**Elena Moretti**

Dr. Elena Moretti sudied particle physics at the University of Padova and successively obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Trieste with a thesis on prompt high-energy gamma emissions from GRBs. Her research followed this same line in the following years when she moved first to the Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm and then to the Max Planck institute in Munich. Her interest in high-energy emissions from GRBs expanded to the search of very high-energy (VHE) emissions. Working with the observations of the Fermi-LAT and Fermi-GBM data, she started searching for a GRB emission in the VHE observations obtained with the MAGIC telescopes, optimising the tools and procedures for possible detection. In January 2019, Dr. Moretti was one of the first people to directly witness the detection of a GRB in the VHE band (>100GeV). This unprecedented result achieved with the MAGIC telescopes opened a new phase of study for these spectacular and powerful events.
