2010/01 - present: Ph.D. studies in Theoretical Physics -
University of Helsinki
Research topic: Processes in the very early
Universe with lattice simulation methods
Supervisors: Prof.
Kari Rummukainen, Dr.
Anders Tranberg
Research group: Non-perturbative
quantum field theory
2009/10 : Master of Science in Theoretical Physics -
University of Oulu
Master's Thesis: "Baryon-number violation at
the electroweak crossover"
(pdf)
Supervisor: Prof. Kari Rummukainen
2007 : Bachelor's Thesis: - University of Oulu
"Gravitational lensing by cosmic strings"
Supervisor: Prof. Kari Rummukainen
M. D'Onofrio, R. Lerner, A. Rajantie, Primordial curvature perturbations from U(1) hypercharged scalar", in preparation.
M. D'Onofrio, K. Rummukainen, A. Tranberg, "The sphaleron rate at the electroweak crossover"; PoS LATTICE2010:048, 2010 [arXiv:hep-lat/1011.2074].
M. D'Onofrio, K. Rummukainen, A. Tranberg, "The sphaleron rate through the electroweak crossover", in preparation.
M. D'Onofrio, N. Partamies, E. Tanskanen, "Magnetic signatures
of the substorm
current system at the Harang discontinuity", preprint.
29th February 2012: Helsinki University, Finland
- Talk: The
sphaleron rate at the electroweak crossover
1st November - 31st December 2011: Universite de Geneve,
Switzerland
Visiting Ruth Durrer's
group.
1st - 31st October 2011: Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Visiting Anders
Tranberg.
18th - 29th July 2011: "PiTP Frontiers of Physics in Cosmology"
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Talk: The
sphaleron rate at the electroweak crossover
6th - 17th June 2011: "ICTP
Summer School on Particle Physics"
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Trieste, Italy
23rd May - 3rd June 2011: "CSC
Summer School in Scientific and High-Performance Computing"
Nuuksio National Park, Finland
- Poster: The sphaleron rate
at the
electroweak crossover
5th - 6th May 2011: "6.
Kosmologietag"
IBZ, Bielefeld, Germany
- Talk: The
sphaleron rate at the electroweak crossover
20th - 21st April 2011: "Workshop:
Finnish Cosmophysics Meeting"
Tampere, Finland
- Talk: The sphaleron rate
through the electroweak crossover
29th - 31st March 2011: "Physics Days 2011"
Helsinki, Finland
- Poster: The sphaleron rate
at the
electroweak crossover (plots updated)
28th February 2011: Imperial College, London, UK
- Talk: "The sphaleron rate
through the electroweak
crossover" (updated version)
Visiting Arttu Rajantie.
20th January 2011: University of Bielefeld, Germany
- Talk: "The sphaleron rate
at the electroweak
crossover" (old version) (abstract)
Visiting Aleksi Vuorinen.
25th - 29th October 2010: "Block
course on Physics of strongly interacting theories"
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Talk: The sphaleron
rate at the electroweak
crossover
13th - 18th September 2010: "The 4th UniverseNet
School - Frontiers of Particle Cosmology"
Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
[Travel grant by UniverseNet]
29th June - 2nd July 2010: "Strong and Electroweak
Matter 2010"
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Poster: The sphaleron rate
at the electroweak crossover
14th - 19th June 2010: "Lattice
2010"
Villasimius, Italy
- Poster: The sphaleron rate
at the electroweak crossover : proceedings
3rd - 7th May 2010: "Origin of
Mass 2010"
CP3-Origins, University of Southern
Denmark,
Odense, Denmark
[Travel grant by Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation]
22nd - 31st March 2010: "Aspects
of perturbative quantum chromodynamics"
Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France
[Travel grant by PACO: Particle Physics and
Cosmology]
11th - 13th March 2010: "Physics
Days 2010"
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
17th - 22nd Sept 2009: "Block
Course on Cosmology"
University of Bielefeld, Germany
[Travel grant by PACO: Particle Physics and
Cosmology]
5th - 18th July 2009: Workshop on "Electroweak
Phase Transition"
NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden
Work experience
Jan 2012 - May 2012: Exercise assistant
Physics Department, University of Helsinki
Sept 2010 - Dec 2010: Exercise assistant
Physics Department, University of Helsinki
Sept 2008 - Dec 2008: Exercise assistant
Physics Department, University of Oulu
May 2008 - Aug 2008: Summer intern
Finnish
Meteorological Institute, Helsinki
Research topic: Magnetic substorms in Earth's magnetosphere
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Eija Tanskanen, Dr. Noora Partamies
June 2007 - July 2007: Summer intern
Physics Department, University of Oulu
Research topic: The sphaleron rate and the electroweak
phase transition
email: michela.donofrio at
helsinki.fi
