In 2016 he joined the INFN, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (as a modelist of the physics of charge transport mechanisms in semiconductors and as expert in simulation and design of electronic devices), and CERN, within the CMS Experiment (for developing the MIP Endcap Timing Layer, ETL) and the RD50 Collaboration (for his contribution to the physics-based numerical analysis of charge multiplication mechanism in silicon).

Until 2017, he spent his post-doctoral activity in developing and designing the second, third and the fourth generation of Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD), i.e. particle detectors optimized for both spatial and time tracking. Then, in 2018, he won a Grant for young researchers funded by INFN concerning the R&D on Resistive AC-Coupled Silicon Detectors (RSD), an evolution of the UFSD concept based on the capacitive readout, which gets rid of all the segmentation implants and allows to reach a 100% fill-factor in the spatial reconstruction of tracks, while maintaining the optimal timing properties of standard UFSD.

As a PI of the RSD project, he co-authored a patent and leaded the production of two batches of RSD devices (RSD1, in 2019, and RSD2, in 2021), that are actually under test in some of the most important laboratories in the world. He currently works as senior research fellow at INFN in the design and characterization of LGAD-based monolithic CMOS pixel detectors for particle tracking within the ALICE3 Timing Layer Working Group at the ALICE Experiment and, in particular, for the ToF (Time-of-Flight) detector. Recently, he has also been appointed convener of the Working Group 4 (simulations) of the DRD3 Collaboration at CERN.

Besides the scientific career, he studied Composition, Orchestra Conduction and Piano at Conservatorio di Torino, starting a quite intense artistic activity, through which he collaborated with several important concertists and orchestras (see an example here). He authored several scores, spanning from chamber music to orchestral works, passing through the choral repertoire. In 2006, at the age of 22, he also wrote the two-act opera “Il frutto rapito” for soloists, choir and orchestra, that has been put for the first time on stage in 2010 under his conduction.

Being often the head of musical ensembles, as well as research teams, he developed strong attitudes for responsibility and leadership roles. Moreover, in the most recent part of his career he began to devote himself to teaching and dissemination on his research activity, providing in 2019 a Ph.D. course for physicists at Università degli Studi di Torino on the numerical simulation of silicon particle detectors, and also supervising several undergraduate and graduate students.

Author of more than 170 publications, including books, patents, journal papers and conference contributions, he has been Visiting Researcher at the Experimental Physics Department (Detector Technology division, EP-DT) of CERN, coordinating the RSD testing activities at the Solid State Detector Laboratory (SSD-Lab).