Fiorenza Donato is an Italian theoretical astroparticle physicist whose research involves the study of cosmic rays and their use in understanding the nature of dark matter, the possible products of particle collisions involving dark matter, the creation and behavior of antimatter among high-energy cosmic particles, and gamma-ray astronomy. She is a full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Turin.[1]

Education and career

Donato graduated magna cum laude from the University of Turin in 1995, and continued at the university for a Ph.D. in physics, completed in 1998. She earned a French habilitation in 2002, and an Italian professorial habilitation in 2013.[2]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules from 1998 to 2001, at the University of Turin from 2002 to 2004, and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics from 2004 to 2005.[1]

She continued as a researcher at the University of Turin, becoming an associate professor there in 2015 and full professor in 2021.[1]

Recognition

Donato was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, after a nomination from the APS Division of Astrophysics, "for extensive ground breaking contributions in astro particle physics and indirect dark matter searches".[3] She became a corresponding member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in 2021.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fiorenza DONATO, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, retrieved 2022-07-26
  2. ↑ Prof. Fiorenza Donato, University of Turin, retrieved 2022-07-26; see also linked curriculum vitae
  3. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2015 by the Division of Astrophysics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-07-26
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