Caterina Vernieri received her PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, in 2014 and then moved to Chicago for a postdoctoral fellowship on the CMS experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She joined SLAC in 2018 as a Panofsky Fellow– moving to the ATLAS experiment– and in 2022 she became an Assistant Professor. Throughout this time, she has been devoted to studying the Higgs boson using data from the LHC. She co-led the group in the CMS experiment studying the Higgs decay to b quarks at the time that this important decay process was finally discovered in the data. At SLAC, Caterina is focusing on Higgs physics. She is also responsible for the integration activities at SLAC of the new ATLAS Pixel Inner Tracker detector. She was also co-convener of the group on Higgs boson properties in Snowmass: the U.S. national study of the future of particle physics.
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