About me

I am a junior Assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Bologna university. Before that, I have been a Gliese Fellow at the Institut for Theoretische Astrophysik in Heidelberg, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich for five years and at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille for one year.

I am originally from Italy and I obtained my PhD in 2015 from the University of Padova, working with Bepi Tormen.

My research focuses on the nature of dark matter and on the connection between computational astrophysics and observational data. I use numerical simulations to derive predictions and constrains on dark matter models, comparing them with observational probles, such as strong gravitational lensing.

Check out my full list of publicationss and my CV

Short CV

Research experience:

from February 2023: junior Assistant Professor - University of Bologna, Italy
2020 - 2023: Gliese Fellow - Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Heidelberg University, Germany
2016-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Munich, Germany
2015: Gini/OCEVU visiting researcher, Laboratoire d'Astrphysique de Marseille (LAM), France

Education:

2012-2015: PhD in Astronomy, Università degli Studi di Padova
Title: “Ellipsoidal collapse of dark matter haloes in cosmological simulations”
supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Tormen

2009-2011: Master degree in Astronomy (summa cum laude), Università degli Studi di Padova
2005-2008: Bachelor degree in Astronomy, Università degli Studi di Padova
2000-2005: Liceo Classico "Tito Livio", Padova

Publications:

10 first author papers with 498 citations
30 publications in total with 974 citations
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