I obtained my PhD in Physics cum laude at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics of the University of Padova (Italy) under the supervision of Amos Maritan and Samir Suweis, with a particular focus on how the physics of phase transition and critical systems can be applied to the study of living systems. I then moved to the ECHO lab of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) for a postdoc with Andrea Rinaldo.

I was awarded the Giovanni Paladin Award during the inaugural cerimony of the 29th International Conference on Statistical Physics for the best PhD thesis in Statistical Physics. I received the Graduate Alumni Award from the University of Padova for the best graduate student in the School of Science. In 2024, I was selected by the journal Entropy as one of the outstanding reviewers of the year.

I have been a Visiting Scientist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Onna, Japan and at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. I was an affiliate of the Padova Neuroscience Center (Italy) and a visiting PhD student at the AI center of the University of Tübingen (Germany). I have been a member of the Complex System Society, the Italian Society of Physics, the Italian Society of Statistical Physics, and the American Physical Society.

Collaboration network

This is my collaboration network. Each node is either a co-author, a preprint or a journal article; the size of a co-author’s node grows with the number of papers we wrote together. Hover on a node to see who or what it is, and click on it for more information.

Talks & contributions

The markers on the map represent a conference, workshop, or institute where I presented my work, either invited talks or contributed talks and posters, together with the schools and workshops I attended and my research visits. Click on a marker for more information.