The award ceremony for the competition reserved for INFN employees and associates took place on Saturday afternoon, May 14, at the Acacia Theater in Naples, “Adesso tocca a noi: il mondo della fisica racconta la scienza con l’arte”. The competition between professionals, in its first edition, is part of the European project “Art & Sciences across Italy” curated by INFN and aimed at Italian high school students to promote scientific dissemination through the language of art .

It was precisely the students participating in the project who, at first challenged each other with art containing scientific content to win an internship at CERN in Geneva and then voted for those created by the INFN employee and associated staff, determining the 12 works winners.

Over 220 students expressed their opinion on the 60 works presented by the researchers and technicians and, among the 12 winning works, that of our colleague Donato Di Ferdinando was also selected.

“The Opera Selfie” is the title of the photo presented by Donato, obtained from a nuclear emulsion of the OPERA experiment, exposed through a pinhole, on which the image of the entire OPERA detector was later impressed. The concept of a part of the detector that reveals all of itself and the imperfections of the emulsion that gave a retro flavor to the photo really appealed to the jury made up of students.