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

2018-present:

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

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

2018-2022:

Head of the RSD project at INFN Torino

2019:

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

Commissions of Trust

2023-present:

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

2021-2023:

Guest Associate Editor of the Special Topic “Physics-based Numerical Modeling and Design of Particle Detectors” of Frontiers in Physics

2017-present:

Reviewer for Applied Physics Letters (APL), Journal of Computational Electronics (JCEL), IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Physica Status Solidi A (pssa), Frontiers in Physics and Micromachines

2018:

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

Major Collaborations and related Activities

2023-present:

Member of the ALICE Ecperiment at CERN

2017-2022:

Member of RSD, UFSD and ARCADIA experiments and of FARE and PRIN grants at INFN Torino

2016-2022:

Member of CMS Experiment and RD50 Collaboration at CERN

Teaching and Dissemination

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