Academic Appointments

• 20.12.2024: Full Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma.

• 01.11.2021: Member of the scientific board of the Ph.D Program in Physics

• 01.10.2015: Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma.

• 01.01.2010: Incarico di Ricerca INFN

• 30 dic 2008: Researcher at Sapienza Università di Roma.

• 2006 - 2008: Post-Doc at INFN.

• 2004 - 2006: Post-Doc at Sapienza Università di Roma.

Education

• 29.01.2004: Ph. D. in Physics at Sapienza Università di Roma. Thesis:"Measurement of b to s gamma Branching Ratio Studying the Recoil of Fully Reconstructed B's with the BaBar Experiment" 

• 19.07.2000: Master Degree Thesis at Università "Roma Tre".Thesis:"Measurement of K mesons regeneration cross section in KLOE". Graduation with full mark (110/110 cum laude)

Research Short Summary

My research focuses on the total lepton number violation throught the search of Majorana neutrinos. I'm a member of the CUORE and CUPID (National PI) experiments whose goal is the discovery of the neutrinoless doube beta decay with cryogenic calorimeters. I'm actually the Rome coordinator for the INFN Astroparticle Committee. At the beginning of my career I was involved in the study of CP violation in the KLOE and Babar Experiment with particualre attention to radiative penguine decays. I'm referee for different journals and insitutions (ERC,INFN, MUR, ANR, NERSC) and  author of ~480 peer-review articles. I gave several talks at internationational conferences and workshops.

My teaching activity is mainly devoted to courses of general Physics (Mechanics, Probability and Laboratory) for the Bachelor Degree in Physics and lectures on Neutrinos and  particle detectors at LNGS laboratory for the Masters' Degree in Physics.

Funding Id

• 2019-2021 National PI INFN CUPID

• 2019 PRIN 2017 "Advanced techniques for a next generation cryogenic Double Beta Decay experiment"

• 2018 Sapienza Grant Grandi Attrezzature: " Caratterizzazione di calorimetri criogenici per la ricerca del neutrino di Majorana"

• 2011-2016 National PI INFN Lucifer R&D

• 2014 Sapienza Grant Grandi Attrezzature: "Caratterizzazione di rivelatori superconduttori a bassissime temperature per l'astrofisica, la fisica del neutrino, la ricerca di materia oscura, il calcolo quantistico, lo studio di algoritmi di controllo ottimo"

• 2014 Sapienza Grant:"Characterization of thin films for the light yield optimization of cryogenic light detectors"

• 2013 Sapienza Grant:"Intraoperative Probe for Brain Tumor Surgery"

• FIRB 2012:"High-sensitivity cryogenic light detectors for rare event searches"

• PRIN 2010-2011:"Development of detector for the double beta decay"

• 2011 Sapienza Grant:"Characterization of the Cerenkov light in crystals for the search of Majorana neutrino with the bolometric technique"

• 2010 Sapienza Grant:"Characterization of the optical properties of crystals for the search of Majorana neutrino with the bolometric technique"

Awards

• 2018: Riconoscimento eccellente insegnamento universitario A.A. 2017/18 assigned to one of the three most voted teachers in the Physics Department (<5%) 

• 2004: Grant "Fondazione Angelo Della Riccia" for research in a foreign laboratory (SLAC)

• 2000 "Enrico Persico" Award, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

• 1998 "Enrico Persico" Award, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei