Academic Career
- 10/2024 – today: Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics, Physics department, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
- 05/2023 – 09/2024: Assistant Professor, Physics department, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
- 09/2021 – 04/2023: Postdoc (Junior Research Chair), Philippe Meyer Institute for Theoretical Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
- 11/2018 – 08/2021: Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Germany)
Education
- 11/2014 – 10/2018: PhD student in Statistical Physics, SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
- 09/2009 – 07/2014: Student in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy)
Awards and fundings
- ERC Starting Grant 2023, awarded by the European Research Council, for the project QUANTHEM (duration 60 months)
- Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2021
- INFN Fubini Award for the best PhD thesis in Theoretical Physics in Italy, 2019 Edition
- SISSA Award for the best PhD thesis in Physics, 2019 Edition
Teaching
- Teaching of the courses "Quantum states of matter and radiation" and "Statistical Field Theory" for the master program in Physics at the University of Bologna;
- Teaching of the course "General Physics" for the batchelor program in Information Engineering, at the University of Bologna;
- Teaching of the course "Mathematics 1" for the batchelor program in Material Sciences, at the University of Bologna;
- Teaching at international PhD summer and winter schools
Publications
- Author of about 70 publications in international scientific journals, including Phys. Rev. X, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. Research, Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. D Phys. Rev. E, Quantum, Quantum Science and Technology, Nucl. Phys. B, J. High Energy Phys., J. Stat. Mech., SciPost Phys., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., AVS Quantum Science
Institutional activities and refereeing
- Member of the "Working group on research funding" of the Physics Department at the University of Bologna, starting 06/2024
- Referee of over 100 papers submitted to international scientific journals
- Referee of grant applications for the European Research Council (ERC)
