About

My background is in Physics and Astrophysics.

I started my scientific education at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in Italy, where I got both my bachelor degree in Physics (2013) and my master degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics (2015) under the supervision of Massimo Dotti and Alessia Gualandris. In 2016, the thesis and research developed during my master was awarded the prestigious Magini Prize.

In October 2015 I started my PhD at the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova under the supervision of Michela Mapelli, working on the dynamics of stars in galactic nuclei within the ForDyS group. During both my master and PhD, I spent a total of 16 months at the University of Surrey (UK), where I worked with Alessia Gualandris and Justin Read, investigating the dynamics of supermassive black hole binaries in stellar systems. My PhD thesis was awarded the prestigious Gratton Prize, and received an honourable mention from the GWIC-Braccini committee.

After my PhD, I spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Science of the University of Zurich, working in the group led by Lucio Mayer on the evolution of supermassive binaries in the ancient Universe, and on extreme mass ratio inspirals.

Since November 2020, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in the B Massive group led by Alberto Sesana, and I continue my work on the dynamics of supermassive binaries, tidal disruption events, extreme mass ratio inspirals.