Who we are
The CYGNO collaboration.
CYGNO is an international experimental collaboration developing directional dark matter detectors based on optical-readout gaseous Time Projection Chambers.
Coordinators and responsibilities
Collaborators by institution
Active CYGNO collaborators, grouped by institution. Local representatives are listed first.
GSSI / LNGS
- Stefano Piacentini – Assistant Professor
- David José Gaspar Marques – PhD student
- Davide Fiorina – Postdoc
- Elisabetta Baracchini – Full professor
- Federico Francesco Scamporlino – Master student
- Melba D'Astolfo – PhD student
INFN Frascati / ENEA
- Giorgio Dho – Researcher
- Alessandro Russo – Technician
- Cesidio Capoccia – Technician
- Daniele Pierluigi – Technician
- Emiliano Paoletti – Technician
- Giovanni Maccarrone – Researcher
- Giovanna Saviano – Researcher
- Igor Abritta Costa – Technologist
- Luigi Benussi – Researcher
- Michele Caponero – Researcher
- Roberto Tesauro – Technician
- Sandro Tomassini – Senior Technologist
Roma Tre / INFN Roma Tre
- Fabrizio Petrucci – Associate professor
- Pietro Meloni – PhD Student
Sapienza / INFN Roma1
- Andrea Messina – Associate professor
- Davide Pinci – Senior Researcher
- Emanuele Di Marco – Senior Researcher
- Francesco Iacoangeli – Technician
- Gianluca Cavoto – Full professor
- Giulia D'Imperio – Researcher
CBPF
- Herman Pessoa Lima Junior – Senior technologist
Universidade de Coimbra
- Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro – Invited Assistant Professor
- Fernando Domingues Amaro – Assistant Researcher
- Joaquim Marques Ferreira Dos Santos – Full Professor
- Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva – Post-Doc
- Rita Curado Sousa – Master student
- Rui Daniel Passos Mano – Post-Doc
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Rafael Antunes Nobrega – Associate professor
- Igor Fonseca Pains – PhD student
- Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho – Master student
University of Sheffield
- Neil John Curwen Spooner – Full professor
Institutions
Institutions in the CYGNO ecosystem.






















