Daniele Guffanti

Hi, I am Daniele Guffanti and I pompously call myself a neutrino physicist, with a special interest for those produced by astrophysical objects.

I obtained my PhD in 2019 at the Gran Sasso Science Institute measuring neutrinos produced in the nuclear reactions powering the Sun with the Borexino experiment. In the following years, while deepening the astrophysical implications of the measurements of solar neutrinos, I worked at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz on the development of a novel class of water-based liquid scintillators as a candidate for the next generation of multi-purpose neutrino detector.

I am now a postdoc at Univeristy and INFN Milano-Bicocca in Milan working on the DUNE experiment. DUNE will consists of 4 large Liquid Argon TPCs (LArTPCs), with a mass of 17 kton each; this ambitious project will measure with unprecedented precision the properties of neutrinos, in particular the hierarchy of its mass eigenstates and the possible CP violation, which is a fundamental ingredient to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in the Universe. I am developing analysis and reconstruction methods to enhance the physics reach of DUNE, in particular to make it also a powerful observatory for low-energy astrophysical neutrinos.