Research activities

Full publications at the bottom of the page

Since my bachelor work, I've always developed my research work within the field of astroparticle and multi-messenger astrophysics. In particular, my focus has always been devoted to ultra-high energy phenomena, in particular ultra-high energy cosmic rays. I'm a member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration since 2012 and for this experiment I work mostly on the study of arrival directions, astrophysical implications, detector performances and event reconstruction.

I've obtained my PhD at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France (formerly UPMC-Paris6). During this period, I have gained a deep knowledge of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory, focusing in particular on the highest energy events, the ones used in the search for small/intermediate scale anisotropies and correlations with astrophysical objects. I'm also member of the inter-collaboration working group with the Telescope Array experiment and with the Antares, IceCube and Telescope Array observatories. In 2016 I worked as a post-doc researcher at TUM in Munich, Germany, in the group of Prof. Elisa Resconi. In collaboration also with Paolo Padovani at ESO, we developed new analysis techniques to search for multi-messenger correlation between UHECRs, gamma-rays from blazars and high energy neutrinos.

Experience

  • Researcher-
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
    Sezione di MilanoApr 2019 - Now
  • Post-doc (Assegno di tipo A) Università degli Studi di Milano Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
  • Post-doc TUM, Munich (DE)Feb 2016 - Aug 2016

Education

  • PhD
    Physique (Astroparticule- ED Step'UP)
    Sorbonne Université (former UPMC-Paris ) Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
  • Master of Science
    Physics
    Università degli Studi di MilanoDec 2010-Sep 2012
  • Bachelor of Science
    Physics
    Università degli Studi di MilanoOct 2007-Dec 2010
  • High SchoolLiceo Scientifico Statale "A. Einstein", Milan (Italy) 2002-2007

Qualifications and resposabilities

  • Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 02/A1
    National Scientific qualification
    for the position of associate professor (experimental physics of fundamental interactions) from 10/07/2020 to 10/07/2029
  • High Energy Flux Distribution working group Pierre Auger Collaboration Leader Jan 2020 - now
  • Joint working group Antares, IceCube, Telescope Array and Pierre Auger Collaborations 2014 - Now
  • Joint working group for arrival direction studies Telescope Array and Pierre Auger Collaborations 2018 - Now

Conferences

  • International Cosmic Rays Conference 2019
    Madison, WI (USA)
    Anisotropies of the highest energy cosmic-ray events recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory in 15 years of operation on behalf of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
  • UHECR 2018
    Paris (FR)
    Search for a correlation between the UHECRs measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array and the neutrino candidate events from IceCube and ANTARES On behalf of the 4 collaborations.
  • Workshop on Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources (2015,2017,2019)
    Palermo (IT)
    Highlights of the Pierre Auger Observatoryon behalf of the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Publications

  • The Pierre Auger Collaboration has a publication policy where all collaborators sign all papers made by the Collaboration. I highlighted the full-author-list publications to which I contributed the most with specific notes, but my work on the detector has benifited the majority of the analyses, in particular the ones devoted to arrival direction studies.