Francesca Dordei
Senior Researcher at INFN
Ceraxus/Selargius, Sardinia, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesca Dordei is a tenured Senior Researcher and particle physicist with 12 years of experience developing and validating large-scale analysis frameworks for LHC experiments. Based at INFN in Sardinia after research fellow work at CERN and a PhD from Heidelberg, she blends deep physics analysis expertise—precision CP-violation and lifetime measurements—with practical software development for ALICE and LHCb. Her contributions to high-profile open-source projects like AliRoot and AliPhysics include ROOT6 migration fixes, QA/trending macro improvements, and visualization/debugging of large datasets, highlighting an uncommon combination of experimental rigor and backend codecraft. She has presented key results at international conferences and mentored students, demonstrating both communication and leadership in large collaborations. Francesca’s background in handling massive data samples and tuning analysis pipelines makes her particularly effective at bridging physics goals with robust software tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Elementary Particle Physics, 110/110 cum Laude, Master's Degree, Elementary Particle Physics, 110/110 cum Laude at Università degli Studi di CagliariDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics at Heidelberg UniversityHigh School, Diploma di maturità classica, 100/100, High School, Diploma di maturità classica, 100/100 at Salesiani Cagliari
Italian, English, German, French
Github Skills (15)
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alice10
root-view10
analyse10
data-visualisation10
c-language10
exp10
data-visualization10
physics10
cprogramming-language10
document-root10
data-analysis10
macros9
experiment9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alisw/AliPhysics
Dec 2013 - Sep 2020
ALICE Analysis Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:291 commits, 33 PRs, 13 comments in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Francesca primarily focused on fixing compilation errors and adding necessary includes to support ROOT6, which is crucial for the ALICE physics analysis. Their commits involved modifications to configuration scripts, macro files, and header files within the PWGLF/RESONANCES directory. They also updated the task configuration by adding event QA monitoring options and enabling trigger selections for both ESD and AOD analyses. These changes indicate a focus on ensuring the analysis framework functions correctly with the updated ROOT environment and that appropriate event selections are applied for physics analysis.
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alisw/AliRoot
Dec 2013 - Nov 2015
ALICE Software Framework
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:150 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Francesca primarily contributed to the ALICE Software Framework by commenting out unused `TProfile` objects, fixing axis labels, and updating and enabling options for trending macros. Their work involved modifying the `MakeTrendingTOFQA.C` macro and the `MakeTrendingTOFQA.C` code, indicating a focus on data analysis, data visualization, and QA/QC procedures within the framework. The user also contributed to fixing canvas and image parameters.
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