Curriculum Vitae

Education & Positions

• 2019 - permanent Researcher, INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma c/o Department of Physics, Sapienza - University of Rome.

• 2018 - non-tenured Assistant Professor (RTD-A), Department of Physics, Sapienza - University of Rome.

• 2017 - Postdoc (research grant), INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma.

• 2014 to 2017 - Postdoc, Department of Physics, Sapienza - University of Rome.

• 2014 - PhD in Astronomy, Department of Physics, Sapienza - University of Rome.

• 2011 - Research fellow, INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma.

• 2010 - Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Sapienza - University of Rome.

Qualifications

• Qualified for Associate Professor position in experimental physics of fundamental interactions (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2020-2031 sett. conc. 02/A1).

• Qualified for Associate Professor position in astronomy, astrophysics, physics of Earth and planets (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2023-2034 sett. conc. 02/C1).

Awards

• Breakthrough Prize laureate in 2016 (Special Breakthrough Prize 2016 in fundamental physics).

• Gruber Cosmology Prize 2016 (along with LIGO and Virgo Collaboration).

• Einstein Medal 2017 (along with LIGO and Virgo Collaboration).

Scientific collaborations

• Virgo Scientific Collaboration - LVK, since 2010.

• Einstein Telescope Collaboration

• KAGRA Collaboration

• Archimedes Experiment

Coordination roles

• since 2024 group leader of the INFN ET Roma group.

• since 2024 Chair of the Speakers and Awards Committee of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration.

• since 2024 Coordinator of the Payload WP for Virgo in post-O5 (project Virgo_nEXT).

• since 2023 ET-Roma1 Research Unit Leader and member of the Collaboration Board in the Einstein Telescope collaboration. Roma Team Leader for RE43 at CERN.

• since 2023 co-chair of the Active Noise Mitigation division of the Instrument Science Board - Einstein Telescope.

• since 2022 co-chair of the Physical variables & Characterization division (WD1) of the Site Preparation Board - Einstein Telescope.

• 2021-2023 co-chair of the Newtonian Noise Cancellation WP1 within the Active Noise Mitigation - Instrument Science Board - Einstein Telescope.

• since 2019 coordinator of the seismic characterization of the Einstein Telescope candidate site in Sardinia.

• 2017-2019 - P.I. of the SIPS experiment, funded by INFN (grant 18771/2017).

My full CV is available here.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-0730

Ph.D. Thesis