What do you do here at Wright Lab?
Teaching and research; both exciting activities. Recently, I taught a course on instrumentation together with Bonnie Fleming, and it has been a brand new experience here at Yale after many years of teaching Swiss students. As for research, we have great neutrino physics projects, MicroBooNE, SBND, and DUNE. For the latter, I am very happy to pursue the work on the near detector, which I started in Bern.
What is the most unique and/or exciting experience you’ve had here at Wright Lab?
Dealing with people, at every level. Very enriching from the human and scientific points of view. I really feel as a player of a great team.
What are you looking forward to in the coming year at Wright Lab?
I have a primary goal for which, with the collaboration of several colleagues from Yale, I am in the process of finalizing a summer research program for up to ten bright undergraduate students coming from Italy. The nice feature is that they are supported by a charity that supports educational pursuits of children of medical doctors who have been orphaned. I hope they will bring here a little bit of the “special” Italian culture, and come back home with a taste of the Yale research and education systems.
What is something that people might not know about you that you’d like to share with the community?
I do not know if this is unknown, but I like very much to spread science to young people. I write books, give conferences, etc. And there is no lower age limit!
…ah, I forgot–I am a great fan of the Napoli Soccer Team…sooner or later we will again win the Serie A championship!
