I am Diana, researcher at the Southern National Laboratories.
My career at the National Laboratories of the South began with the completion of my degree thesis, participating in experiments and analyzing the data collected with the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer. It was love at first sight, since then I have never left it and inside its experimental room I feel at home.
I am an experimental nuclear physicist and my research has involved the study of reaction mechanisms and nuclear structure through the measurement of direct nuclear reactions.
I am currently part of the NUMEN experiment, which studies double charge exchange reactions in nuclei candidate for neutrinoless double beta decay, with the aim of obtaining information on the matrix elements involved in this much sought after, but not yet observed, process. This collaboration is leading me to face many challenges, also from a technological point of view, as I am designing and creating the new detectors that will be coupled to MAGNEX for measurements with high beam intensity.
I love research, I love the stimuli and challenges it offers me every day.
I participated in the mentoring course in a phase of change in my career, a moment in which I was abandoning my role as a student and very young researcher guided by older colleagues and was becoming myself responsible for the new young researchers who arrived in the collaboration.
The discussion with my mentor helped me a lot to understand my new role.