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Anna Martin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste, and serves as Head of the Nucleon Spin Structure: COMPASS at CERN research group within the Particles, Astroparticles and Gravitational Waves research strand. She actively participates in departmental governance as a member of the Department's Board, Boards of Studies, and multiple Doctoral Studies Boards across various physics cycles (XXIX-XXXIX). Her research focuses on fundamental particle interactions and nucleon structure investigations.
- Staff ID: 3410
- Phone: 040 558 3363
- Homepage: http://wwwusers.ts.infn.it/~martin/univ/
Professor Martin's research interests center on experimental particle physics, particularly the spin structure of nucleons and hadron spectroscopy. Her work addresses fundamental questions in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), including how proton spin is carried by its constituents and whether exotic hadronic states exist beyond conventional quark models. She leads investigations into gluon polarization in longitudinally polarized nucleons, transverse spin distribution functions, and generalized parton distributions through deep virtual Compton scattering.
Her research group participates in the COMPASS experiment at CERN, a fixed-target experiment investigating hadron structure and spectroscopy using high-energy muon and hadron beams. The Trieste group under her leadership contributes to detector development, data processing and analysis, and phenomenological interpretation of experimental results in collaboration with theoretical physicists.
Professor Martin's group collaborates with international institutions through research grants from INFN, European Union (STRONG-2020), University of Trieste (FRA programs), and MIUR (PRIN2008). The group includes faculty members Andrea Bressan, Piero Ciliberti, and Jan Matousek, along with several PhD students and collaborators from INFN and ICTP.
As an educator, Professor Martin serves on multiple Boards of Studies for Physics degree programs (SM20, SM23) and Doctoral Studies Boards across numerous cycles (XXIX-XXXIX), contributing to curriculum development and doctoral supervision in physics education at the University of Trieste.
