The Guido Altarelli Award honours the memory of the late Guido Altarelli, one of the founding fathers of QCD, an outstanding communicator of particle physics, and a mentor and strong supporter of Junior Scientists.
Javier Mazzitelli has been awarded the 2024 Guido Altarelli Award in acknowledgement of his distinguished contributions to the field of particle physics. The Guido Altarelli Award is awarded every year to junior scientists for outstanding scientific contributions to the fields covered by the DIS Conference series. The Guido Altarelli Award honors the memory of the late Guido Altarelli, one of the founding fathers of QCD, an outstanding communicator of particle physics, and a mentor and strong supporter of junior scientists. Javier Mazzitelli joined the Particle Physics Theory group (NUM, Laboratory of Particle Physics (LTP)) as a postdoc in October 2022.
The research of Javier Mazzitelli focuses on Higgs-boson and top-quark physics at high-energy colliders. He has made groundbreaking calculations of high perturbative order (next-to-next-to-leading order) for the production of single and double Higgs-bosons, of top-quark pairs and to the associated production of Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons with heavy-quark pairs. These calculations pave the road to precision measurements of the properties of the involved heavy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Javier Mazzitelli obtained his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been awarded the Giambiagi award for best Doctoral Thesis in Theoretical Physics in Argentina. After three years as postdoc at the University of Zurich and three years at the Max Planck Institute in Munich he joined PSI in October 2022.