Giacomo D’Amico is an astroparticle physicist working in gamma-ray astronomy and fundamental physics. His research focuses on the search for Dark Matter (DM), the investigation of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), and the development of statistical tools for data analysis. Dr. D’Amico began his doctoral studies in 2015 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” where he explored LIV features in gamma-ray bursts and neutrinos. In 2018, he joined the MAGIC collaboration at the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2020, as a postdoc researcher at the University of Bergen, he has been contributing to the international Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) collaboration. In 2024, Giacomo was awarded the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral grant to support his research on DM and LIV at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) in Barcelona.

The development of his MSCA project (GammaRays4LIV-DM) under the supervision of Prof. Michele Doro aims to address fundamental challenges in modern physics by exploiting the synergy between current gamma-ray observatories like MAGIC and the CTAO’s LST-1 telescope, and next generation observatories like CTAO. Innovative statistical tools will be implemented, ultimately pushing the boundaries of our understanding of DM and the nature of spacetime while offering methodologies with far-reaching cross-disciplinary applications.