April 2023 - March 2025

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist: 4,680,000 Yen 

Steering crowds by non-invasive methods using the "nudging" approach: from laboratory to reality (URL)

September 2021

Co-winner of the Ig Nobel Prize on Kinetics 

For conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians (URL)

April 2020 - March 2023

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist: 4,290,000 Yen 

Development of a system to steer crowds through imperceptible modifications of the surrounding environment (URL)

February 2020

Recipient of the UTEC mobility grant

Mobility grant to spend a period abroad (University of Navarra, Spain, guest of Prof. Iker Zuriguel)

March 2018

Recipient of the engineering department dean's prize of The University of Tokyo 

Original name: 東京大学工学系研究科長賞（研究）

Award given to few students per year based on results achieved during the study program

June 2016

Recipient of AI*IA Mobility Grants Award

Grant from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence to perform a research project in Italy

October 2014 - September 2017

Recipient of the SEUT type A scholarship from the University of Tokyo (outstanding candidate)

Scholarship granted to a limited number of students to cover financial costs during the PhD course

April 2016 - March 2017

Recipient of the “University of Tokyo international student scholarship” 

Scholarship granted to a limited number of international student in The University of Tokyo

Active reviewer for the following journals (in alphabetic order):

• • Accident Analysis and Prevention

  • Advances in Mechanical Engineering

  • Applied Mathematical Modeling

  • Applied Sciences

  • Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

  • Automatika

  • Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

  • Cogent Engineering

  • Collective Dynamics

  • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

  • Electronics

  • Frontiers in Computer Science

  • Geo-spatial Information Science

  • Heliyon

  • IEEE Access

  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions

  • IET Intelligent Transport Systems

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

  • International Journal of Geo-Information

  • Journal of Advanced Transportation

  • Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

  • Journal of Central South University

  • Journal of Computational Science

  • Journal of Disaster Research

  • Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Journal of Physical Society of Japan

  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics

  • Journal of the Royal Society Interface

  • Movement & Sport Sciences

  • Physica A

  • Physics Letters A

  • PLOS ONE

  • Royal Society Open Science

  • Safety

  • Safety Science

  • Sensors

  • Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory

  • Sustainability

  • Transportation

  • Transportation Letters

  • Transportation Research Part A

  • Transportation Research Part C

  • Transportation Research Record

  • Transportmetrica A

  • Transportmetrica B

  • Urban, Planning and Transport Research

Programming languages:

MATLAB, VB.Net (Visual Basic, Basic), Python, C++, Fortran, Java, Netlogo, PHP

Operating systems:

Windows (11 or older), Linux (Ubuntu), Android, Mac OS

Software:

Data analysis: MATLAB, Python, IGOR, Mathematica, SPSS, SPSS Amos

Reporting and presenting: Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Inkscape

Fluid dynamic: Flow3D, Autodesk Moldflow, OpenFOAM, TRACE

Crowd simulation: Viswalk, MassMotion, Pathfinder

CAD: CAD NX, AutoCAD

Other: LabView, PeTrack, Tracker, Unity, Repast Symphony, various video/audio software

Italian: Mother tongue

English: proficient in writing and oral with working experience (CAE Grade C, 2008 / TOEFL iBT score: 102, 2014)

Japanese: proficient in writing and oral with working experience (JLPT N2: score 111, 2013)

German: proficient in writing and oral with working experience

French: proficient in writing and oral

Spanish: some (very) basic knowledge