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Chair in High Energy Physics at the University of Manchester. Research focus on dark matter searches at the LHC, real-time analysis techniques, and research software excellence.
General Information
| Full Name | Dr. Caterina Doglioni |
| Date of Birth | 27th July 1984 |
| Pronouns | she/her |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1509-0390 |
| caterina.doglioni@manchester.ac.uk | |
| Website | caterina-doglioni.github.io |
Education
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2008-2011 D. Phil. Degree
University of Oxford, Merton College, UK - Thesis: Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
- Supervisor: Prof. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar
- PhD fully funded by external grants from UK, Italy and Sweden
- First-ever estimate of the uncertainty on jet energy measurements in ATLAS
- Thesis nominated as outstanding contribution, published in Springer Theses series
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2003-2008 Master's and Bachelor's Degrees
Università di Roma 'Sapienza', Italy - Final marks: 110/110 Cum Laude
- Master's GPA: 29.7/30, Bachelor's GPA: 29.2/30
- Full scholarship at the Collegio Universitario Lamaro Pozzani
- Winner of INFN scholarship for physics graduates in particle physics (ranked 1st in Italy)
Current Academic Positions
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2021-present Chair in High Energy Physics
University of Manchester, UK - Teaching: Course lead for Object Oriented Programming in C++ and 2nd year Nuclear Physics laboratories
- Coordinator of SMARTHEP European Training Network (2021-2025)
- Work Package leader for EVERSE project on software excellence
- Core member of HEP Software Foundation Steering Group
- Member of extended Executive Board of ESCAPE European Science Cluster
- Co-leading WLCG Environmental Sustainability Forum
- Deputy lead of University of Manchester Sustainable AI Working Group
Past Academic Positions
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2015-2021 (2021-2023 at 0.2FTE) Associate then Senior University Lecturer (Lektor/docent)
Lund University, Sweden - Teaching: Particle Physics and Reproducible research with Jupyter notebooks
- Received Sten Von Friesen Prize for advancement of measurement methods in particle physics
- Initiated interdisciplinary projects with local and international academic and industry partners
- Organiser of the initiative for Dark Matter in Europe and beyond (iDMEu)
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2011-2015 Senior Research and Teaching Assistant
University of Geneva, Switzerland - Mentor: Prof. Giuseppe Iacobucci
- Co-convener of the ATLAS Jets and Dark Matter group
- Co-lead of the LHC Dark Matter Forum and LHC Dark Matter Working Group
Honors and Awards
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2019 - Sten Von Friesen Prize for the advancement of measurement methods in particle physics and for strongly linking particle physics and other disciplines
Funding
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2026-2027 - NetDRIVE SUSTRAIN - Sustainable Training Initiative
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2024-2027 - EVERSE - European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (Work Package leader)
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2021-2026 -
2021-2025 - MSCA Innovative Training Network - SMARTHEP (Coordinator)
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2019-2023 - Swedish Research Council Individual Project Grant
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2016-2021 -
2015-2019 - Swedish Research Council Project Grant for Young Researchers
Supervision
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Postdoctoral Researchers and RSEs
- 6 postdocs and 1 Research Software Engineer (current and past)
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PhD Students
- 10 PhD students (current and past)
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Additional Supervision
- 1 Licentiate student
- 29 Master's and MPhys students
- 18 Bachelor's students
- 15 summer students
Service and Leadership
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Community Leadership
- Co-organiser of the Initiative for Dark Matter in Europe and beyond (iDMEu)
- Co-leading EuCAIF FAIR and sustainable AI Working Group (55 participants)
- Management Committee member of COST Action EPIGRAPHY
- Co-supervisor on CERN NextGen trigger project
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Editorial and Review Duties
- Reviewer for: JHEP, EPJC, PLOS-One, Physics Reports, SciPost Physics, JINST
- ERC Advanced Grants Panel PE2 member
- Remote reviewer for ERC Synergy Grants
- Panel member for U.S. Department of Energy merit-review program
- Evaluator for Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Merit Reviews
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Advisory Roles
- Member of UKRI Advisory Group for Digital Research Infrastructures (ADG)
- International Advisory Committee for CHEP conference
- Elected member of Swedish Particle Physics and Astrophysics Board (2017-2021)
Selected Recent Activities
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2025 European Strategy Symposium Panel Leader
- "Dark Matter" session panel leader, Venice, Italy (1000 participants)
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2025 OECD Workshop Keynote
- Invited keynote at "Access to research software" workshop towards policy definition
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2024 WLCG/HSF Workshop Organiser
- Organiser, speaker and session chair at DESY Hamburg (100 participants)
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2023-present Training and Outreach
- Organisation of first UK C++ graduate-level course with HEP Software Foundation and Swift-HEP
- Organisation of CHACAL school of computing for African countries
- Speaker in video on dark matter at CERN Science Gateway
- Outreach activities for students, teachers, women in STEM in Greater Manchester
Research Interests
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Dark Matter Searches
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Real-Time Analysis in ATLAS
- Trigger-Level Analysis (TLA) techniques
- Partial Event Building (PEB) for new physics signatures
- Machine learning for real-time data selection and data compression
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Research Software and Open Science
- HEP Software Foundation for common software in high energy physics
- Software excellence and sustainability
- FAIR data and software principles