Education and titles:
• January 2014: habilitation for Associate Professor (02/A2) from the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
• January 2002 - December 2004: Ph.D. student in Physics (XVII cycle) at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. March 2005, Ph.D. diploma in Physics
Thesis: Compact Stars: structure and stability. Tutor: Dr. Alessandro Drago
• October 1996 - July 2001: Student in Physics at the University of Lecce, Italy. Master diploma in Physics (110/110 magna cum laude) at University of Lecce, Italy.
Thesis: ”Luminescenza indotta da microscopio a scansione ad effetto
tunnel su una struttura a quantum dots”. Tutor Prof.ssa Rosaria Rinaldi.
• September 1991 - July 1996, High school ”Liceo Scientifico Statale T. Fiore”, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy. High school diploma, score 60/60.
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Positions, contracts and grants:
• November 2015 – today: Associate professor at the Department of Physics and Earth sciences of the University of Ferrara. Hired through the procedure of “direct call” funded (at 95%) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
• September 2011 – October 2015: Researcher at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of Ferrara within the program:
“Programma giovani ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini 2009” funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. This program has been instituted, in 2009 for the first time, for hiring outstanding young researchers active in foreign institutions via a ministerial selection based on titles and on a specific research program. In 2009, only 31 projects have been selected among more than 300 applications and I have been one of the six persons funded within the scientific area of physics.
• November 2009 - August 2011: funded project with a fellowship from the ”Individual Grants Program” of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg (Germany).
• November 2008 - October 2009: ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI) fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg (Germany).
• November 2006 - October 2008: funded project from INFN with a fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) within the INFN Fellowship program. I have been one of the 5 young italian theoretical physicists to receive this funds in 2006.
• January - October 2006: research contract with the “Math4tech” department of the University of Ferrara (Italy).
• January - December 2005, research contract with the Physics department of Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
• July 2002 - October 2008/ September 2011 - today , Affiliated to INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics).
• January 2002 - December 2004, Grant for Ph.D. studentship from University of Ferrara (Italy).
• October - December 2001, grant program at the National Laboratory of Nanotechnology (NNL) of Lecce (Italy).
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Teaching:
• Course of Subatomic physics, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 at
the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of
Ferrara.
• Course of General physics, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 at the Department
of Mathematics of the University of Ferrara.
• Supervisor and co-supervisor for Doctoral and Master students at the
University of Ferrara.
• Tutor for the course of General relativity at the Institut fuer Theoretische
Physik of Heidelberg.
• Tutor for the student seminars of Quantum Mechanics and Statistical
Mechanics at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik of Heidelberg.
• Co-supervisor of Doctoral and Master students in astrophysics and
nuclear physics related areas at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
of Frankfurt am Main and of Heidelberg.
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Research interests in brief:
The main research topic concerns the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions with several research lines in the fields of nuclear astrophysics and hadronic physics:
• Equation of state of hadronic and quark matter.
• Structure and evolution of compact stars and protoneutron stars.
• Oscillation modes of compact stars and gravitational waves.
• Explosive phenomena in astrophysics: supernovae and gamma-raybursts.
• Hydrodynamical modeling of heavy ions collisions.
• Low mass scalar mesons and their spectral functions.
• Non-exponential decays of unstable systems and the quantum Zeno effect.
Scientific production and services:
• 38 papers published in international journals (including one publication
in “Nature” and three publications in “Physical Review Letters”).
• 31 international conference proceedings.
• h-index: 19 from INSPIRE, 16 from ISI web of Knowledge.
• Media coverage: two interviews published in the science magazine
”New Scientist” (February 2006 and December 2013).
• More than 30 among seminars and conference contributions (roughly 1/3 as invited speaker or lecturer)
•Referee for the journals: Physical Review D, Nuclear Physics A, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Journal of Physics G, European Physical Journal A - Plus, Physica
Scripta, Annals of Physics, Modern Physics Letters B.
Projects reviewer for the NSF (National Science Foundation, USA)
and for the FWF (Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung,
Austria).
• January 2014: habilitation for Associate Professor (02/A2) from the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
• January 2002 - December 2004: Ph.D. student in Physics (XVII cycle) at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. March 2005, Ph.D. diploma in Physics
Thesis: Compact Stars: structure and stability. Tutor: Dr. Alessandro Drago
• October 1996 - July 2001: Student in Physics at the University of Lecce, Italy. Master diploma in Physics (110/110 magna cum laude) at University of Lecce, Italy.
Thesis: ”Luminescenza indotta da microscopio a scansione ad effetto
tunnel su una struttura a quantum dots”. Tutor Prof.ssa Rosaria Rinaldi.
• September 1991 - July 1996, High school ”Liceo Scientifico Statale T. Fiore”, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy. High school diploma, score 60/60.
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Positions, contracts and grants:
• November 2015 – today: Associate professor at the Department of Physics and Earth sciences of the University of Ferrara. Hired through the procedure of “direct call” funded (at 95%) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
• September 2011 – October 2015: Researcher at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of Ferrara within the program:
“Programma giovani ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini 2009” funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. This program has been instituted, in 2009 for the first time, for hiring outstanding young researchers active in foreign institutions via a ministerial selection based on titles and on a specific research program. In 2009, only 31 projects have been selected among more than 300 applications and I have been one of the six persons funded within the scientific area of physics.
• November 2009 - August 2011: funded project with a fellowship from the ”Individual Grants Program” of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg (Germany).
• November 2008 - October 2009: ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI) fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg (Germany).
• November 2006 - October 2008: funded project from INFN with a fellowship for post-doctoral research at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) within the INFN Fellowship program. I have been one of the 5 young italian theoretical physicists to receive this funds in 2006.
• January - October 2006: research contract with the “Math4tech” department of the University of Ferrara (Italy).
• January - December 2005, research contract with the Physics department of Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
• July 2002 - October 2008/ September 2011 - today , Affiliated to INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics).
• January 2002 - December 2004, Grant for Ph.D. studentship from University of Ferrara (Italy).
• October - December 2001, grant program at the National Laboratory of Nanotechnology (NNL) of Lecce (Italy).
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Teaching:
• Course of Subatomic physics, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 at
the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of
Ferrara.
• Course of General physics, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 at the Department
of Mathematics of the University of Ferrara.
• Supervisor and co-supervisor for Doctoral and Master students at the
University of Ferrara.
• Tutor for the course of General relativity at the Institut fuer Theoretische
Physik of Heidelberg.
• Tutor for the student seminars of Quantum Mechanics and Statistical
Mechanics at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik of Heidelberg.
• Co-supervisor of Doctoral and Master students in astrophysics and
nuclear physics related areas at the Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
of Frankfurt am Main and of Heidelberg.
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Research interests in brief:
The main research topic concerns the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions with several research lines in the fields of nuclear astrophysics and hadronic physics:
• Equation of state of hadronic and quark matter.
• Structure and evolution of compact stars and protoneutron stars.
• Oscillation modes of compact stars and gravitational waves.
• Explosive phenomena in astrophysics: supernovae and gamma-raybursts.
• Hydrodynamical modeling of heavy ions collisions.
• Low mass scalar mesons and their spectral functions.
• Non-exponential decays of unstable systems and the quantum Zeno effect.
Scientific production and services:
• 38 papers published in international journals (including one publication
in “Nature” and three publications in “Physical Review Letters”).
• 31 international conference proceedings.
• h-index: 19 from INSPIRE, 16 from ISI web of Knowledge.
• Media coverage: two interviews published in the science magazine
”New Scientist” (February 2006 and December 2013).
• More than 30 among seminars and conference contributions (roughly 1/3 as invited speaker or lecturer)
•Referee for the journals: Physical Review D, Nuclear Physics A, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Journal of Physics G, European Physical Journal A - Plus, Physica
Scripta, Annals of Physics, Modern Physics Letters B.
Projects reviewer for the NSF (National Science Foundation, USA)
and for the FWF (Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung,
Austria).
