Welcome to my small home page!

This site is (always) under construction, and I will update it as my spare time allows. I have set up just a basic site to introduce myself and link to my CV and some other documents and publications.

At the time of writing, I am employed as Software Engineer in local business, Ipses s.r.l., specializing in Software/Hardware integration, industrial automation with a focus on high reliability/accountability design specifications.

I also cooperate with a fintech research startup based in Milan, Brain Co. We apply statistical methods and advanced machine learning techniques to financial, economical and "alternative" data and we provide new data and new financial instruments.

Before that I completed a postdoc at Università Statale di Milano, where I focused on statistical properties of materials undergoing deformation and failure. I also have a number of other collaboration projects ongoing, that span from transport properties to questions on DNA folding mechanisms.

In the past I held a postdoc position at CNR-IENI in Milan. I was tasked with the study of dynamical properties of fracture in model materials, using DEM and other simulation techniques..

I earned a Ph.D. degree in Physics (March 2012), at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (sometimes indicated as "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology"). I worked in the field of granular materials, studying the properties of a glass-like transition in vibrated granular systems.

In the last period of my stay at the EPFL I have also started a project of study of static sphere packing; together with my colleague and friend R. Balzan, we developed a technique to reconstruct with extremely high accuracy the 3D structure of packings of millimeter-size spheres. We also compare the experimental data to simulations using DEM methods. This is documented in my PhD Thesis. I also developed some DEM simulation tools to study the behavior of metallic alloys under anelastic deformation, together with my colleague A-K. Meyer.

Even before, I earned my Master in Theoretical Physics at the University of Milan, studying statistical properties and evolutionary models of genes, genomes and transcription networks.

I hope to be able to add more material, as soon as possible. For now, I thank you for your visit, and hope to hear from you soon.