Personal Information

Nationality: Italian

Date and Place of Birth: January 1984, Pinerolo (Torino), Italy

Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (professional use)

Education

2017:

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Program in Electronic Devices (Compagnia di San Paolo doctoral funding), Politecnico di Torino, Italy

2013:

M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

2009:

B.Sc. in Physics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2001:

Solfeggio diploma, Conservatorio di Torino, Italy

Current Positions

2023-present:

Senior Research Fellow at INFN for designing and characterizing monolithic CMOS sensors

2006-present:

Professional musician (composer, conductor, pianist)

Previous Positions

2020-2022:

Research Fellow at INFN Torino for developing and designing silicon particle detectors

2018-2020:

Researcher and Principal Investigator (PI) for the RSD project at INFN Torino

2019:

Visiting Researcher at the SSD-Lab at CERN, EP-DT (Experimental Physics, Detector Technology) Department

2017-2018:

Post-Doctoral Researcher in the field of silicon particle detectors at INFN Torino

Grants and Awards

2020:

Recipient of the “2020 IEEE NSS/MIC Trainee Grant” to attend the 2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (virtual)

2019:

Recipient of the “2019 IEEE NSS/MIC Trainee Grant” to attend the 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium in Manchester, UK

2018:

Recipient of the “2018 IEEE NSS/MIC Trainee Grant” to attend the 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium in Sydney, Australia

2017:

First ranked at the national call “2017 INFN Young Researchers Grant” to award projects funding

2014:

Recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by the Compagnia di San Paolo to fund the program on Electronic Devices

Responsibility Roles

2024:

Co-Chair/Convener of the simulation session at the 2nd DRD3 Collaboration Week at CERN

2024:

Invited speaker at the 11th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging (Pixel2024) in Strasbourg, France

2024:

Session co-Chair at the 2024 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD international conference in Tampa, USA

2024:

Thesis co-supervisor of a graduate student in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2024:

Chair/Convener of the simulation session at the 1st DRD3 Collaboration Week at CERN

2024:

Invited speaker at the 2024 International Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC 2024) in Marseille, France

2024-present:

Convener of the “WG 4 - Simulation” within the DRD3 Collaboration at CERN

2024-present:

INFN-Torino Contact Person for the WG 4 of the DRD3 Collaboration at CERN

2024-present:

Editor of the Special Topic “High-performance silicon sensors for particle tracking in 4 dimensions” of Frontiers in Physics

2023-present:

Member of the Associate Editor Board of the “Radiation Detectors and Imaging” Specialty Section of Frontiers in Physics

2018-present:

Reference person at INFN Torino for Modeling, Simulation and Layout Design of Particle Detectors and for Process Simulation

2017-present:

Reviewer for Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Computational Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Physica Status Solidi A, Journal of Instrumentation, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Frontiers in Physics and Micromachines

2021-2023:

Editor of the Special Topic “Physics-based numerical modeling and design of particle detectors” of Frontiers in Physics

2019-2022:

Stage/Thesis Supervisor of undergraduate students in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2018-2022:

Reference person of the Torino INFN Computational Cloud for RSD, UFSD and ARCADIA Experiments

2018-2020:

Head of the RSD project at INFN Torino

2019:

Representative speaker of the RD50 Collaboration at the CTD-WIT 2019 in Valencia, Spain

2018:

Local Committee Member at the 11th Workshop on Picosecond Timing Detectors for Physics and Applications (Torino, 16-18 May 2018)

Major Collaborations

2019-present:

Member of the ARCADIA and RD_MUCOL projects at INFN Torino

2016-present:

Member of CMS (until 2022), RD50, MUCOL, ALICE (from 2023) and DRD3 Collaborations at CERN

2018-2020:

Head of the RSD project at INFN Torino

2017-2022:

Member of the UFSD project and of FARE_R165XR8FRT and PRIN_2017L2XKJ Italian grants at INFN Torino

Teaching and Dissemination

2025:

Lecture on TCAD simualtions at the 2025 TCT School at CERN

2021:

Our first comprehensive book about fast silicon detectors has been published by Taylor & Francis

2020:

CERN Detector Seminar “Innovative silicon sensors for future trackers” about RSD

2019:

Ph.D. course (16 hours) on “Numerical simulation of silicon particle detectors” for physicists at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2019:

Seminar on the numerical simulation of silicon particle detectors for Master students in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2018:

Seminar on the numerical simulation of silicon particle detectors for Master students in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

2014:

Teaching Assistant (21 hours) of the laboratories on numerical simulation for Master students at Politecnico di Torino, Italy