Selected news:

• Our paper Random purification channel made simple has been accepted to Physical Review Letters as an Editors' Suggestion!

• I gave an invited talk at Quantum Innovators 2026, a workshop at IQC (University of Waterloo), bringing together early-career researchers making an impact in quantum information.

• During the summer of 2026, I was a Google Student Researcher at Google Quantum AI, working with Tom O'Brien. 

• Three of our papers were presented at QIP 2026!

• I received the 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize, an international award which recognizes early-career researchers for work that moves the field of quantum information science and engineering in new directions! 

• I received the Giuseppe Franco Bassani Award, an annual honor bestowed by the Italian Physical Society on a single outstanding early-career Italian physicist in recognition of exceptional talent.

• I received the Federico Tonielli Award, conferred annually on a single Italian PhD student in STEM for outstanding research excellence. 

• Nature Physics has published our paper Learning quantum states of CV systems!

• Nature Photonics has published our paper Maximum tolerable excess noise in CV-QKD and improved lower bound on two-way capacities.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pisa (maximum grade: 110/110 cum laude) [Grades for all my bachelor's exams here]

• Master's degree in physics from the University of Pisa (maximum grade: 110/110 cum laude) [Grades for all my master's exams here]

• "Special" Master in Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (maximum grade: 100/100 cum laude). [Grades for all my SNS exams here]
  I was awarded a highly competitive, fully funded scholarship at Scuola Normale Superiore, one of Italy's most prestigious universities. Admission was granted through a highly selective national entrance examination requiring excellence in written and oral exams focused on advanced problem-solving in physics and mathematics, together with sustained outstanding academic performance throughout the two years of the master's program. In 2019, I was the only student admitted to this master's program in Physics. Additional information is available here.

• PhD in Nanoscience from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy), advised by Vittorio Giovannetti and Ludovico Lami, with the highest grade of 110/110 cum laude and special congratulations from the examination committee. Thesis defended on 21 September 2026, with Gerardo Adesso and Angela Capel as thesis reviewers and Fabio Beltram serving on the examination committee.