Education and academic studies
PhD student in Physics at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Research project: An interdisciplinary approach bridging physics and anthropology to integrate the socio-political complexity of the energy transition into science education for sustainability, fostering future-oriented agency
Supervisor: prof. Olivia Levrini
Starting November 2024
Visiting PhD student at University of Cagliari (Italy)
Visual Ethnography Laboratory of the Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage
Supervisor: prof. Francesco Bachis
29 September 2025 – 09 December 2025
BA candidate in Philosophy
University of Bergamo
Thesis: An anthropological perspective on social tensions arising from energy transition policies in Sardinia
Postgraduate diploma in Didactic Innovation in Physics (2015)
University of Udine (Master IDIFO4)
Thesis: A quantum mechanics teaching approach based on experiments with polaroid filters
Postgraduate degree in Secondary Education (2007)
University of Milan (SILSIS-MI)
Thesis: Teaching algebraic structures through the classification of frieze symmetries
Master’s Degree in Physics (2005)
University of Insubria – Como
Thesis: Experimental validation of the reproducibility of dose distribution foreseen by a three-dimensional calculation algorithm for electron beam therapy (research conducted at St. Anna Hospital, Como)
Participation at Conferences
SIF - Società Italiana di Fisica - 111° National Conference
Presentation: Integrating physics education into an interdisciplinary framework to address the social challenges of the ecological transition (Casalone, Levrini)
Palermo (Italy), 22-26 September 2025
ESERA - European Science Education Research Association
Presentation: From instrumental to communicative rationality: reimagining science education for sustainability in socio-political conflicts (Casalone, Levrini)
Copenhagen (Denmark), 25-29 August 2025
ESERA SIG 8 - Futures-oriented Science Education
First International Conference
Bologna (Italy), 27 February - 1 March 2025
Seminars
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Bologna
Science education and anthropological field research: an interdisciplinary analysis of the social tensions generated by the energy transition in Sardinia
Bologna (Italy), 21 January 2026
Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage, University of Cagliari
Seminar for the course of Anthropology of Globalization
Science education challenged by the energy transition: critical perspectives from anthropological inquiry
Cagliari (Italy), 9 December 2025
Department of Physics, University of Cagliari
Integrating physics education into an interdisciplinary framework to address the challenges of the ecological transition
Cagliari (Italy), 25 November 2025
Past and current roles
- Editorial Board Member, "Giornale di Fisica" (SIF) (2025-present)
- Scientific Director, "Federico Cesi" School of Physics Education (2024-present)
- Science Education Lead, Territorial School Office in Lecco (2023–2024)
- High school maths and physics teacher (2004-2023)
Award
Awarded by CERN Italian Teacher Programme in recognition of an educational project on particle physics (Geneva, 4 October 2018)
