CURRENT POSITION
• Associate Professor, University of Bologna, April 2021 - Permanent
• Principal Investigator of NEMUS - Numerical Restoration of Historical Musical Instruments (ERC Starting Grant, 2021-2026)
PAST
• Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, October 2020 - January 2021
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, October 2017 - September 2020
• Newton International Fellow in the Acoustics and Audio Group at the University of Edinburgh, March 2015 - March 2017
• Postdoctoral researcher at UME-ENSTA, February 2014 - February 2015
EDUCATION
• 2010 - 2014: PhD Mechanical Engineering, ENSTA and École Polytechnique, Nonlinear vibrations of thin rectangular plates: A numerical investigation with application to wave turbulence and sound synthesis
• 2009 - 2010: MSc Acoustics and Music Technology, University of Edinburgh, Nonlinear plate vibrations: A modal approach
• 2004 - 2008: BSc Physics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Numerical integration and variable timestep: application to the two-body problem
FUNDING
• 2026: Project Host, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship eMIDAS (PI: Antonio Somma), awarded by the European Commission (EUR 209,000)
• 2026: Advisor, ERC Synergy Grant Rem@ke (PIs: M. Guido, A. Schiavio, J. Speerstra), awarded by the European Research Council (EUR 9,000,000)
• 2022: Host, Finnish Cultural Foundation grant, Numerical Simulation of the Kantele (PI: Henna Tahvanainen) (EUR 82,000)
• 2021: ERC Starting Grant NEMUS, awarded by the European Research Council (EUR 1,500,000)
• 2017: Early Career Fellowship, awarded by The Leverhulme Trust (GBP 100,000)
• 2015: Newton International Fellowship, awarded by The Royal Society and The British Academy (GBP 100,000)
• 2010: EDX Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by École Polytechnique
• 2009: Jean Kennoway Howells Scholarship, awarded by University of Edinburgh
• 2007: Education Abroad Program Scholarship, awarded by Università degli Studi di Padova and University of California
AWARDS
• 2025: POMA Student Paper Competition, 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (first author: R. Russo)
• 2023: Innovation Award of Computer Music Magazine for MODUS (with Physical Audio), built on NEMUS research
• 2021: Two Best Paper Awards at DAFx (first author: S. Willemsen)
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
• 80+ publications in musical acoustics, numerical simulation, physical modelling sound synthesis, and nonlinear vibration
• 7 commercial audio plugins released with Physical Audio Ltd., including MODUS, Preparation 2, and Tetrad
• Free software: Bunkervik Spatial Reverb, the 1547 Trasuntino Kontakt Library, and MAGPIE, an open-source toolbox for plate vibration analysis
• Research covered by MIT Technology Review, Sound On Sound, MusicRadar, and Computer Music Magazine, among others
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• 2026 - : Co-founder, member of the Management and Scientific Committees, and University of Bologna delegate, CORDIMUS - Inter-University Centre for the Study, Documentation, Conservation, Restoration and Digitisation of Musical Instruments
• 2026 - : Member of the Scientific Committee, Engineering and Architecture Library, University of Bologna
• 2025 - : DIN departmental representative for EIT Culture & Creativity (EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community)
• 2025 - : Member of the Teaching Quality Assurance (AQ) Committee, Energy Engineering
• 2023 - : Chair of the Internships Committee, Energy Engineering
ACADEMIC SERVICE (SELECTED)
• Co-Chair of the international conference Musica, Tecnologia e Strumenti Storici (Bologna, 2026); Track Chair (Papers) of DAFx25 (Ancona); Organising Committees of DAFx25 and DAFx17 (Edinburgh); Theme Organiser for Musical Acoustics at Forum Acusticum 2023 and Forum Acusticum / Euronoise 2025
• Guest Editor for Acta Acustica (2024) and Frontiers in Signal Processing (2025)
• Programme Committee member for DAFx, SMC, and CIM; reviewer for JASA, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Nonlinear Dynamics, IEEE TASLP, Acta Acustica, and others
MEMBERSHIPS
• Italian Acoustical Society (AIA), 2024 -
• Audio Engineering Society (AES), 2019 -
• Italian Physical Society (SIF), 2008 - 2010
