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The Enrico Fermi Research Center - CREF promotes original and high-impact lines of research, based on physical methods, but with a strong interdisciplinary character and in relation to the main problems of the modern knowledge society.

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The CREF was born with a dual soul: a research centre and a historical museum. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the memory of Enrico Fermi and to promote the dissemination and communication of scientific culture.

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Ritratto di Diana Laura Sirghi

EMAIL: diana.Laura.Sirghi@lnf.infn.it

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Diana Laura Sirghi

In 1997, I started working at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest in the Department of Elementary Particles. My first research activity concerned studying the kinematic conditions necessary to produce the baryon resonance Delta(1520) in electroproduction reactions.

In 1992, following a national competition won at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Bucharest (IFIN-HH), I worked as a researcher in the Department of Particle Physics. From 2002 to 2022, I worked at the National Laboratories of Frascati with scientific activity dedicated to the study of exotic atoms within the international collaborations DEAR, SIDDHARTA and SIDDHARTA-2, AMADEUS, at the DAΦNE accelerator, and the verification of fundamental principles of physics as part of the international VIP and VIP-2 collaborations at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories.

As part of the Italy—Japan collaboration, I participated in the measurement rounds and data analysis in experiments studying the interaction of high-energy kaons with nuclear targets, particularly nuclear weapons experiments E15, E31, E57, and E62 at the J-PARC accelerator.
From 2022 to today, I have been working at CREF as part of the “QUBO project – “Exploring the QUantum Boundaries of many-body systems – an Odyssey into the gravity-related collapse models”, where I carry out research activity dedicated to the development of advanced methods for energy calibration and data analysis for Precision X-ray spectroscopy.

I have participated in more than 35 national and international conferences, of which 22 as a speaker and four as a member of the organizing committee. I have published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. I was a member of the Management Board for the European projects (FP6, FP7) HadronPhysics/2/3 (2004-2014).