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

June 2004

Special award as the best student in the scientific curriculum

Special award for the achievements in the subjects of mathematics and physics 

Awards granted during the graduation ceremony of the high school of Mendrisio (Switzerland) 

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 Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Journal of Physical Society of Japan

  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics

  • Journal of the Royal Society Interface

  • 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

Reporting and presenting: Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Inkscape

Fluid dynamic: Flow3D, Autodesk Moldflow, OpenFOAM, TRACE

Crowd simulation: MassMotion, Pathfinder, Viswalk

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