Born in Brescia, Italy
Passport: Italian
Languages: Italian (MT), English, French

• CURRENT POSITION
• Associate Professor, University of Bologna, April 2021 - Permanent

• PAST
• Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, October 2020 - January 2021
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, October 2017 - September 2020
• Newton International Fellow in the Acoustics and Audio Group at the University of Edinburgh, March 2015 - March 2017
• Postdoctoral researcher at UME-ENSTA, February 2014 - February 2015

• EDUCATION
• 2010 - 2014: PhD Mechanical Engineering, ENSTA and École Polytechnique, Nonlinear vibrations of thin rectangular plates: A numerical investigation with application to wave turbulence and sound synthesis
• 2009 - 2010: Msc Acoustics and Music Technology, University of Edinburgh, Nonlinear plate vibrations: A modal approach
• 2004 - 2008: BSc Physics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Numerical integration and variable timestep: application to the two-body problem

• FUNDING
• 2021: ERC Starting Grant, awarded by The European Research Council (€1,500,000)
• 2017: Early Career Fellowship, awarded by The Leverhulme Trust (£100,000)
• 2015: Newton International Fellowship, awarded by The Royal Society and The British Academy (£100,000)
• 2010: EDX Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by École Polytechnique
• 2009: Jean Kennoway Howells Scholarship, awarded by University of Edinburgh
• 2007: Education Abroad Program Scholarship, awarded by Università degli Studi di Padova and University of California