Giulia Zanderighi is an Italian-born theoretical physicist born in 1974. She is the first woman director at the

Max Planck Institute for Physics The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institu ...

Education

Giulia Zanderighi received her undergraduate degree from the

University of Milan The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe ...

in 1998 and her PhD in physics from the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...

in 2001.

Career

Zanderighi held

postdoctoral A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to pu ...

positions at Durham University from 2001 to 2003,

Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been opera ...

from 2003 to 2005, and CERN from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, she became an assistant professor at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and in 2014 she became a professor there. In 2018, she was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. She leads the department of novel computational techniques in particle phenomenology and is the first woman director at the institute in its more than 100-year history. She is an internationally recognized expert in

collider A collider is a type of particle accelerator which brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. Colliders are used as a research tool in particl ...

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

References

External links

Giulia Zanderighi's page
at the Max Planck Institute for Physics
Giulia Zanderighi's author page
at INSPIRE-HEP {{DEFAULTSORT:Zanderighi, Giulia Italian physicists University of Pavia alumni Theoretical physicists Particle physicists Italian women physicists Living people 1974 births Max Planck Institute directors University of Milan alumni