Fitxa persona

Dr Leandro Javier Cieri (PhD 2012) is a CIDEGENT Distinguished Researcher at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) and the University of Valencia, where he teaches the Quantum Field Theory course in the Master's programme. Previously, he was a staff member at INFN in Florence (Marie Curie-Fellini Fellowship) and a researcher at the University of Zurich, La Sapienza University of Rome, and INFN Milano-Bicocca. Between 2023 and 2025, he also served as an STA member of the ATLAS collaboration.

An expert in High Energy Physics, he specialises in LHC phenomenology and high-precision QCD calculations. He is a lead author of codes such as DYTurbo and DYNNLO, benchmark tools used globally by experimental collaborations. His doctoral thesis received the Giambiagi Prize for key contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Currently, he acts as an expert evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC) and a consultant for the European Innovation Council (EIC), as well as a referee for high-impact journals (PRD, JHEP, EPJC).