I have started my Ph.D thesis a year ago on the D0 experiment located at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. I am working on tau-identification. For this purpose I have developped a set of neural networks which allow a first recognition of taus according to their main hadronic decay modes. Following this activity, I am performing an analysis about gauge mediated supersymmetry processes where the stau is the next lightest supersymetric particle and thus decays in tau and gravitino. I am also involved in the data quality software development of the silicon microstrip detector.

For my Ph.D. thesis, I am working on BaBar, a detector operating at PEP-II e+e- collider at SLAC. I am studying the CP violation in the interference between mixing and decay, in the decay channel B0 -> D* pi, with a partial reconstruction technique. This kind of reconstruction selects a great number of events, which improves the precision of the measurement of the CP asymmetries, expected to be small. These asymmetries are related to the angle gamma of the unitarity triangle, so this measurement should provide a test of the Standard Model. My work includes validation studies and estimation of the systematic errors. A part of my thesis will also be to work on the DIRC (Detection of Internaly Reflected Cherenkov light) reconstruction software.

For my PhD thesis I am working on ATLAS, one of two general-purpose detectors that will study proton-proton interactions at the LHC at CERN. I am assisting the Physics and Event Selection Architecture (PESA) group develop software for the ATLAS High Level Trigger. This software will run in the online system for data taking, and also in the offline software for development. I have written and maintain a package which contains a dummy algorithm whose purpose is to exercise the functionality of certain key parts of the trigger software. It is intended as an example to show algorithm developers how to integrate their code with the core software. Currently I am engaged in work to develop a track finding algorithm for the SCT sub-detector.