Caterina Doglioni

Caterina Doglioni is a professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester, after her education and previous career steps in Italy, UK, Switzerland and Sweden.  

Prof. Doglioni works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Her research focus is uncovering the nature of Dark Matter, a kind of unknown matter constituting 85% of the matter in the universe. Her research interests have also been driven by the challenges related to the “big science” needed to study the fundamental constituents of matter at the LHC. The vast amount of data produced by the LHC, and the even larger and more complex datasets prospected for future colliders, present the perfect research environment requiring novel computing, AI and ML tools. 

She works with her group of Master’s, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers supported by the European Research Council and UKRI, and she coordinates the SMARTHEP European Training Network (www.smarthep.org) on real-time analysis enabled by ML and heterogeneous computing architectures. 

Prof. Doglioni’s research is founded on Open Science and sustainability for software and AI/ML in both in the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible) and environmental contexts. She is a work package lead for the European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (EVERSE) representing the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI (ESCAPE) and building bridges between scientific communities, their infrastructures, and the European Open Science Cloud. She is the co-organizer of the FAIR and environmentally sustainable AI working group within the European Coalition for AI in Fundamental Physics (EuCAIF).