Dr. Giannotti Maurizzio

Professor of Physics

Dr. Giannotti Maurizzio
Dr. Giannotti Maurizzio Professor of Physics

Education

  • University La Sapienza, in Rome

Biography

Dr. Maurizzio is an Italian physicist who studied at the University La Sapienza, in Rome. Upon moving to the US in 2006 he took a research appointment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and in 2009, he joined the faculty at Barry University.  His research primarily focuses on axions, which are hypothetical particles now considered to be the prime candidates for dark matter. He represents the US as part of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO), which is an experiment looking for axions produced in the sun that includes about 20 nations. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Feebly Interacting Particles Physics Center, located at CERN (Switzerland). He is a recipient of the 2020 Fulbright US Scholar award, for a project on the IAXO physics potential. He collaborates with LLNL, Caltech and MIT in the US. With Caltech and MIT his team performed the first hard X-ray observation of Betelgeuse using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (a project supported by a NASA grant.

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