Sara Bolognesi

Sara Bolognesi (born 31 March 1981) is an Italian particle physicist specializing in standard model and neutrino physics. She directs her research at the Institute for Research on the Fundamental Laws of the Universe. In 2024, she received the CNRS silver medal.

 Life 
Sara Bolognesi graduated from the University of Turin . She joined CERN during her post-doctoral internship then Fermilab University. . She worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where she contributed to the  discovery of the Higgs Boson. In 2012, she turned to neutrino oscillation with the T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment in Japan  .

Sara Bolognesi is also head of the physics group on neutrino oscillations, in the  Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration and scientific lead for the IRFU project. . She is responsible at the CEA for the JENNIFER2 project of the European Union's Horizon2020 program where she obtained a grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions .

In 2018: she was awarded the Thibaud Prize,, she was awarded the Emmy Noether Prize by the European Physical Society 

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