During a walk in Trento, when I was in my last year of high school, I looked by chance inside a bookstore, and I saw a book titled "The Music of the Primes",
by Marcus Du Sautoy. With such an engaging and misterious title, I couldn't but buying it immediately. Chance wanted that the author of the book was giving a seminar
in Trento in those days. I attended it, and I was so fascinated that I decided to use the book as main source for my final year dissertation, and to study more in
depth those topics. This is how I chose to study Mathematics.
When at university (website), I fell in love with Analysis, and in particular with Calculus of Variations
(read more here)
and Geometric Measure Theory (read more here).
To me, these are delightful areas of Mathematics, full of fascinating ideas and problems.
I then had the amazing opportunity to study as a PhD student at SISSA (website), where I was exposed to classes
by world experts on those subjects. A period in an inspiring and unique environment that shaped and opened my mind, and I learned how to do research thanks to
my advisor Massimiliano Morini.
Driven by curiosity and by the inner desire to discover and create new ideas, I decided to continue my path in research.
I was attending a conference, when Irene Fonseca approached me and offered me a poisition as Postdoctoral Associate with her.
She gave me two hours to give her an answer. I didn't need more time to accept!
The three years at the Center for Nonlinear Analysis (website) of Carnegie Mellon University allowed me
to expand my horizons and work on projects in materials science and imaging science.
That is also the period where I initiated independent projects.
My path then took me to the lands of Scotland, where I joined David Bourne at Heriot-Watt University
(website) in a 2-year project devoted
to discover the emergence of self-assembly in systems of interacting particles.
Then, in August 2020, I joined the newly formed group in Applied Mathematics (website) at Radboud University.
To this day, the experiences I had the opportunity to have and where they took me still seem incredible.
Being a mathematicians allows me to satisfy my curiosity, to be creative every day, to be constantly challenged, to engage in new exciting projects in different areas,
and to make a positive impact on society.
Have a look at my
reseach,
teaching,
mentoring,
outreach activities.
Along the way, I was always involved in activities to give back to the community. Starting back in my PhD student years, as the Vice-President of the SISSA Club I was
involved in organizing activities, course, and events for SISSA students.
In 2018 the call for founding the SISSA Alumni Society (website) came, and I was really excited about that.
We are working on connecting the alumni all over the world, create a network of people sharing an experience of their life, and spreading good practices for equality,
diversity, and inclusion policies in academia and in industry.
Here you can download my full CV (pdf).
Radboud University - Nijmegen (NL) (website)
Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei - Verona (Italy)
Indirizzo Scientifico-Tecnologico
Thesis: La sinfonia dei numeri primi [The symphony of primes]