Winner of the
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2025
For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Total price: 1M$ (shared among all the members and donated to the CERN & Society Foundation. Link to price page.
Winner of the
Machine Learning competition at INFN School of Statistics
2019
During the INFN School of statistics 2019 (you can find additional info here), a Kaggle challenge was put in place to test the best Machine Learning model using an High Energy Physics dataset. At the end of the school, I was awarded with the first prize (ex aequo). In the picture above: Luca Lista (INFN Naples) and Sergey Gleyzer (CMS, CERN).
First Prize
scholarship "Fondazione Giuseppe Occhialini"
The 7th of June 2013 I was awarded with the first prize of the "G.Occhialini" foundation, named after the Italian physicist Giuseppe Occhialini, father of the pion particle (π) discovered at the Wills Laboratory in Brisol and a pioneer in the experimental methodologies applied to nuclear and subnuclear physics; in 1993 he was appointed as onorary member of the European Physical Society.
The award ceremony was chaired by Antonio Zoccoli, president of the foundation.