Funding and Awards

Individual Fundings:

• 2023. Individual Marie-Curie fellownship - postdoctoral researcher at the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany.
  Host institute: Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Host: Prof. Dr. H. Loewen

• 2021-2022. Humboldt fellownship for postdoctoral researcher.
  Host institute: Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Host: Prof. Dr. H. Loewen.

Grants:

• 2024 November - present. PRIN 2022 (~250 k). Sapienza-Unit PI. Project title: "Stochastic nonequilibrium modelling from incomplete knowledge: the role of hidden variables". Other research units: CNR, Rome (Dr. A. Puglisi), University of Vanvitelli (Prof. A. Sarracino). 

• 2024 June - present. PRIN PRR 2022 (~180 k). Sapienza-Unit PI.  Project title: "When deep learning is not enough: creating hard benchmarks and physics-inspired algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems". Other research units: Bocconi University of Milan (Prof.  C. Lucibello).

Awards:

• 2025. Early career scientist award in Statistical Physics, assigned by IUPAP.

• 2024. Outstanding referee for the American Physical Society (APS).

• 2023. Outstanding referee for the scientific journal: Soft Matter.

• 2023. Outstanding referee for the scientific journal: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

• 2020. Award “Premio Giovanni Paladin” 2020-edition, assigned by Società Italiana di Fisica Statistica (SIFS) “Per la qualità e l’originalità del lavoro svolto e la chiarezza di esposizione della tesi di dottorato, e gli interessanti contributi dati alla meccanica statistica dei sistemi di non equilibrio e in particolar modo allo studio delle proprietà spazio-temporali della materia.”

• 2019. Travel award winner, sponsored by the journal “Entropy” - MDPI – to attend and present my contribution at the conference StatPhys 27 held in Buenos Aires from July 8th to July 12th.

• 2016. Awards: “Percorso di Eccellenza”, Sapienza University of Rome.

• 2016. Scholarship: “Borsa di collaborazione”, Sapienza University of Rome. Tutor for the Physics course at the department of Biology.

• 2011-2014. Scholarship: “Studente meritevole”, Sapienza University of Rome.