Cătălina Oana Curceanu[1] is a Romanian physicist and lead researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.

[1][4] She carried out her doctoral research using the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN on the OBELIX experiment.

[1] She is part of the VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.

[11] The book considers concepts of modern physics, including; the standard model, black holes and neutrinos.

[21] She won a Visiting International Scholar Award from the University of Wollongong in 2017, researching detector systems for high precision spectroscopy in fundamental physics.