Curriculum Vitae

You can download my full CV here (last updated on March 12th, 2024).

Research experience

Nov 2023 - present
Postdoctoral researcher
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
@ ECHO laboratory
Apr - Nov 2023
Research grant
Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
@ Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics
Sept - Dec 2022
Visiting Ph.D. student
AI Research Center, University of Tübingen, Germany
@ Self-organization and optimality in neuronal networks
June - July 2022
Visiting Ph.D. student
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
@ Division of Biological Physics

Education

Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
Ph.D in Physics cum laude, University of Padova
Thesis: Information and criticality in complex stochastic systems
Supervisors: Amos Maritan and Samir Suweis
Oct 2017 - Sept 2019
Master's degree in Physics, University of Padova
Thesis: Scaling and renormalization group for models of neural activity
Advisors: Amos Maritan and Samir Suweis
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude       GPA: 29.93/30
Sept 2018 - Jan 2019
Erasmus semester
Sorbonne University, Paris Diderot University, Paris-Sud University
ECTS GPA: A/A
Oct 2014 - July 2017
Bachelor's degree in Physics, University of Padova
Thesis: A Bayesian interpretation of quantum probability
Advisor: Pieralberto Marchetti
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude       GPA: 29.19/30

Publications & preprints

Organized conferences

Talks, presentations and posters

Attended schools and workshops

Honors and awards

  • Featured in the ``Top 100 papers in Neuroscience’’ published by Scientific Reports in 2022 for the paper “Disentangling the critical signatures of neural activity”
  • Graduate Alumni Award, best graduate student in the School of Science of the University of Padova
  • SECS grant, provided by the Young Researcher in Complex Systems Society.
  • Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion and Physics Viewpoint for the paper “Mutual information disentangles interactions from changing environments”
  • Best Poster Award at SMEEB 2021 for the poster “Modeling the emergence of scale-free fire outbreaks in Australia”

Supervision

  • Supervision of one student’s thesis for the Bachelor Degree in Physics, University of Padova, Italy.
  • Supervision of two student’s thesis for the Master Degree in Physics of Data, University of Padova, Italy.
  • Supervision of two students’ projects for the Master Degree in Physics of Data, University of Padova, Italy.

Teaching