Research Experience and Education
Oct 2026 (officially appointed) Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
Aug 2022 – present Junior Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
Feb 2019 – Apr 2022 PostDoc Research Associate
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK
Feb 2017 – Feb 2019 PostDoc Research Associate
Dipartimento FIM, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 PhD in Physics and Nanoscience
Dipartimento FIM, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Project title: “Multiscale modelling of tribological systems”
Nov 2013 – Jan 2014 Research Fellow
CNR Istituto di Nanoscienze S3, Italy
Oct 2010 – Apr 2013 Master Degree in Physics Final mark: 110 (out of 110)
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Thesis Title: Friction phenomena in the sliding of molecular layers between metallic surfaces
Sep 2007 – Oct 2010 Bachelor Degree in Physics Final mark: 110 cum laude (out of 110)
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Thesis Title: Plasmonic interaction in the Ag/MgO system
Oral presentations at Conferences
• 8th Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference, Dijon, France (2016)
• 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy (2018)
• 45th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Leeds, UK (2018)
• Materials.it, Bologna, Italy (2018)
• MM-Hub++ Conference, virtual (2021)
• BP-ICAM Annual Conference, virtual (2021)
• EMMC18, Oxford, UK (2022)
• 48th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Leeds, UK (2023)
• CMT@Brixen 2024, Brixen, Italy (2024)
• 49th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Lyon, France (2024)
National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale)
• Dec 2023 – present: Qualification for Associate Professorship in Theoretical Physics of Matter
(Sector 02/B2)
Supervision and Teaching
• 2026 – present: Lecturer and Marking for the Bachelor Degree in Industrial Chemistry and
Technologies of Materials (course in Physics) at Università di Bologna
• 2025 – present: Lecturer and Marking for the Bachelor Degree in Materials Science (course in
Materials for Energy) at Università di Bologna
• 2025 – present: Lecturer for the Professional Master programme in High Performance and
Quantum Computing (course in Materials Modelling and Design) at Università di Bologna
• 2024–2026: Lecturer in Computational Materials for the PhD courses in Physics and Nanoscience for Medicine and the Environment at Università di Bologna
•2023–2025: Lecturer and Marking for the Bachelor Degree in Natural Sciences (course in Physics) at Università di Bologna
• 2021-2022: Lecture and Marking for the Master Degree course in Nanomaterials at Imperial College
• MSSC 2020-2022 (CRYSTAL17 School): Tutoring on Magnetic Properties
• 2019-2022: Computational Lab, Math and Solid, Liquid and Interafces exercise tutoring activity for Chemistry Bachelor Degree students at Imperial College
• 2019-2020: Supervision of two Bachelor thesis projects at Imperial College
• 2017-2018: Supervision of one Master thesis project at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
• 2013-2018: Exercise tutoring activity for Chemistry and Engineering Bachelor Degree students at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Supervision
• 2023 – present: Co-supervision of one PhD, four Master and two Bachleror thesis projects at Università di Bologna
• 2019–2020: Co-supervision of two Bachelor thesis projects at Imperial College
• 2017–2018: Co-supervision of one Master thesis project at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Funding Secured
• HPC-Europa3 travel grant for visiting Imperial College London in 2019
• Principal Investigator in two Iscra B and three Iscra C projects to access CINECA HPC resources
• Principal Investigator in an EuroHPC Benchmark Access
Industrial Collaborations
• Collaborations with BP (2019–2022) to study corrosion reduction in pipelines
Member of Editorial Journal Office and Conference Committee
• Editorial Office: Guest Editor for the Special Issue First-Principles Simulation–Nano-Theory on Crystal, MDPI AG, ISSN 2073-4352
• Conference Scientific Committee: MSSC 2021 - Ab initio Modelling in Solid State Chemistry, London, UK (2021)
Personal Skills
• Advanced knowledge of C, C++, Fortran and Python code programming
• Experience in MPI and OpenMP parallel code programming
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (advanced), French and Spanish (beginner)
