Patrizia Azzi

Patrizia Azzi is an Italian physicist best known for her involvement in the discovery of the top quark and Higgs boson. She is a senior researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Padova division and was included in the 100 Women Against Stereotypes (#100esperte) project, a showcase of 100 female Italian experts meant to promote female expertise in traditionally male-dominated fields.

Life and career Patrizia Azzi is from Desenzano del Garda in Lombardy and attended the University of Padova. In 1991, she moved to Chicago from Italy and began working at Fermilab where she worked in the CDF collaboration, where she participated in the discovery of the top quark in 1995. She is also a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Selected publications