I am currently involved with the AMS-02 collaboration in the commissioning of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer that will measure the spectra of cosmic rays during a long term mission on the International Space Station mainly searching for antimatter and dark matter.

I was involved in the construction of the AMS Transition Radiation Detector, that is used to reach the sensitivity to positron identification needed for the detection of a neutralino dark matter candidate.

I have previously been part of the ARGO-YBJ collaboration, that built a 6700 square meters array of Resistive Plate Counters  in Yanbajing (Tibet) for the detection of small air-showers to study cosmic gamma radiation.

I worked on the optimization of the detector and of the readout electronics configuration, and on the software interface between the analysis software and the event database.

I took part in the detector construction with the activation of six new RPC clusters. The experiment is now taking data.

I am also part of the CHORUS collaboration. The main aim of the experment is the search of neutrino oscillations. 
For my Degree and PhD theses I worked on the measurement of the relative fractions in which different charmed particles are produced in neutrino interactions, exploiting the outstanding resolution at vertex provided by the nuclear emulsions target. 
I also worked on the alignment of Hadron Spectrometer, and on the momentum determination algorithms.

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