Marcella Diemoz - Biography#

My scientific interest has been dedicated since the beginning of the career to the understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics. Neutrino weak interactions and studies of QCD (CHARM experiment), the determination of the Z and W properties and the search for the Higgs boson at LEP (L3 experiment), thesearch and discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC (CMS experiment) represent my main research topics.

In the Higgs discovery, a major breakthrough for particle physics, I had a leading role in the design, construction and exploitation of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter, the key detector for the observation of the decay H→γγ. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to F. Englert and P. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism confirmed experimentally in 2012 by ATLAS and CMS at LHC. After the Higgs boson discovery, the key issue is to understand if even tiny deviations from the Standard Model are present and I am focusing now on the particle nature of the dark matter (CMS and SABRE).

Main Responsibilities in Scientific Coordination

• 1996 - 2012 leader of the CMS Rome group contributing to the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) Project. Responsible for the construction and test in Rome and delivery to CMS of half of the barrel part of ECAL (about 30000 PWO crystals)
  
• 1997 - 2002 member of the Technical Board of ECAL
  
• 2002 - 2007 coordinator of INFN activities (Roma, Milano, Torino, Trieste) within the CMS ECAL Project
  
• 2001 - 2004 Deputy Chair of the CMS ECAL Institution Board
  
• 2004 - 2008 Deputy Project Manager CMS ECAL Project
  
• 2004 - 2011 Member of the CMS Management Board
  
• 2007 - 2011 INFN representative in CMS (Rappresentante nazionale italiano)
  
• 2007 - 2011 Member of the CMS Finance Board
  
• 1996 - 2012 Member of the CMS Collaboration Board
  
• 2011 - 2019 Director of INFN Sezione di Roma (Rome Department, (100 staff members and more that 300 associates to the scientific activities of INFN)
  
• From 2020 Partner Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics for the Sezione di Roma
• 2021 - 2023 Co-Chair of the CMS Implementation Team on Inclusion and Diversity
  

International Scientific Committees

• 2007 member of the Review Comm. for Calorimetry and Jet Energy Measurement at ILC
  
• 2008 - 2014 member of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA)
  
• 2009 - 2012 member elected of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN (SPC), 1st term
  
• 2012 - 2014 member elected of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN (SPC), 2nd term
  
• 2011 - 2014 member of the ECFA EU Comm. to review the R&D effort for future detector projects
  
• 2011 - 2012 member of the Preparatory Group for European Strategy in Particle Physics
  
• 2017 - 2021 member of the Future Circular Colliders International Advisory Committee
  
• 2018 - 2019 member of the Muon Collider working group for the EU Strategy in Particle Physics

During my career, I published 1560 papers (iNSPIRE-HEP, h=189), I gave a number of invited talks to international and national conferences, lectures to international and national schools.

I spend a great attention to the education and the career of young people, to the dissemination of scientific culture and, in the last few years, to the role of women in science (STEM). I established innovative CERN programs to explain particle physics to young students and High School teachers. I gave a number of courses and lectures for PhD students and Post Doc in Italy and in international schools. I also frequently give outreach talks and address the gender balance problem in science as in Vilnius Science Festival (2017) and UWE (University Women of Europe) Conference Women in STEM professions (Rome 2018).