Management Structure
Action Chair: Prof. Alessandro Mirizzi
Action-Vice Chair: Dr. Francesca Calore
Science Officer: Dr. Ralph Stuebner
Administrative Officer: Ms Rose Cruz Santos
Grand Holder Scientific Representative: Prof. Alessandro Mirizzi
Grant Awarding Coordinator: Prof. Venelin Kozhuharov
Science Communication Coordinator: Prof. Olga Mena
Young Researchers Council Representative: Dr. Arturo de Giorgi
Working Group Leaders
WG1: Theory and Model Building.
Prof. Michele Cicoli
Dr. Sophie Renner & Dr. Nicole Righi & Dr. Arturo de Giorgi
WG2: DM & Cosmology.
Dr. Edoardo Vitagliano
Dr. Marco Gorghetto & Dr. María Benito Castaño & Mathieu Kaltschmidt
WG3: Astrophysics.
Prof. Maurizio Giannotti
Dr. Oscar Straniero & Dr. Elisa Todarello & Dr. Giuseppe Lucente
WG4: Direct WISP Searches.
Prof. Marin Karuza
Dr. Claudio Gatti & Prof. Deniz Aybas
WG5: Dissemination & Oureach.
Prof. Olga Mena
Prof. Loredana Gastaldo
Grant Evaluation Committee:
Prof. Venelin Kozhuharov (Chair)
Dr. Mirela Babalic
Dr. Arturo de Giorgi
Dr. María Benito Castaño
Prof. Serkant Cetin
Equity and Inclusiveness Committee:
Prof. Deniz Sunar Cerci (Advisor)
Dr. María Benito Castaño
Dr. Francesca Calore
Prof. Loredana Gastaldo
Prof. Olga Mena
Other Leadership Positions
Colloquium.
Fuensanta Vilches: 2025-Today
Mario Reig Lopez: 2024-Today
Marta Fuentes Zamoro: 2024-2025
Giuseppe Lucente: 2023-2024
Arturo de Giorgi: 2023-2024
Journal Club.
Silvana Abi Mershed: 2024-Today
Xavier Ponce Diaz: 2024-Today
Maria Benito Castaño: 2023-2024
Michele Tammaro: 2023-2024
Newsletter.
Damiano Fiorillo: 2022-Today
Alessandro Lella: 2023-Today
Giovanni Grilli di Cortona: 2022-2023
Whispered Tutorials.
Luca Caloni: 2024-Today
Amedeo Favitta: 2024-Today
Philip Sørensen: 2024-Today
Social media.
Silvana Abi Mershed: 2024-Today
Giuseppe Lucente: 2022-Today
Maria Benito Castaño: 2023-2024
YRC Representative.
Marta Fuentes Zamoro: 2025-Today
Arturo de Giorgi: 2024-2025
Joshua Eby: 2023-2024
Pierluca Carenza: 2022-2023
Participants
News
- 22nd-25th June 2026: 4th CA21106 General Meeting in Corfu, Greece, Link.
- 17th-20th June 2026: 4th CA21106 Training School in Corfu, Greece, Link.
- Opening of registrations for the Working Groups Meeting at CERN, 3-4 February 2026, Link.
- Video from the 3rd CA21106 General Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria is available at Link.
- 27th-28th October 2025: The meV Axion Mass Frontier: challenges and opportunities (INFN Frascati Laboratories, Italy)
- 22nd-23rd October 2025: Dark Universe Cosmology (Bologna, Italy)
- M. Fuentes Zamoro (Madrid, IFT), S. Hollick (Universidad de Zaragoza), N. M. Sanchez Gonzalez (Oxford U.) got the COSMIC WISPers Prize 2025 for the three best students talks in the 3rd CA21106 Training School in Annecy.
- CA21106 Input for the European strategy on particle physics, arXiv:2503.2043 [hep-ph]
- 16th-19th September 2025: 3rd CA21106 Training School in Annecy, France, Link.
- 9th-12th September 2025: 3rd CA21106 General Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria Link.
- Opening of registrations for the CA21106 Brainstorming Meeting (Online), 3 April 2025, Link
- Opening of registrations for the Working Groups Meeting in Heidelberg (Germany), 13-14 February 2025, Link.
- A collection of videos about our Action is available on Youtube on INFN Channel.