Final Exam

• As a preparation to the final exam the student will start, choosing the most appropriate methods and techniques,  his (her) own independent project of  scientific research and of critical assessment of an advanced topic, so upgrading his/her knowledge of that field as well as the skills acquired during the LM course.
• The final exam of the LM (“laurea”, i.e. graduation exam) course consists in a public presentation and discussion of a thesis aimed at proving the candidate’s acquired capabilities of understanding problems and issues in research and of developing original solutions; the research may be also done within a training stage at other institutions or firms and working on a topic suggested by one or more teachers.
• The selection of the thesis topic and the writing of the thesis will be performed in collaboration with and under the supervision of an advisor chosen by the student: the name of the advisor and the title of the thesis (that has to briefly summarize the topic the thesis deals with) have to be approved, at least one month before the thesis discussion, by the Consiglio del Corso di Studi (CCS). Within the same deadline the Consiglio di Corso di Laurea, on request by the supervisor, has to nominate a referee.
• The thesis shall be the record of an experimental or theoretical scientific research activity, carried on independently by the student and featuring an original or innovative  approach to the topic, compatible with the educational objective of the Master Degree in Physics.
• The thesis must be written and presented in English (abstract in Italian is needed).

• As a preparation to the final exam the student will start, choosing the most appropriate methods and techniques,  his (her) own independent project of  scientific research and of critical assessment of an advanced topic, so upgrading his/her knowledge of that field as well as the skills acquired during the LM course.
  
  
• The final exam of the LM (“laurea”, i.e. graduation exam) course consists in a public presentation and discussion of a thesis aimed at proving the candidate’s acquired capabilities of understanding problems and issues in research and of developing original solutions; the research may be also done within a training stage at other institutions or firms and working on a topic suggested by one or more teachers.
  
  
• The selection of the thesis topic and the writing of the thesis will be performed in collaboration with and under the supervision of an advisor (relatore)chosen by the student: the name of the advisor and the title of the thesis (that has to briefly summarize the topic the thesis deals with) have to be approved, at least one month before the thesis discussion, by the Consiglio del Corso di Studi (CCS). Within the same deadline the Consiglio di Corso di Laurea, on request by the supervisor, has to nominate a referee* (correlatore).
  *Il correlatore ha la funzione di affiancare il Relatore durante lo svolgimento della tesi e viene indicato dal Relatore. E’ un esperto, docente universitario e non, italiano o straniero, di provata competenza nell’argomento della tesi prescelta. Il suo nome può comparire sul frontespizio dell’elaborato finale.

• The thesis shall be the record of an experimental or theoretical scientific research activity, carried on independently by the student and featuring an original or innovative  approach to the topic, compatible with the educational objective of the Master Degree in Physics.
  
  
• the thesis must be written and presented in English (abstract in Italian is needed).

How to apply   

Graduation dates and deadlines  

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Tutte le scadenze relative alla laurea sono pubblicate alla voce "Bacheca appelli di laurea" in studiare.unife.it. 

Attenzione:  per le scadenze per caricamento tesi:

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Lauree a.a. 2023-2024

-11 luglio 2024

Thesis defense session 9 October 2025

Muon Time-of-Flight studies for cosmic background rejection in the Short Baseline Near Detector
Candidate: Annalea Corallo
Supervisor: Roberto Calabrese
Counter-advisor: Fabio Mantovani

Photometric redshift measurements of newly discovered strongly-lensed sources with Euclid
Candidate: Marta Melloni
Supervisor: Piero Rosati
Co-supervisor: Pietro Bergamini
Counter-advisor: Luca Pagano

Thesis defense session 10 July 2025

Reflectivity measurements of a curved silicon crystal to build a Laue lens
Candidate: Gianluigi Ferruccio Ferioli
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisors: Lisa Ferro, Piero Rosati
Counter-advisor: Paolo Cardarelli

Density dependence of the pressure inside hadrons
Candidate: Roberto Demaria
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Counter-advisor: Paolo Lenisa

Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence for the prediction of treatment response of gynaecological cancer following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: An italian multicentric study
Candidate: Erica Costantino
Supervisor: Angelo Taibi
Co-supervisor: Savino Cilla
Counter-advisor: Fabio Schifano

Thesis defense session 20 March 2025

Simulation of Type Ia Supernovae Gamma-ray Spectra observed with ASTENA Narrow-Field Telescope
Candidate: Sergio Fini
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisor: Mattia Bulla
Counter-advisor: Luca Pagano

Thesis defense session 12 December 2024

Implementing Deep Neural Networks for in-situ crop yield prediction
Candidate: Nicola Macchioni
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Counter-advisor: Paolo Cardarelli

Thesis defense session 10 October 2024

Measurements of substrate and coating birefringence for the advancement of gravitational wave research
Candidate: Alina Mariana Soflau
Supervisor: Guido Zavattini
Co-supervisor: Michal Bejger
Counter-advisor: Giovanni Di Domenico

Study of optical properties of downshifting layers for integration in photovoltaic modules
Candidate: Leonardo Sollazzo
Supervisor: Donato Vincenzi
Co-supervisor: Giulio Mangherini
Counter-advisor: Cesare Malagù

