Bio

I graduated from the University of Padova in 2012 and obtained my PhD in 2015 from the University of Paris-Didérot for my research at the Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire. During my PhD, I contributed to the development of a novel type of Cherenkov-light detector for particle identification located in SLAC (Stanford). I also studied the polarisation of rare b→sɣ transitions using data from CERN's LHCb experiment under the supervision of Marie-Hélène Schune. 

As a postdoc, I joined the group of Diego Martinez-Santos at IGFAE (Spain) and CERN to work on his research project funded by the European Research Council. My focus shifted to the search for dark-sector particles using the LHCb experiment and to the phenomenological studies of Supersymmetric theories with the MasterCode collaboration. 

In 2018, I moved to the University of Heidelberg and obtained a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a 2-year project centred on the analysis of LHCb data using decay channels with electrons. I stayed for almost 5 years in Heidelberg in the group of Prof Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer where I co-supervised the research projects of about 20 students. During this time, I worked on several analyses of LHCb data involving rare b→sℓℓ transitions as well as searches for heavy neutrinos and dark photons.

Thanks to a "Rita Levi Montalcini" grant, I joined the University of Milano-Bicocca as a tenure-track assistant professor in June 2023. My project is titled "Flavour anomalies and virtual photons" and is based on the LHCb experiment. The first goal is to use LHCb data to clarify some tantalising anomalies observed in the rare decays of beauty quarks. Additionally, I aim to establish a new method to study rare flavour-changing transitions of quarks b→s, b→u, and c→u using virtual and converted photons that materialise in dielectron pairs.

I am part of the SMARTHEP Innovative Training Network, a project funded by the European Union to develop real-time analysis techniques for LHC experiments in collaboration with computer science and industry specialists. I supervise one of the PhD students of the network and serve as deputy coordinator.

Since Jan 2025, I have been convening the "Rare Decays" physics-analysis working group which oversees approximately 60 ongoing analyses led by over 200 researchers worldwide. In 2024 I received the "Young Talents prize" for Physics from the University of Milano-Bicocca and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Curriculum Vitae

Students

Here is a list of the students I co-supervised since 2018: