Employment History
- Dec. 2020 – present: Postdoctoral fellow, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Dec. 2020 – present: Visiting Scholar, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfats, UK
- Dec. 2018 – Dec. 2020: Marie Curie Research Fellow, QTeQ group, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
- Mar. 2017 – Dec. 2018: Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – IQOQI , Vienna, Austria
- Nov. 2016 – Mar. 2017: Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Optics and National Research Council – CNR-INO , Florence, Italy
- 2016 – 2017: Visiting Scientist in the Astroparticle Physics group, International School for Advanced Studies – SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
Habilitation for professorship
• 2022: Italian Habilitation for Professorship (“Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale”), Associate professor in Theoretical Physics (ASN, sector FIS02/A2).
Education
- 2012-2016: Ph.D. cum laude in Astroparticle Physics, SISSA, Trieste
Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Liberati - 2010-2012: M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, University of Pavia, Pavia.
Grade: 110/110 cum laude. Supervisor: Prof. G.M. D’Ariano
Co-supervisor: Dr. P. Perinotti - 2007-2012: Diploma IUSS, IUSS (School for Advanced Studies) Pavia, Pavia.
Grade: Excellent. Supervisor: Dr. C. Dappiaggi
Co-supervisor: Prof. G. Goggi - 2007-2012 Alumnus, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
- 2007-2010 B.Sc. in Physics, University of Pavia, Pavia.
Grade: 110/110 cum laude. Supervisor: Prof. B. Pasquini
Honors, Awards,Funding, and Measures of Esteem
- Article among the Nature Communications 2020 Top 50 Physics Articles, Title: Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events in the presence of gravitating quantum systems, Co-authors: E. Castro-Ruiz, F. Giacomini, C. Brukner (2021).
- Contribution to the submission of the REF21 for the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen’s University Belfast.
- 2020: Editors’ suggestion article in Phys. Rev. Lett.,Title: Experimental assessment of entropy production in a continuously measured mechanical resonator, Co-authors: M. Rossi, L. Mancino, G. T. Landi, M.Paternostro, A. Schliesser.
- 2019: Editors’ suggestion article in Phys. Rev. A, Title: Talbot–Lau effect beyond the point-particle approximation, Co-authors: G. Gasbarri, R. Kaltenbaek, H. Ulbricht, M. Paternostro.
- 2019: First prize essay in the Gravity Research Foundation 2019 Essays on Gravitation, Amount: $4000.
- 2018: Marie–Curie Individual Fellowship, Amount: euro 183000, to be started in December.
- 2018: COST action CA15220, grant for a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at Queen’s University Belfast, Amount: euro 638 .
- 2016: CNR-INO Postdoctoral fellowship, Amount: euro 19000.
- 2016: Winner of the award “Giuliano Toraldo di Francia” of the Italian Society of Physics (SIF) for the scientific career, Amount: e2000, SIF awards 15 of these prizes.
- 2014: COST action MP1006, grant for a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at Imperial College London, Amount: £1300.
- 2012-2016: PhD scholarship at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Amount: euro 60000 (over 4 years).
- 2007-2012: IUSS scholarship, Science and Technology class, Amount: euro 10000 (over 5 years).
- 2012: Winner of a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to spend three weeks in Malta for an English course.
- 2009: Winner of the scholarship “Ida Beltrami” from the Aurelio Beltrami Foundation (FAB), Amount: euro 3000, FAB appointed 5 scholarship in 2009.
- 2007: Award “In Studii Laus” of the Rotary Club and Rotaract of Senigallia.
Talks and Seminars
- Invited speaker to 16 international conferences and workshops
- Invited speaker to 18 seminars in internationally recognized universities and research institutes
- 15 contributed talks presented at international conferences and workshops
- 6 posters presented at international conferences and workshops
Invited:
- 28 September 2022: School in memory of Prof. Ghirardi, Trieste, Italy, Title: Testing the quantum nature of gravity in the lab
- 02 June 2021, Quantum Reference Frames, Indefinite Causal Structure, and Gravity Workshop, Banff International Research Station, Alberta, USA, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 26 April 2021, The Quantum & The Gravity 2021, International Workshop Online, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 5 August 2020, UniKORN seminars series of the British Optomechanical Research Network, Title: Optomechanics meets Thermodynamics: Experimental assessment of entropy production in a continuously measured mechanical resonator
- 28-29 April 2020: online mini-workshop on Quantum Gravity Phenomenology, Title: Informational Content of the Gravitational Field of a Quantum Superposition
- 19 September 2019: Redefining the foundations of physics in the quantum technology era, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Title: Near Field Interferometry with Large Particles
- 11 April 2019: Next steps MAQRO/QPPF meeting, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Title: Talbot Effect beyond Rayleigh Approximation
- 11-13 February 2019: Primordial black holes, de Sitter space and quantum tests of gravity, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 21 September 2018: The Universe as a Quantum Lab, Paris, France, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 31 May 2018: Interplay of quantum information, foundations and gravity, Wien, Austria, Title: Entanglement Entropy for Quantum Fields on Discrete Spacetime
- 2 February 2018: TEQuantum kick-off meeting, Trieste, Italy, Title: A puzzle in between gravity and quantum
- 13 July 2017: Probing the spacetime fabric: from concepts to phenomenology, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, Title: Probing Spacetime Non-Locality with Quantum Systems
- 8 September 2015: Prospects for Causal Set Quantum Gravity, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK, Title: Universality of Causet d’Alembertians in curved spacetime and the mass operator problem
- 3 June 2015: Astro@TS , Trieste, Title:Causal–set non-locality
- 15 December 2014: Emergent Time and Emergent Space in Quantum Gravity Workshop, AEI Potsdam, Title:Emergent Gravity: the Analogue Gravity Perspective
Contributed:
- 9 September 2022: RQI-N 2022, Online conference, Title: Influence of cosmological expansion in local experiments
- 8 July 2022: GR23, Online conference, Title: Influence of cosmological expansion in local experiments
- 07 April 2021: RQI-N21, Online conference, Title: Quantum Temporal Superposition: the case of QFT
- 11 September 2019: IQIS19, Milan, Italy, Title: Entropy Production in Continuously Measured Quantum Systems
- 29 July 2019: Taming Non-Equilibrium Systems: from Quantum Fluctuation to Decoherence, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Title: Entropy Production in Continuously Measured Quantum Systems
- 25 July 2019: Trieste Junior Quantum Days, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Title: Near Field Interferometry with Large Particles
- 8 November 2018: TEQuantum meeting, Delft, Netherlands, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 4 October 2018: Progress and Visions in Quantum Theory in View of Gravity: Bridging foundations of physics and mathematics, Leipzig, Germany, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 23 March 2018: QTSpace workshop, Bratislava, Slovakia, Title: Test of nonlocality via nonrelativistic quantum systems
- 4 July 2017: Relativistic Quantum Information North, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, Title: Phenomenology of Non-Local Theories via Unruh–DeWitt Detectors
- 23 June 2016: Relativistic Quantum Information North, IQC Waterloo, Title: Phenomenology of discrete spacetime
- 19 August 2015: Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity II, Perimeter Institute, Title: Analogue Gravity: towards dynamics in analogue systems
- 20 July 2015: Quantum Gravity Meeting, Rome, Title: Causal–set theory, non–locality and phenomenology
- 14 July 2015: Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting – MG14, Rome, Title: Causal–set theory, non–locality and phenomenology
- 08 September 2014: Conceptual and Technical Challenges for Quantum Gravity, Rome, Title: Emergent gravitational dynamics from relativistic Bose-Einstein condensate
Seminars:
- 28 January 2022: invited seminar at University of Southampton, UK, Title: Can we probe the quantum nature of gravity with home-made experiments?, Host: Prof. Morris
- 25 October 2021: invited seminar at the Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore, Title: Can we probe the quantum nature of gravity with home-made experiments?, Host: Prof. Scarani
- 14 April 2021: invited seminar at the UCL Foundations Reading Group, UCL, London, UK, Title: Entropy Production, Quantum Measurements and Some Collision
- 01 March 2021: invited seminar at ZARM Bremen, Germany, Title: Quantum Superposition of Massive Objects and the Quantization of Gravity
- 13 November 2019: talk given at the Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, Title: Entropy Production in Continuously Measured Quantum Systems. Host: Prof. Schliesser
- 19 May 2019: talk given at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, Title: Gravitational Life of a Schrödinger Cat. Host: Prof. Lutz
- 9 May 2019: talk given at the University College London, UK, Title: Gravitational Life of a Schrödinger Cat. Host: Prof. Bose
- 17 April 2019: talk given at the University of Pavia, Italy, Title: Gravitational Life of a Schrödinger Cat. Host: Prof. Dappiaggi
- 26 March 2018: talk given at the Quantum Technology Group, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, Title: Sewing gravity and quantum. Host: Prof. Paternostro
- 8 November 2017: talk given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Title: Non-Local Field Theories: from theory to phenomenology. Host: Prof. Eichhorn
- 29 March 2017: talk given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Title:Discrete spacetime phenomenology. Host: Prof. Rabl
- 17 November 2016: talk given at Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria, Title: Optomechanical studies of discrete spacetime phenomenology. Host: Prof. Brukner
- 24 August 2016: talk given at the Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, Title: Exploring spacetime phenomenology. Host: Prof. Paternostro
- 20 May 2016: talk given at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, Title: Exploring spacetime phenomenology. Host: Dr. Weinfurtner
- 13 March 2016: talk given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, Title: Discrete spacetime phenomenology. Host: Prof. Briegel
- 13 November 2015: talk given at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria, Title: Phenomenology of discrete spacetime. Host: Prof. Fuentes
- 29 October 2014: talk given at the morning breakfast meeting of the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group at Imperial College London, Title: Introduction to Analogue Models. Host: Prof. Dowker
Poster Presentations:
- 05 October 2022: Quantum sensors and tests of new physics (QSNP), Hannover, Germany, Title: Influence of cosmological expansion in local experiments
- 06 October 2021: presented at the QTD2021 conference, online conference, Title: Informational steady-states and conditional entropy production in continuously monitored systems
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20 February 2020: presented at the QQQ workshop, University of Milan, Italy, Title: Entropy Production in Continuously Measured Quantum Systems
- 11 December 2017: presented at the Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society conference, Royal Society, London, UK, Title: Aspects of Entanglement Entropy in discrete spacetime theories
- 4 July 2017: presented at the Relativistic Quantum Information North conference, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, Title: Phenomenology of Non-Local Theories via Unruh–DeWitt Detectors
- 1 June 2017: presented at the Central European Quantum Information Processing conference (CEQIP) conference, Smolenice, Slovakia, Title: Tests of Quantum Gravity induced Non-locality via Opto-mechanical Quantum Oscillators
Conferences and Seminars Organization
- 2021-2022: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Quantum Thermodynamics Conference (QTD2022), 27 June – 1 July 2022, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
- 2020: Organizer of the QTSpace COST-Action Ljubljana school on Quantum Technologies in Space, 28-31 January, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2017-2018: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the conference Relativistic Quantum Information North 2018, 24-27 September, Vienna
- 2017: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the conference Probing the spacetime fabric: from concepts to phenomenology, 10-14 July 2017, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- 2015-2016: Co-organizer of the Gravity Group Journal Club, SISSA.
- 2014: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the workshop Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity, 1-5 September 2014, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Referee and Editorial Activity
- Referee for peer-reviewed journals: New Journal of Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Physics Letters A, Europhysics Letters, Journal of High Energy Physics, and Physical Review journals. Publons profile can be found here
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Analogue Gravitational Dynamics of the journal Applied Sciences, to appear in 2021
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Optomechanical Systems for Fundamental Physics of the journal Entropy, to appear in 2021.
Teaching
- 2022 Lecturer for a 30-hours course (3 ECTS), Topic: Selected Topics in Quantum Thermodynamics, Ergänzungsmodul for the BSc in Physics and the Advanced Quantum Physics (AQP) Master of Science. Summer semester 2022, University of Tübingen
Student Supervision
- 2021-2022: Co-Supervisor, Ph.D. candidate Felix Spengler, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Topic: Relativistic Quantum Metrology.
- 2019-2021: Co-Supervisor, Ph.D. candidate Marta Maria Marchese, Queen’s University Belfast, Topic: Exploring the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics via Optomechanical Systems. Dr. Marchese is currently a postdoc in the UK
- 2019-2020: Co-Supervisor, M.Sc. Sheron Blair, Queen’s University Belfast, Topic: Out-of-equilibrium Fluctuation-dissipation Theorems for Continuous Variable Quantum Systems.
M.Sc. Blair is currently a Ph.D. student at Queen’s University Belfast
Participation in Research Projects
- 2022-present: Member of the recently funded H2020-EIC project QuCoM – Quantum Control of Gravity with Levitated Mechanics, HORIZON EIC Grants, Project number: 101046973; PI: Prof. Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste).
- 2021-present: Member of the MAQRO (Macroscopic Quantum Resonator) consortium,
Lead Proposer: Prof. Rainer Kaltenbaek (University of Ljubljana, IQOQI – Vienna). - 2018-present: Member of the European FET project TEQ – Testing the large-scale limit of Quantum Mechanics, EXCELLENT SCIENCE – Future and Emerging Technologies (FET),
Grant agreement ID: 766900; PI: Prof. Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste). - 2018-2021 Member of the COST Action CA15220 QTSpace – Quantum Technologies in Space, PI: Prof. Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste).
- 2015-2017: Member of the Templeton project Probing the emergent spacetime fabric: from theory to phenomenology, PI: Prof. Stefano Liberati (SISSA).
Outreach activities
- 2021: Remote online participation to the SISSA for the Schools outreach program
- 2019: Administrator of the website and social media of pERFEcTO. I designed, administer, and update the website, as well as the social media pages (facebook and twitter) for my Marie Curie research project pERFEcTO, http://web.am.qub.ac.uk/wp/perfecto/.
- 2016: Speaker at TriesteNext Science Festival, I have delivered two interactive seminars for the general public about Einstein and the discovery of Gravitational Waves
- 2016: Attended the JCOM MasterClasses, Topic: Facilitating the debate on the scientific and technological progress.
- 2015: Speaker at TriesteNext Science Festival, I have delivered two interactive seminars for the general public about the Strange World of Quantum Mechanics.
- 2015: I have participated to the regional phase of FameLab, which is a communications competition designed to engage and entertain by breaking down science, technology and engineering concepts into three-minute presentations.
- 2014-2016: Guide and science communication for schools visiting SISSA for the program SISSA for the Schools, I have delivered 7 interactive lecture for primary, middle and high school students on topics ranging from quantum mechanics to black holes and wormholes. Furthermore, I have been a guide for the exhibition
The history of the Universe held at SISSA.
Languages
- Italian. Native Mother Tongue
- English. Very good command Daily practice, all work performed in English;
- German. Beginner 2017, Sprachenzentrum Universitat Wien (Level A2 in the CEFR);
- Spanish. Basic communication skills 2011, Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera (Level A2 in the CEFR);
IT Skills
- Windows Operating systems, Linux, macOS: good knowledge
- Microsoft Office: good knowledge
- LATEX typesetting language: working experience
- Wolfram Mathematica: good knowledge
- Python, MATLAB, Qiskit: intermediate knowledge
- HTML, CSS, SQL, C, C++: basic knowledge
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