Giulia Ricciardi is a professor in the Physics Department E. Pancini at the University of Naples Federico II. She received her PhD in Theoretical Physics with highest honors from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She was a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate at Harvard University, and she has worked at leading universities and research institutions both in Italy and abroad. She has received various awards for her scientific contributions and has been nominated to several international scientific committees evaluating major research projects. Her research interests include flavour physics, quantum field theory, neutrino physics. She has authored a large number of significant publications and co-authored a book on CP violation. She collaborates with several experimental groups and is a theorist member of the T2K collaboration. Since 2006, she has founded and chaired an ongoing series of international conferences on particle physics.

1 Historical survey.- 2 Global symmetries.- 3 Gauge theories.- 4 The Standard Model.- 5 The mass of neutrinos.- 6 The mixing of neutrinos.- 7 Natural neutrino sources.- 8 Oscillations at reactors and accelerators.- 9 Neutrino cross sections.- 10 Theoretical and experimental prospects.- References.