Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has contributed to significant particle physics discoveries and has developed the precision scientific instruments that enabled them.

She started working on Higgs physics after participating in the top quark discovery with the Collider Detector at Fermilab experiment. As a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, she contributed to discovering the Higgs boson in the decay channel with electrons and muons.

She also searched for higher-mass Higgs bosons and set the first bounds on the Higgs boson width.

In 2013, Bortoletto joined the University of Oxford and the ATLAS collaboration. Her group made significant contributions to understanding the Yukawa interactions by playing an essential role in discovering the Higgs boson decay to a pair of beauty quarks and setting the best limits on the coupling of the Higgs boson to the charm quark.

Bortoletto has had a significant role in designing, building and operating silicon detectors, including CDF SVX II and the CMS Pixel detector.

She is currently co-leading the UK module production for the ATLAS pixel detector HL-LHC upgrade, constructing ultralight detectors for the Mu3e experiment and developing novel silicon detectors for experiments at future colliders.