Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

  • 2024–current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Education

  • 2020–2024: Ph.D. in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany.
    Supervisor: J. Gair.
    Thesis: Advancing Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Novel Methodologies for Data Analysis and Waveform Modelling of Nanohertz and Millihertz Signals.
    Final Grade: Summa cum laude.
  • 2018–2020: Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
    Final degree grade: 1.0 (highest grade).
    Supervisors: J. Gair, M. Bartelmann.
    Thesis: Effective Resonance Model: a small step for the constants of motion, a giant leap for biases in EMRI parameter estimation.
  • 2015–2018: Bachelor’s degree in Physics, University of Trento, Italy.
    Final degree grade: 110/110.
    Thesis: Analyzing Gravitational Waves through Numerical Simulations of Compact Binaries.

Fellowships, Awards & Grants

  • Space Faculty Grant 25k. Modernizing LISA Data Analysis: Machine Learning meets Bayesian Statistics (2025)
  • Stefano Braccini PhD Thesis Prize, GWIC (2025)
  • ESA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024)
  • Burke Institute Prize Fellowship, Caltech (declined, 2024)
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program (declined, 2024)
  • Merit Award, University of Trento (2019)
  • Erasmus+ Programme Scholarship, University of Oslo (2023)

Memberships

  • LISA Consortium (since 2020)
  • Distributed Data Processing Center (since 2024)
  • European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration (since 2020)
  • International Pulsar Timing Array collaboration (since 2020)

Full Publication & Presentation Lists