Giovanna is one of the two deputy heads of the Experimental Physics department at CERN.
She studied Physics at the university of Milano, Italy, and then carried out her PhD with the university of Bern, Switzerland.
She developed her professional career at CERN where she worked for many years through all phases of the trigger and data acquisition project of the ATLAS experiment.
In 2016 she formed a team at CERN to carry out R&D on data acquisition technologies and support experiments for the design, implementation and optimisation of their data acquisition systems. As of 2019 she is leading the trigger and DAQ project for the DUNE experiment.
Since July 2023 Giovanna is coordinating the EP R&D programme.