Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- 2025 – 2028 Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Education
- 2021 – 2025 PhD in Theoretical Physics, summa cum laude — Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany
- Thesis: Ever more accurate effective-one-body waveforms for gravitational-wave astrophysics. Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Buonanno.
- 2018 – 2021 MSc in Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude — Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
- Thesis: Near-extreme Kerr magnetospheres. Supervisor: Prof. Marta Orselli.
- 2015 – 2018 BSc in Physics, 110/110 cum laude — Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
- Thesis: Relativistic hydrodynamics. Supervisor: Prof. Gianluca Grignani.
Collaboration memberships
- 2023 – LISA Consortium core member (2024–2026 member of the LISA Distributed Data Processing Center)
- 2022 – Einstein Telescope Collaboration member
- 2021 – LIGO Scientific Collaboration member
Collaboration roles
- 2026 – Coordinator of Division 8 (Waveforms), Einstein Telescope Collaboration Observational Science Board
Awards
- 2025 Poster prize winner, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting, Melbourne — Constraints on quasi-normal-mode frequencies from GWTC-4 observations
- 2016 – 2021 A.Di.S.U. scholarship, awarded consecutively for academic merit during Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Teaching
- 2022 Teaching assistant for Prof. Buonanno’s course on Gravitational Waves, Humboldt University, Berlin
Service
- 2023 – Referee for Physical Review D and Classical and Quantum Gravity
- 2023 – 2025 Organizer of the weekly LIGO science meetings at the AEI
- 2021 – 2025 Organizer of the weekly effective-one-body waveform-modeling meetings at the AEI
- 2024 Local organizing committee, Fundamental Physics Meets Waveforms With LISA Workshop
Outreach
- 2025 Sounds of Silence: Ten Years of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy — Berlin Lange Nacht der Astronomie 2025
- 2024 Deciphering Black Hole Symphonies: The New World of Gravitational Wave Astronomy — Berlin Science Week 2024
- Author of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA science summaries for GWTC-5.0: Tests of General Relativity and Black Hole Spectroscopy and Tests of General Relativity with GW250114
Open-source software
- pySEOBNR — accurate and efficient gravitational-wave models for compact-binary coalescences using the effective-one-body approach. Lead developer and maintainer.
- Dingo — parameter estimation of gravitational-wave data using neural posterior estimation. Developer.
- Contributor to public gravitational-wave data-analysis codes, including LALSuite, bilby, bilby_pipe, bilby_TGR, and PESummary.
Technical skills
Python, Cython, Mathematica, C/C++; HTCondor, Slurm, Git, LaTeX