Academic Experience
• Current position (since July 2022): Senior Assistant Professor at University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy).
• March 2020 - July 2022: Junior Assistant Professor at University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy).
• November 2018 - March 2020: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy).
Education
• 2014-2018: Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering – Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy) - Thesis: “Experimental and analytical investigation of pressurized vessels exposed to fire”.
• 2014: Industrial Engineering Qualifying Examination (Esame di stato)
• 2011-2014: Master's degree in Chemical and Process Engineering – Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy) - Thesis: “Addressing dynamic risk in the petroleum industry by means of innovative analysis solutions”.
• 2008-2011: Bachelor's Degree in Chemical and Biochemica Engineering – Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali – DICAM – (Italy) - Thesis: “Produzione di idrogeno: analisi di cicli termochimici”.
Experiences abroad
• September -Dicember 2018: Visiting Research Fellow at Centre d'Estudis del Risc Tecnològic (CERTEC) di Barcelona (Spain) "Impact of fildfires on LPG domestic storage tanks at the wildland-urban interface.
• May 2017 and November 2020: Fire tests campains on storage tanks at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing di Berlino (Germany).
• June 2016: Visiting Ph. D student at l’Ecole de Mines de Alés (France) - CFD modelling of the response of storage tanks exposed to wildfires.
• July - August 2015: Visiting Ph. D at Queen’s University di Kingston (Canada) - CFD modelling of storage tanks exposed to fire.
• September - Dicember 2013: Internship at SINTEF (department of technology and society), Trondheim, (Norway) - "Developement of dynamic risk analysis tools for offshore operations"
