I’m interested in model building and phenomenology Beyond the Standard Model with attention on both astropysical and collider experiments.


Recently my attention has been on composite Higgs models, although during my PhD thesis - downloadable here - ( under the supervision of Prof John March-Russel and Prof Subir Sarkar at Oxford), I studied some implications of the existence of super- symmetric Flat Directions during the early universe. In particular, with Gian Giudice and Antonio Riotto at CERN, I explored a mechanism to produce the observed baryon asymmetry via leptogenesis within Supersymmetry.

This is a LINK to the Spires website, displaying my publications.

During an internship at CERN I also worked on the following article:

- G. Dissertori, A.Lister, W. Lustermann, F. Riva "Study of a cascaded multiplexing system for slow control applications", CMS Internal Note, 13 March 2003

My previous (undergraduate) work at the ETH Zurich and the EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) include:

- Particle Production and Generation of Density Perturbations in the Inflating Brane Universe (Master's under the Supervision of Dr. Andrii Neronov and Prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov)

- Calabi-Yau Manifolds (with Lucio Ferrari)

- Thermal History of the Early Universe and Big Bang Nucleonsynthesis

- The Spin-Boson Model