About the Speakers

Fabrice Balli

Fabrice Balli is a CEA Saclay Physicist who has been working in the ATLAS experiment for about 15 years. His current topics of study are precision electroweak Standard Model measurements and the performance of Jets and Missing transverse Momentum. He’s been co-coordinating the Jet/ETmiss group of ATLAS since September 2023.

Alessandra Cappati, Université catholique de Louvain

Alessandra Cappati, postdoc at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. They work for the CMS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. They focus their interest on the Higgs sector of the standard model, in particular studying the double Higgs boson production. They also worked on the measurement of the Higgs boson properties and on the search for a heavy resonance. They are interested in effective field theory interpretations of the results and the design of machine learning algorithms for physics.

Vitor Cardoso, Niels Bohr Institute

Vitor Cardoso is a Bohr Professor and Director of the Center of Gravity at the Niels Bohr Institute, and IST Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. His research interests are mainly focused on strong-gravity problems, with implications for gravitational-wave and black-hole physics. He pioneered black hole spectroscopy, and is co-author of the books “The eclipse of time” and “Superradiance” and of over 300 scientific papers. He edited the book “The Birth of an Idea” and has established regular collaborations with artists throughout his career. His research was recognized by the European Research Council, with three prestigious ERC Grants. He was a Research Fellow at CERN and Perimeter Institute, and a Van der Waals Professorial Chair at Amsterdam. He Chaired the IST Physics Department in 2020-2021 and the European COST Action GWverse from 2017-2021, in a network of over 500 scientists. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and the 2023 ULisboa Award, the highest honour conferred by the University of Lisbon, for his “extraordinary contributions to theoretical physics and for scientific progress on a global scale.” He was awarded the “Ordem de Sant’Iago da Espada” presidential title, for scientific achievements.

Christine Darve, ESS

Christine Darve is a French engineering scientist at the European Spallation Source (ESS), specializing in cryogenic systems for superconducting magnets and RF cavities. She is also deeply engaged in large-scale scientific collaboration and science communication. She earned her Ph.D. in Superfluid Helium from Northwestern University, and holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Thermo-Mechanics of Systems and Materials from UTBM, France. Christine has contributed to the design and operation of major particle accelerators at at CERN and FNAL. She currently chairs the IUPAP Working Group on Accelerator Science (WG14), co-founded the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP), and is a former chair of the APS Forum on International Physics (FIP). She leads the “Physics Matters” colloquium series and has developed educational programs, including MOOCs such as NPAP and AYT. An APS Fellow since 2016, she received the CERN Alumni Directorate Award in 2024 for her efforts in advancing international collaboration in physics.

Admir Greljo, University of Basel

Admir Greljo studied theoretical physics at the University of Sarajevo. He completed his doctoral research at the Jozef Stefan Institute and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 2014. His postdoctoral pursuits led him to the University of Zurich (2014-2017) and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (2017-2018). His advancements in theoretical particle physics secured him a senior research fellow position at CERN (2018-2020). Subsequently, he received an SNSF Eccellenza professorial fellowship at the University of Bern, where he established a junior research group (2020-2023). As of 2023, Dr. Greljo holds a tenure-track assistant professorship in theoretical particle physics and cosmology at the University of Basel.

Ke Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Neutrnoless double beta decay has been at the forefront of neutrino physics for the last few dacades. The experimental observation of such a process would confirm the Majorana nature of the neutrinos and imply the violation of lepton number conservation. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent progress with special focus on the latest developments since the last WIN conference.

Mark Messier, Indiana University

Mark Messier is a James H. Rudy and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University. He completed his BS at MIT and his PhD at Boston University working on the Super-Kamiokande experiment. Messier has played pivotal roles in the development of the Fermilab neutrino program as a member of the MINOS, MIPP, NOvA, and DUNE experiments, serving as NOvA co-spokesperson from 2006-2018. Messier is a Fellow of the APS and a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize as a member of the Super-Kamiokande collaboration.

Filippo Sala, University of Bologna

Physicist at the University of Bologna, Italy, performing research in the fields of particle and astroparticle physics and cosmology. His work aims at understanding mysteries about the universe, like its early history and the nature of dark matter. His approach is driven by the necessity to test ideas with observations, with a focus on those at neutrino and gravitational wave detectors, telescopes and colliders.