• 07/2021: Associate Professor at the Sapienza Department of Physics

• 07/2018 – 06/2021: Assistant professor (ricercatore a tempo determinato Legge 240/10) and Rita Levi Montalcini Fellow at the Sapienza Department of Physics

• 01/2017 – 06/2018: Research Fellow at Cardiff University 

• 11/2013 – 12/2016: Research Associate at Cardiff University

• 11/2009 – 10/2013: postdoc in the Numerical Relativity Group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

• 01/2010: PhD in Physics from Sapienza – University of Rome, under the supervision of Prof. Valeria Ferrari

Scientific roles and responsibilities

• 2023 - present: Co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Data Analysis Council

• 2023 - present: Virgo Collaboration data analysis coordinator

• 2018 - 2024: Review co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration burst data analysis group

• 2016 - 2022: Co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration gamma-ray burst follow-up data analysis working group

• 2019 - 2022: Member of the Amaldi Research Center Steering Committee

Honours and awards

• Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year Award (2017, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Albert Einstein Medal (2017, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Bruno Rossi Prize (2017, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for Astronomy (2017, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Gruber Cosmology Prize (2016, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016, as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University (2016, as part of the Cardiff University Gravitational Physics Group)

Funding

• 2025: Co-PI for the the project "Gamma-ray bursts: a probe of multi-messenger and extreme astro-physics" project [€199,227, Italian Space Agency (ASI)]

• 2023: PI for the PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse Nazionale, 2022) project "BIGA: Boosting Inference for Gravitational-wave Astrophysics:" [€231232, from the Ministry of Research]

• 2023: Sapienza Medium Size Research Grant, as participant in the "Multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves: boosting observations and inferring source population and cosmological properties” project [€11000]

• 2022: Co-PI for the PNRR (Recovery and Resilience Plan) project "Ricerche di Fisica nello Spoke 2 del CN1 - HPC" (Physics Research in the Spoke 2 of the National Center 1 - High Performance Computing) [€273450, from the Ministry of Research]

• 2021 Sapienza Large Facilities Grant, as participant in the "Multi-purpose millimetre-and-submillimiter-wave testing facility (Vector Network Analyser) for accurate characterisation of quasi-optical and waveguide components/systems in the frequency range 75-500 GHz" project [€520000]

• 197973.66€ (2018-21) from the Programma Rita Levi Montalcini - MIUR for the project "Neutron Star Binary Coalescences: Science for the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era."

• Awarded £9400 through the Cardiff University Incoming Visiting Fellowship Scheme and the International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund (2017/18) for the collaboration “Multimessenger Astronomy with Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers” with the Princeton and Parma Universities.

• Awarded €10000 by ECT* and ENSAR2 to lead the organization of the ECT* workshop "Nuclear Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era"

• Awarded €10000 by the German Research Foundation in 2012 for the project "Improving Advanced LIGO/Virgo event rate estimates for compact binary mergers," in collaboration with K. Belczynski (University of Warsaw and University of Texas, Brownsville), E. Berti (University of Mississippi and Caltech), M. Dominik (University of Warsaw), K. Kyutoku (RIKEN), and M. Shibata (Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics).

Student supervision

• 2025: Supervision of 3 PhD students, 1 MSc student, and 1 project student.

• 2024: Supervision of 3 PhD students, 1 MSc student, 3 BSc students, and 1 project student

• 2023: supervision of 2 PhD, 2 MSc, 4 BSc students, and 1 project student; co-supervision of 1 MSc student

• 2022: supervision of 2 MSc students and 1 BSc student; co-supervision of 1 PhD and 1 MSc student

• 2021: supervision of 1 project student and 2 BSc students

• 2020: supervision of 3 MSc and 2 BSc students; co-supervision of 2 MSc students

• 2019: supervision of 1 MSc and 2 BSc students; co-supervision of 1 BSc student

• 2017: co-supervision of 2 MSc students

• 2016: supervision of 1 summer student

• 2015: co-supervision of 1 BSc student; supervision of 1 summer student

• 2014: supervision of 3 summer students

Publications

• 202 peer-reviewed publications, with 82834 citations by 24381 documents (source: ADS-NASA, July 2025)

• h-index 93, g-index 204 (source: ADS-NASA, July 2025)

• Editor of the book Nuclear Theory in the Age of Multimessenger Astronomy, Edited By Omar Benhar, Alessandro Lovato, Andrea Maselli, Francesco Pannarale, CRC Press (2024).

Invited talks and colloquia

• "Localizing and Detecting Gravitational-Wave Sources in O5", 5th Philip Wetton Workshop, Christ Church, Oxford, United Kingdom (2025)

• "LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Latest Achievements and O4, XIII Einstein Telescope Symposium, Cagliari, Italy (remotely, 2023)

• "The robustness of the association of GW170817 and GRB 170817A," 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (remotely, 2021)

• "Searching for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts," NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands (remotely, 2020)

• "Overview of the Burst Review Process," KAGRA Collaboration (remotely, 2020)

• "Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Observations of Compact Binaries," XI Congresso Nazionale Oggetti Compatti, Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy (2019)

• "Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves Observations of Compact Binaries," 19th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (2019)

• "Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries," 9th Iberian Gravitational-Wave Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2019)

• "Astrophysical Expectations from O3," Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy (2019)

• "Gravitational Waves and Multi-messenger Astronomy," XVIII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy (2019)

• "The First Binary Neutron Star Coalescence," Neutron Stars in Lisbon: The Multimessenger Universe After GW170817, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (2018)

• "Rattle and Shine: Compact Binary Coalescences in the Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Era," Sapienza – Università di Roma, Rome, Italy (2017)

• "Rattle and Shine: Compact Binary Coalescences in the Gravitational- Wave Astronomy Era," SISSA, Trieste, Italy (2017)

• "Searching for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Advanced Detector Era," University of Washington, Bothel (WA) USA (2017)

• "Frequency Domain Binary Black Hole Gravitational Waveforms with Higher Multipoles," University of Oregon, USA (2017)

• "Searches for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Advanced Detector Era," NewCompStar Annual Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (2017)

• "Searching for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Advanced Detector Era," CEA, Saclay, France (2017)

• "Searching for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Advanced Detector Era," Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France (2017)

• "Neutron star gravitational-wave transient searches," NewCompStar meeting on oscillations and instabilities in neutron stars, Southampton, UK (2016)

• "Gravitational Waves from Conception to Detection," 2nd International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (IDPASC) Students Workshop, Porto, Portugal (2016)

• "Observing Gravitational Waves from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts," JINA- CEE International Symposium on Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Prospects & Challenges, Athens (OH), USA (2016)

• "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger," University of Trento, Italy (2016)

• "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger," Caltech, Pasadena (CA), USA (2016)

• "Observing Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers," Portsmouth University, UK (2015)

• "Searching for Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries in the Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector Era," University of Southampton, UK (2015)

• Prospects for Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Observations of Neutron-Star–Black-Hole Coalescing Coalescing Binaries," University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (2015)

• "Coalescing Compact Binaries: Final State, Gravitational Wave Emission, and Afterglow," Caltech, Pasadena (CA), USA (2013)

• "Modelling the Remnant and the Afterglow of Compact Binary Mergers," Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland (2012)

• "Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy: Present Status and the Years to Come," Astronomical Observatory University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2012)

• "Coalescing Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries as Short Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors and Sources of Gravitational Radiation," Sapienza - Università  di Roma, Rome, Italy (2011)

• "Compact Gravitational Wave Sources," Italian Physics Society (SIF) meeting, Bari, Italy (2009)