Salvatore Davide Porzio

I am an experimental particle physicist, working at the Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. I am also a member of the DUNE Collaboration, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, IL, USA. My current primary research interests are on searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model, focusing in particular on neutrinos and dark matter.

Before my appointment at the University of Bern, I have also been working at the Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas and the University of Coimbra, Portugal as a member of the LZ collaboration, in 2020 and 2021, working on measurements of optical properties for dark matter searches

I received my PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Manchester, where I graduated with a diploma in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Söldner-Rembold. My dissertation work was on searches for heavy neutral leptons with the MicroBooNE detector. Prior to my PhD, I studied for a MSc by Research in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, where I graduated in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Justin Evans. My work was on the impact of atmospheric neutrino uncertainties on the sensitivity of the PINGU extension to the IceCube detector, an experiment looking to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy.

I grew up in Palermo, Italy and studied Physics at the Università degli Studi di Palermo, where I graduated in 2014.

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