLAC as a postdoc before working at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2004, she received a lectureship at Queen Mary University of London, where she established a neutrino physics group and received an ERC starting grant in 2007 for her work on the T2K experiment. Currently, she leads the Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Group at King's College London, where she has been since 2019. Di Lodovico’s research interests center around neutrino physics, focusing on significant open questions, including the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe and the nature of neutrinos. She is involved in the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, a leading next-generation neutrino experiment in Japan. Additionally, she conducts research on astrophysical neutrinos, particularly those from supernovae, and is part of the SNO+ collaboration, which seeks to understand the nature of neutrinos through various groundbreaking experiments.

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