Place and date of birth: Genoa, 07-12-1970

Current position: associate professor

Education:

- Laurea in Fisica (U. Genoa, 13-07-1994), 110/110 e lode

- Ph. D. in Physics (U. Genoa, 02-02-1999)
Thesis: Topological Field Theories and Strings;
Advisors: Prof. Carlo M. Becchi.

Academic career:

- Post-doctoral fellow (Harvard University) 1999;
- Research associate (U. Lecce) 2000;
- Research associate (U. Genoa) 2000-03;
- INFN Post-doctoral fellow (The Ohio State University) 2003-05;
- Post-doctoral fellow (The Ohio State University) 2005-06;
- Post-doctoral fellow (U. Toronto) 2006-07;
- Post-doctoral fellow (IPhT, CEA/Saclay) 2007-09;
- Post-doctoral fellow (LPTHE, U. Paris 6) 2009-10;
- Non-permanent researcher (U. Genoa) 2010-11.
- Permanent researcher (U. Padua) 2011-2014.

Research areas:

- Black holes in String Theory;
- Exact solutions in Supergravity;
- Holography.

Teaching:

- Electromagnetic Fields (U. Padua) 2011-2018;
- Quantum Physics for Astronomers (U. Padua) 2015-2018;
- Physics for Informatics, Engineers, Pharmacy (U. Padua) 2014-2017;
- String Theory, for the Ph.D. in Physics (U. Padua) 2011-12, 2015-2017;
- Introduction to String Theory (Scuola Galileiana, U. Padua) 2014-15, 2017-18;
- Relativistic Theoretical Physics, teaching assistant (U. Padua) 2010-11;
- Theoretical Physics, teaching assistant (U. Genoa) 2000-03.

Thesis supervised

- Bachelor: Carlo De Toni (2012), Riccardo Bergamin (2013), Arianna Renzini (2014), Giovanni Francesco Bertacco (2015), Francesco Stampa (2016), Giovanni Pierobon (2017), Giovanni Ferrari (2018);
- Master: Matteo Baggioli (U. Genoa, 2012), Luca Mattiello (2014), Paolo Milan (2014), Sami Rawash (2017); Giulia Fardelli (2018);
- Ph. D.: Andrea Galliani (2015-18), Alessandro Bombini (2016-19).

Seminars at international conferences (last 5 years):

- 18th Itzykson conference, Saclay, France, 07/2013;
- Exotic Structures of Spacetime, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, 03/2014;
- Workshop on holography, gauge theory and black holes, STAG Research Centre, Southampton, UK, 04/2014;
- Black Objects Beyond Supersymmetry, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 09/2014;
- Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil, 06/2015;
- Microstructures of Black Holes, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, 11/2015;
- New Developments in AdS3/CFT2 Holography, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, 04/2017;
- New flows and old black holes: Adventures in quantum gravity and holography, IPhT, CEA/Saclay, France, 06/2017.

Organization of conferences:

- XVII European Workshop on String Theory, Padua, 2011;
- The supersymmetric, the extremal and the ugly - solutions in string theory, IPhT, CEA, Saclay, 2011;
- Supergravity 2015 e 2017, Padua.

Funding:

- PRIN 2009: Simmetrie dell’Universo e delle Interazioni Fondamentali, participant;
- Progetto di Ateneo (U. Padova): Interplay between strings, branes, back holes and field theory dualities, participant;;
- Progetto di Ateneo (U. Padova): New approaches to Quantum Gravity, PI.
- INFN “Iniziativa specifica” Gss: local coordinator of the Padua group from 2012 to 2017.

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