Caterina Vernieri

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Distinguished Scholar Network Member

Caterina Vernieri is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University and researcher at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory specializing in particle physics and advanced detector technologies. Her work bridges fundamental science and applied innovation, with expertise in Higgs boson physics, silicon detector design, and large-scale data analysis. She led the first observation of Higgs decays to bottom quarks and now leads detector construction for the High-Luminosity LHC, as well as R&D efforts shaping the next generation of collider and accelerator technologies.