Prest Michela

Biography

Born in Udine (Italy) on the 4th of September 1968 29/03/1993 Degree in Physics at the University of Trieste (Italy) 21/07/1997 PhD in Physics (Trieste) 02/1997 5th in ranking in the selection for 13 post-doctoral fellowships for experimental physicists. The fellowship lasted from 03/06/1997 to 02/06/1999 31/12/2002-30/09/2014 Researcher at the Department of Physics and Mathematics (since 2012 Department of Science and High Technology) of the Insubria University (Como, Italy) since 01/10/2014 Associate Professor at the Department of Science and High Technology of the Insubria University (Como, Italy)  2001-2008 Local responsible for AGILE at the Trieste and then Milano and Milano Bicocca INFN Sections 2008 - 2012 Member of the Insubria University Administrative Council since 2008 Representative of the Insubria University in the national scientific network entitled “Study of tumour therapies based on neutron irradiation” 2 010-2012 Responsible of the outreach activities for the faculty (then Department) 2013 member of the founding committee of Scuola di Como, the inter-universities college of Como supported by the local institutions; member of the selection committee for the first year of the School since 03/2014 representative of the Insubria University since 07/2014 representative of the Insubria University in the University-Industry committee of Unindustria-Como since 2015 Local responsible in INFN-MiB of the CHANEL since 07/2015 Member of the Admistration Council of Fondazione Provinciale della Comunit`a Comasca

Research Interest

My scientific activity has focused on several items: • design, construction and test of silicon detectors and their frontend and readout electronics • design, construction and test of detection systems based on silicon detectors and scintillators, for High Energy Physics, Medical Physics and Space Physics • development of software and data acquisition systems • data analy