Checchia Caterina

checchia_caterina

Sezione di Fisica 
Via Roma, 56 – 53100 Siena
E mail: caterina.checchia2@unisi.it

 

The doctor, a junior researcher RTDA, graduated with honours from the University of Padua in 2014. She obtained her PhD in Experimental Physics from the University of Siena in 2018 and has been working on high-energy cosmic rays ever since. She is currently responsible for data analysis for the CALET experiment, which studies heavy nucleus fluxes, and is involved in the VIRGO collaboration for the study of gravitational waves.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

1. High energy cosmic rays
2. Particle detectors
3. Gravitational waves