Monica Turcato

Monica Turcato (Member, IEEE) received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Padua. Before joining the photon science community, she dedicated a significant part of the career to high energy physics. She was involved in the ZEUS experiment of the HERA accelerator with the University of Hamburg, where she covered different roles, from expert in data taking to scientific data analysis coordinator. In 2011, she joined European XFEL as a Detector Scientist, and became the in-house responsible and contact person for the DSSC Consortium, developing one of the MHz detectors deployed at the facility. In the DSSC project, she lead the integration of the first detector at the SCS instrument, in 2019. She is currently the Head of the Detector Group, European XFEL, which is mandated with detector installation, commissioning, testing, calibration, and operation; the group also coordinates and participates to detector development projects aimed to providing specific detectors for the European XFEL.