REDI Federico Leo

Federico obtained his PhD in Fundamental Physics at Imperial College London, where he pioneered searches for new physics using data from the LHCb experiment (CERN, Switzerland) and contributed to the early development of the SHiP experiment. During his doctoral studies, he also advanced new strategies for the detection of rare decays and feebly interacting particles.

He then moved to EPFL in Lausanne as a Postdoctoral Researcher, focusing on exotic searches, such as dark photons and other long-lived particles, while refining data analysis techniques that test models of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and extend the reach for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Subsequently, as a Senior Research Fellow at CERN, Federico coordinated work on topics including QCD, electroweak and exotica within the LHCb Collaboration, and played a key role in shaping the long-lived-particle working groups across the LHC experiments.

Currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Bergamo and INFN Milan, Federico continues to develop novel methods for searching for hidden or ‘dark sector’ particles, undiscovered species that, if found, may resolve long-standing puzzles in fundamental physics.