Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto is head of particle physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College, Oxford. She works in silicon detector development and was a co-discoverer of both the Higgs boson and the top quark.

Bortoletto pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University. In 1994, she received a NSF Career Advancement Award and became the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.

In 2010, Bortoletto became the E. M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue University. For seven years, she was the upgrade coordinator for the US CMS collaboration.

In 2013, she moved to the University of Oxford, and transferred from the CMS collaboration to Atlas. Her research focuses on silicon detector development.