Daniela Bortoletto | |
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Nationality | Italian British |
Known for | Co-discovering the Higgs boson and the top quark |
Title | Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics |
Spouse | Ian Shipsey |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Pavia |
Alma mater | Syracuse University |
Doctoral advisor | Sheldon Stone |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Physics |
Sub-discipline | Particle physics |
Institutions | University of Oxford, Purdue University, CERN |
Main interests | Silicon detector development |
Daniela Bortoletto OBE is an Italian-British high energy physicist, head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She works in silicon detector development and was a co-discoverer of both the Higgs boson and the top quark.[1][2]