Personal data

Birthdate: January 16, 1973
Citizenship: Italian

Education

* PhD, Theoretical Physics, University of Perugia, Italy (01/11/’00 – 19/12/’03) .
* Specialization School in Medical and Environmental Physics, Master Degree – First year only; University of Florence, Italy (01/09/1999 – 31/10/2000).
* Bachelor Degree in Physics, University of Perugia, Italy. (01/11/1992 – 21/07/1999).
* Summer School in parallel processing, CINECA, Bologna; 2001.
* Course INFN-CNAF “advanced C programming under Linux”, Perugia; 2002.
* CINECA course: “Linux clusters: the openMosix approach”, Bologna; 2002.
* CINECA course: “Code optimization on IBM Power4”, Bologna; 2003.
* European DataGrid tutorial @ CERN, Geneva; 2003.

Research positions

* Research Staff “Primo Ricercatore” – CNR-IRPI, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazards, Perugia, Italy (current position)
* Research Staff – CNR-IRPI, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazards, Perugia, Italy (27/12/2018-31/12/2022)
* Fixed-term researcher – CNR-IRPI, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazards, Perugia, Italy (01/02/2017-26/12/2018)
* Post-Doc researcher – CNR-IRPI, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Hazards, Perugia, Italy (10/05/2012-31/01/2017)
* Post-Doc researcher – ECT* – European Centre for Theoretical studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas – Trento, Italy (1/09/2010-31/08/2012)
* Post-Doc researcher – Pennsylvania State University, USA (15/08/2008 – 14/08/2010).
* Post-Doc researcher – (INFN, Perugia) (15/12/2007 – 15/12/2008).
* Post-Doc researcher – University of Perugia, Italy (1/11/2003 – 31/10/2007).

Detailed work experience

1999
Internship at the Medical Physics Department of the Perugia Hospital while student in Medical Physics School at University of Florence; worked on radiotherapy planning, developing software for building patient-custom three-dimensional screens for radiotherapy cancer treatment.

2000-2003
During PhD, worked on many-body theories in nuclear physics. Responsible of the computational facilities of the theory group; designed and built a PC cluster; implemented many-body algorithms for the description of electron-nucleus interactions. Off-classes teaching assistant for about three years, for the basic courses of physics diploma.

2003-2008
Affiliated to INFN while post-doc at University of Perugia; worked on the integration of the local nuclear physics group experience on nuclear reactions with few-body systems to the many-body systems domain. 2008-2010
Started a long-term project for an event-by-event  Monte Carlo description of proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions, with the inclusion of detailed nuclear effects in the production of nuclear configurations used to initiate general purpose physics analysis both from theoretical and experimental sides.

2010-2012
Affiliated to ECT*/FBK, Trento, under the FP7 HadronPhysics2 infrastructure. Further developed the two basic research lines initiated at Univ. of Perugia (Italy) and Penn State University (USA). Participated the research activities of the Centre by joining several of the locally organized workshops; joined the activity of an ECT* senior researcher for the theoretical investigation of fundamental hadronic interaction, on the topic of gluon saturation. Implementation of a few complex algorithms within the AuroraScience computing project.  Started collaborations with University of Jyvaskyla (FI), IRRNE (BG) and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (DE), which ended with a job offer.

mid 2012-present
Joined the Geomorphology group of the CNR Research Institute for Hydrogeological hazard Protection of National Research Council, in Perugia, Italy. Developed on a physically based model for rainfall-induced landslide forecast, collaboration with US Geological Survey; implemented parallel execution systems for Geo-Spatial processing. Refereed for APS Physical Review and other other journals. Co-supervised a bachelor degree thesis at Uniersity of Perugia. Published papers in Geomorphology and Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Collaborations with Unites States Geological Survey, University of Vienna, University of Strasbourg, University of New South Wales, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Pennsylvania State University and University of Perugia & INFN.

Grants and Awards:

* National Research Council “ACTIONS – pollinAtors eCosystem healTh indicator Of aNtropic pressure”, role: co-PI, 2025-2027
* Partnership RETURN, funded by European Union “VIGIT-R – Versatile Implementation of Ground Instabilities in RETURN”, role: PI, 07/2025-12/2025
* Partnership RETURN, funded by European Union – “HySCT – Hydrology and Stability of slopes along Transport Corridors”, role: PI, 06/2024-08/25
* Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN2022 “URGERE: URban Geodiversity for a Resilient Environment”, role: PI, 2023-2025
* Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research program “Rientro dei Cervelli” – Three-years award (tax exemption) for reintegration of researchers working abroad, 2010-2012
* ”Abilitazione Scientifica 2012”, granting access to Associate Professor selections in  Italian Universities; Theoretical Physics. Valid until 2018
* Grant “short mobility” from Italian Reseach Council; at USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center in Golden (CO, USA) (02/11/2014-23/11/2014); Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, (June 2016 and June 2023)