Curriculum Vitae Home Curriculum vitae Research Publications Talks PhD ALICE Contacts   Download CV (PDF) Current position  I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Turin) and a member of the CMS collaboration. I participate in the IMPACT project, founded jointly by Università degli Studi di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo Education  2012: PhD in High energy physics, Universitá Degli Studi di Torino, Torino Dissertation: D+ meson analysis at the LHC with ALICE. Supervisors: M. Masera, F. Prino Discussant: Y. Schutz 2008 M.Sc. in Physics of fundamental interactions, Universitá Degli Studi di Torino, Torino, 110/110 cum laude. Dissertation: D mesons elliptic flow in Pb-Pb simulation for ALICE. 2006 B.Sc. in Physics, Universitá Degli Studi di Torino, Torino, 110/110. Dissertation: Distributed Measurement of Temperatures for the HADES MDC detector prepared at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany). 2003 High School Five Year diploma, Scientific orientation. , State Technical and Industrial School "A. Avogadro", Torino, 100/100. Dissertation: Zapatist revolution in Mexico Fellowships 2010-2011 Associate Fellowship, CERN, Geneve. Fellowship for associate position at CERN, candidate selection was made by INFN. 2009-2011 PhD full grant, University of Torino, Torino. 3 years PhD grant. 12/2008-03/2009 HELEN-ALFA fellowship, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Grant for studying at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on elliptic flow in p-p collisions, in an european-Latin America exchange program. Research Interests Charm and heavy flavours production Quark-Gluon-Plasma and hard probes to characterize it Elliptic flow and hydrodinamical evolution of the QGP High-Energy physics Higgs physics Additional training 2010: XX giornate di studio sui rivelatori (Torino, Italy). 2009: Nuclear Physics School R. Anni (Otranto, Lecce, Italy). 2009: UFRJ: Studies at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil as part of the HELEN program, working on elliptic flow in p-p collisions. 2008: Villa Gualino: International school on QGP and Heavy Ion Collisions (Torino, Italy) 2008: ECT*: Doctoral Training Programme Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions (Trento, Italy) 2006: GSI: International Summer Student Program (Darmstadt, Germany) Teaching activities 2010 School guide, INFN, Torino. School guide for the exhibitions “Esploratori dell‘Universo” (Invisibile Meraviglia, organized by INFN and Accelerating Science organized by CERN) in the framework of ESOF2010 2005 Tutor, State Technical and Industrial School "A. Avogadro", Torino. Tutorship in physics for first year high school students. Miscellaneous 2007-2008: member of the University of Turin Board (Senato Accademico) as representative of the students Software: ROOT, GEANT3, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Mathematica, Linux and microsoft OS, grid computing Foreign languages: English (fluent), French (basic), Spanish (basic)     ortona@to.infn.it