About Me

I was born in Salerno, Italy in 1986.

I received my B. Sc. (25.07.2008) and M. Sc. (23.07.2010) degrees in Civil Engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (Italy).

I defended my Ph.D. thesis (19.05.2014) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Bologna in the framework of the Doctor Europaeus programme under the supervision of Prof. E. Viola and Prof. A. Marzani. The PhD thesis was entitled: "Behavior and applications of elastic waves in structures and metamaterials" and devoted to the propagation of elastic waves in: (i) structural elements for Non Destructive Testing (NDT) purposes and (ii) phononic crystals and elastic metamaterials.

During my PhD, I have been funded by the Spinner (Services for the Promotion of INNovation and Research) Consortium of Bologna for a 6-month mobility project carried at the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Gdansk (Poland) under the supervision of Prof. W. Ostachowicz.

After my PhD, I moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Turin, where I spent 1 year as post-doc under the supervision of Dr. F. Bosia and Prof. N. Pugno during the which my work focused on "bio-inpsired phononinc crystals and acoustic metamaterials". During this period, I spent a research period at the Department of Mathematical Sciences (University of Liverpool) as a visiting researcher under the supervision of Prof. A. B. Movchan.

In 2016 I moved to the "Laboratory of Waves and Complex Media" (CNRS UMR 6294) of Le Havre in the framework of an Individual Marie Curie Action, under the supervision of Prof. Bruno Morvan, working on the propagation of elastic waves in active phononic crystals. During this period I have been invited researcher at the: (i) Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA - United States), under the supervision of Prof. Ruzzene working on phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials for topological insulation (May - July 2016) and (ii) California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA - United States), under the supervision of Prof. C. Daraio, working on inertial amplification mechanisms (June - July 2017).

In January 2018 I joined the research group of Prof. M. Ruzzene at the "Laboratory of Wave Motion" at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA - United States), working as a post-doc fellow on phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials for topological insulation.

From July 2018 to December 2019 I moved at the "Laboratory of Acoustics and Noise Control " at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) of Dubendorf in the framework of a COFUND Marie Curie Action, under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Bergamini, working on the control of elastic waves via hierarchical metamaterials.

From January 2020 I am permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), within the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Villeneuve D’Ascq, France.

My main research is published in: Nature Communications, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Applied, Journal of Sound and Vibration, International Journal of Solids and Structures, etc.