Laura Reina

Dr. Reina received her Ph.D. degree in high-energy theoretical physics from The International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy) in 1992. After postdoctoral work at the University of Brussels (Belgium) and at Brookhaven National Laboratory, she joined the University of Wisconsin in Madison as assistant scientist in 1997 and the FSU faculty in 1998, where she was appointed full professor in 2007. She is FSU Distinguished Research Professor since 2017 and currently endowed with the Joseph F. Owens named professorship. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida, and a recipient if the Jesse W. Beams Award of the South-East division of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Reina's research is mainly oriented to the phenomenology of elementary particle physics, with particular attention to the effects of perturbative QCD corrections in collider physics. Recently she has conducted some important studies of the production of Higgs bosons and weak vector bosons in association with heavy quarks at hadron colliders and she has been focusing on the application and development of analytical and numerical algorithms for the systematic implementation of higher order perturbative field theory calculations. Her expertise also includes the physics of heavy flavors, CP-violation, and new models beyond the Standard Model that she explores via an effective field theory approach and through global precision fits of collider observables and beyond.