Federica Fabbri, researcher at the “Augusto Righi” Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Alma Mater and associated with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) was selected among the six most deserving young researchers.
Federica Fabbriresearcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” of the Alma Mater and associated with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), is among the winners of the Young Talents Italia Award – L’Oréal Italia UNESCO for Women and Science.
The award, in its twenty-second edition, has selected the six most deserving young researchers among the 260 applications collected, offering them concrete support to carry out their research activity and study project in Italy. During the awards ceremony, the Minister of Education Anna Maria Bernini and the Minister for Family, Birth and Equal Opportunities Eugenia Maria Roccella also spoke with a video message.
The jury was composed of a panel of illustrious Italian university professors and scientific experts and was chaired by the professor Lucia VotanoAffiliated Research Manager at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Federica Fabbri is a physicist specialized in the study of sub-nuclear phenomena. It deals with applying concepts from quantum information theory to the study of elementary particles produced at very high energy in particle accelerators.
His project – “Exploring quantum observables at LHC” – aims to find a new direction to answer questions left open by the standard model of elementary particles, such as the essence of dark matter or the reason why matter prevailed over antimatter . The idea behind the project is to apply concepts coming from quantum information theory to probe interactions between fundamental particles, generated in large particle accelerators.
“With this project – explains the researcher – I will develop innovative strategies and techniques dedicated to measurement variables inspired by quantum information theory analyzing the heaviest fundamental particles known: the top quark and the Higgs boson. Furthermore he will study the potential of these new measurements to answer still unresolved questions about the nature of our Universe.”
