Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) in Physics Education, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, since 2024.

Previous positions:
2021-2024 Junior Researcher (RTD-a), DFA
2017-2021 Research fellow, Physics Education, DFA
2013-2017 Research fellow, Research Group on Nanodevices, DFA

Education:
2013 PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, UniPD
2009 Master’s Degree in Physics, UniPD (joint thesis project with KU Leuven and IMEC - International Micro Electronic Center, Leuven, Belgium)
2007 Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, UniPD

Funded research projects in physics education:
2023- Local PI - PRIN 2022 "ADELANTE - Adopting Digitally-Enhanced LAboratories in a Network of TEachers"
2024- Steering committee - ToPLab (The Open Physics Laboratory) departmental project
2024- "Going beyond: new challenges for teaching physics" (AI for physics teaching and learning, project for teaching improvement)
2023-24 "Preparing for societal challenges through Active Learning" (project for teaching improvement)
2024 "Mentoring Growth: cultivating the Next Generation of STEM Educators through Collaborative Research", joint “grow” initiative with Monash University, 2024 funding scheme
2021-23 PI - "ATENA - Asiago TEachers Network on Astrophysics" (BIRD project)
2021-22 "Virtual School", joint "seed" initiative with Monash University
2021-22 "Smartphysics", joint with City University of New York, “Shaping a World-class University - Seed funding for Digitalization & Innovation”, 2021 funding scheme
2020-21 EU project CALOHE2 - Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe - Phase 2

Research projects in other fields:
2015-16 SECARS - Development of SECARS (Surface-Enhanced Coherent Antistokes Raman Scattering) substrates for bio sensing (joint project UniPD-PoliMI).
2015-16 DYCENDI - DYnamics of CEllular Networks in DIabetes mellitus: an in vivo approach.
2013-15 VORTEX - VOrticity of em-Radiation: Tools for EXperiments.
2010-13 SPLENDID - Surface Plasmons for Enhanced Nano Detectors and innovative Devices.
2020-21 PLATFORMS - PLAsmonic nano-Textured materials and architectures FOR Molecular Sensing.

Teaching activity (university courses):
2024- Teaching and Learning Physics (MSc Physics) and Fundamentals and didactics of physics (MSc Primary Education)
2024- Didattica della Fisica (mod. 1 and 2); Insegnamento integrato di matematica e fisica (Percorsi 60 cfu - Initial Teacher Training)
2022-24 Physics 1 (BSc Mechanical Engineering)
2021-23 Teaching and Learning Physics at University (PhD school in Physics)
2017-18 Collaboration in the organisation and delivery of the course "Methods and tools for physics education" for preservice secondary school teachers
2014-2021 Teaching and laboratory assistant, course “Fundamentals and didactics of physics”, degree course in Primary Education
2016-17 Teaching assistant, Physics 1 course for Construction Engineering/Architecture
2012-13 Junior teaching assistant for physics courses of the School of Science (Materials Science, Natural Sciences)

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