Laura Covi
Nationality:Italian
Place of Birth:Bolzano (Italy)
Languages:Italian, German, English, French (elementary)

Education and Qualifications
• October 1988: enrolment in the Physics degree course at the Science Faculty,
University of Trento - Italy
• September 1991 - June 1992 : participation to the Erasmus scheme of the EC
for the mobility of undergraduate students; attended one academic year at the
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
• 22 July 1994: Laurea (Diplom) in Physics at the University of Trento, Italy,
with full marks and honours. Dissertation : “Developments in QFT at Finite
Temperature”, supervisor: Prof. Ruggero Ferrari
• October 1994: admission through competition to the Ph.D. program in Particle
Physics Theory at SISSA-ISAS in Trieste, Italy
• April-August 95 : final exams for five of the first year courses: Quantum Field
Theories, Lie Algebras and Differential Geometry, The Standard Theory of
Electroweak Interactions, Theories of Grand Unification, Supersymmetry.• October 1995: start of the Ph. D. research project on CP violation in the
early universe, especially in the leptogenesis scenario, at SISSA, under the
supervision of Dr. E. Roulet and Prof. A. Masiero
• 20 October 1997: defence of the Ph. D. thesis at SISSA.
Title of the thesis: “CP violation for leptogenesis”, supervisors: Dr. E. Roulet and Prof. A. Masiero

Past and present positions
• 1 November 1997 - 31 July 1999: Post-doctoral Research Associate at the
Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K.
• 16 September 1999 - 31 August 2001: Post-Doc in the DESY Theory Group,
Hamburg, Germany
• 1 September 2001 - 31 December 2003: advancement to Junior Staff in the
DESY Theory Group, Hamburg, Germany
• 1 January 2004 - 31 December 2005: Fellow in the Theory Division, CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland
• 26 September 2005 - 31 December 2005: Joined part-time the DESY Theory
Group, Hamburg, Germany
• 1 January 2006 - 30 October 2010: Staff member in the DESY Theory Group,
Hamburg, Germany
• since 1 November 2010: Professor at the Institute for theoretical Physics,
Georg-August University Göttingen
Past and Present Research Projects
• Until 31. March 2011: Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 676
“Particles, Strings and the Early Universe - the Structure of Matter and Space-
Time” at Hamburg University; in particular co-leader with Jan Louis of Project
C6 on Scalar fields in cosmology: Inflation, dark matter and dark energy.
• From January 2011: Participation to GIF Project “Broken Symmetries:Clues
for beyond the standard model of particle physics” together with Dortmund
University (Prof. Gudrun Hiller) and Weizmann Institute of Science (Prof.
Yosef Nir)
• From April 2012: Local coordinator of the Göttingen-DESY node in the EU
ITN-Projekt “Invisibles”, www.invisibles.eu