Curriculum

Professional Experience.

• RTDB Researcher, University of Bari, Italy, 02/2022 - present
• RTDA researcher, University of Bari, Italy, 07/2019 - 02/2022
• Post-Doc at Temple University, ICMS, Philadelphia, USA, 02/2018 - 07/2019

Education

• PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems (with honors), SISSA, Trieste, Italy, 10/2017
• Master's degree in Theoretical Physics, University of Bari, Italy 04/2013 (110/110 with honors)

Awards

• Winner of the European fellowship "Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions call H2020- MSCA-IF-2018 for individual fellowships" in 2019
• Award for the best doctoral thesis in the area of Physics at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, 11/2018

Research Grants

• 2023-2025: PON 2022HNW5YL "Motility and communication in active matter (MOCA): from aggregation in quorum sensing to signal transmission in biofilms" as local PI of the project.

Invited talks

• "Topological friction in nanopore translocation," Nanofluids23, Lyon, France 2023
• "DNA supercoiling: statistical physics, theoretical models and experiments." Santadi 2023
• "Ion channels in critical membranes: Clustering, cooperativity and memory effects" Young Seminars SIFS, online, 2023
• "Topological friction in nanopore translocation" CECAM Flagship workshop on "Nanopore Translocation and Nanochannel Confined Biopolymers," SISSA, Trieste, 2021
• "Accessibility of endonuclease to DNA origami: role of local and global fluctuations" oxDNA users and developers workshop 2019, University of Oxford, England, 2019
• "Pore translocation of knotted DNA rings" Self-Assembly, Recognition and Applications, University of Lincoln, UK, 2017

Selected talks

• Biophysical Society 67th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2023
• Active days EUTOPIA Challenges in Active Matter, Paris, France, 2022
• Italian Soft Days 2022, Bari, Italy, 2022
• Topology, Physics, and Chemistry of Soft Matter: EUTOPIA-IV, Trento, Italy, 2022
• Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA, 2019
• FISMAT 2017, Trieste, Italy, 2017
• APS March Meeting 2017, New Orleans, USA, 2017
• Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 2017
• APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, USA, 2016
• FISMAT 2015, Palermo, Italy, 2015

Peer-review activities

I have peer-reviewed scientific articles for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review E, Soft Matter, Scientific Reports.

Teaching activities.

Courses as a main lecturer:

• Molecular dynamics, from 2020 to present, for the master's degree program in theoretical physics.
• Statistical physics, from 2023 to present, for the bachelor's degree program in physics.
• Physics II, from 2020 to 2023, for the bachelor's degree program in environmental science.