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The legacy of Enrico Fermi. The challenges of the future

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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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Elisa Minucci

I obtained my PhD in Physics in 2018 from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, with a thesis focusing on lepton number and flavor violation in K⁺ and π⁰ decays, analyzing data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN. I then continued my research within the NA62 collaboration as a CERN Research Fellow, searching for exotic particles such as dark photons and heavy neutral leptons.

In 2022, I joined the LHCb experiment at CERN as a Research Postdoctoral Associate with Syracuse University (USA), remaining based at CERN. In this role, I contributed to the assembly, installation, and commissioning of the Upstream Tracker, one of the three tracking detectors for charged particles. In July 2024, I returned to Italy as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, continuing my research within LHCb and focusing on the measurement of fragmentation fractions of b-mesons and b-baryons—a fundamental input for many flagship LHCb measurements.

As of April 2026, I am a Contract Researcher at CREF, working within the “Radio and Hadron Therapy” research line.