My scientific interest was devoted since the beginning of the career to the understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics, from neutrino weak interactions (CHARM experiment) to the study of the Z and W properties at LEP (L3 experiment) and the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC (CMS experiment). In this last breakthrough for particle physics, I had a leading role in the design, construction and exploitation of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter, the key detector for the observation of the decay H→γγ. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to F. Englert and P. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism confirmed experimentally in 2012 by ATLAS and CMS at LHC. After the Higgs boson discovery, the key issue is to understand if even tiny deviations from the Standard Model are present and I am focusing now on the particle nature of the dark matter (CMS and SABRE). Summary of publications (from WoS): 1314 published papers. Total citations: 63074. Without self-citations: 52365. h index 108.