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Mario Campanelli received his undergraduate degree from Rome University in 1995, where he completed a master's thesis on the construction and testing of an electromagnetic calorimeter for the L3 experiment at CERN. He worked as a summer student and then as a fellow at Geneva University, focusing on the analysis of leptonic gamma-gamma production. In the fall of 1995, he began his Ph.D. at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), where he measured the production cross-section of W pair masses during the LEP2 running period. He then took a research position at ETH, while also based at CERN, working in the neutrino group on a prototype liquid argon chamber that collected data in the west area of the neutrino beam, contributing to performance studies of the ICARUS detector and tau appearance measurements. After co-authoring papers on the design and performance optimization of next-generation accelerator-based experiments for neutrinos produced by muon decay storage rings (Neutrino Factories), he secured a long-term research position (maitre-assistant) at Geneva University in 2001, where he worked on the CDF experiment. He contributed to the validation of the SVT trigger and the measurement of the mass and width of excited charm mesons D1 and D2. Additionally, he measured the production of photons in association with b jets using a trigger that enhances b production by identifying on-line tracks with large impact parameters. In Spring 2007, he began working on the Atlas experiment at CERN, focusing on jet clustering algorithms and trigger scintillators. In October 2007, he joined University College London as a lecturer, specializing in VBF Higgs searches and forward trigger studies within Atlas.