Determination of the Reionization optical depth through a combined analysis of Planck and WMAP data
Candidate: Valentina Genesini
Supervisor: Luca Pagano
Co-supervisor: Giacomo Galloni
Counter-advisor: Mattia Bulla

The IDEA muon detector at FCC-ee: Preparation and Data Analysis of a Test Beam
Candidate: Emma Di Fiore
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisors: Federico Matias Melendi, Marco Scodeggio
Counter-advisor: Mirco Andreotti

Thesis defense session 21 March 2024

Primordial cosmological perturbations in noncommutative spacetimes
Candidate: Thomas Lovo
Supervisors: Massimiliano Lattanzi, Luca Pagano
Co-supervisor: Giulia Gubitosi

Gravitational lensing modelling of galaxy clusters with multiply lensed quasars and prospects for cosmography
Candidate: Giorgia Di Rosa
Supervisor: Piero Rosati
Co-supervisor: Pietro Bergamini

Numerical Calculation of Cosmological Trajectory During the QCD Phase Transition with Lattice QCD based Equation of State
Candidate: Lorenzo Formaggio
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Co-supervisor: Claudia Ratti
Counter-advisor: Massimiliano Lattanzi

Gravitational wave signatures of a primordial black hole dominated early Universe
Candidate: Riccardo Maule
Supervisor: Isabella Masina
Co-supervisor: Guillem Domènech
Counter-advisor: Denis Comelli

Study of edge-preserving denoising filters for Digital Subtraction Angiography in a clinical setting
Candidate: Jacopo Altieri
Supervisors: Angelo Taibi, Paolo Cardarelli
Counter-advisor: Sebastiano Fabio Schifano

Evidence for two different dynamics in long gamma-ray burst engines
Candidate: Martina Sartori
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi

Characterization of a hybrid photon-counting detector based on Timepix4 for spectral X-ray imaging applications
Candidate: Vittoria Mazzini
Supervisor: Paolo Cardarelli
Co-supervisor: Massimiliano Fiorini
Counter-advisor: Giovanni Di Domenico

Strategies for assessing high intensity radioactive sources in unknown shields
Candidate: Gabriele Galli
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Matteo Albéri
Counter-advisor: Angelo Taibi

Application of Deep Learning algorithms for automatic classification of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis images
Candidate: Matteo Bianchini
Supervisor: Gianfranco Paternò
Co-supervisor: Angelo Taibi
Counter-advisor: Luca Tomassetti

Thesis defense session 14 December 2023

Integrability and chaos: the Ziegler pendulum
Candidate: Stefano Disca
Supervisor: Vincenco Coscia
Counter-advisor: Giuseppe Pagliara

Analytical Insights into Tin-Titanium-Based Oxide Chemoresistive Gas Sensors: Mechanisms and Applications
Candidate: Sandro Gherardi
Supervisor: Cesare Malagù
Co-supervisor: Michele Astolfi, Giulia Zonta
Counter-advisor: Donato Vincenzi

Radiomic analysis and predictive models in [18F]-Fluorocholine PET/CT
Candidate: Giovanni Scribano
Supervisor: Giovanni Di Domenico
Co-supervisor: Luigi Manco
Counter-advisor: Enrico Calore.

Thesis defense session 26 October 2023

Using convolutional neural networks to extract cosmological parameters from CMB polarization maps
Candidate: Andrea Morelli
Supervisor: Luca Pagano

Thesis defense session 14 September 2023

Study of the dispersion of the time-resolved Amati correlation within a sample of Fermi long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift
Candidate: Manuele Maistrello
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisor: Lorenzo Amati

A bayesian analysis on the equation of state of neutron stars within relativistic mean field models
Candidate: Luca Passarella
Supervisor: Giuseppe Pagliara
Co-supervisor: Alessandro Drago, Jérôme Margueron

Gamma Ray Spectroscopy for Assessing Soil Water Content in Cultivated Fields
Candidate: Michele Franceschi
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Virginia Strati

Validation of an operando DRIFT spectroscopy apparatus for photo-activated chemoresistive gas sensors and operating experience with innovative alkali-doped zinc oxide
Candidate: Emanuela Tavaglione
Supervisor: Vincenzo Guidi
Co-supervisor: Barbara Fabbri, Elena Spagnoli

n-situ gamma ray spectrometry challenges for NORM hotspot detection
Candidate: Giada Costantini
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Matteo Albéri

Thesis defense session 13 July 2023

Beam dynamics simulations at the hybrid storage ring for EDM investigation
Candidate: Anna Piccoli
Supervisor: Paolo Lenisa
Co-supervisor: Rahul Shankar

SiPMs characterization in a wide temperature range: development of the setup and first measurements
Candidate: Anna Balboni
Supervisors: Marco Guarise, Luca Tomassetti

Thesis defense session 23 March 2023

Hypernuclei with neural-network quantum states
Candidate: Andrea Di Donna
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Co-supervisor: Francesco Pederiva

Soil water balance for improving a Sentinel-1 backscatter model
Candidate: Martina Natali
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani

Development and Test of an Interlock System for the BESIII CGEM Detector
Candidate: Federico Matias Melendi
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisor: Ilaria Balossino