• 07/2021: Professore Associato presso il Dipartimento di Fisica di Sapienza

• 07/2018 – 06/2021: Ricercatore a tempo determinato Legge 240/10 come Rita Levi Montalcini Fellow presso il Dipartimento di Fisica di Sapienza

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

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

• 11/2009 – 10/2013: postdoc nel gruppo di Relatività Numerica del Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

• 01/2010: dottorato in Fisica presso la Sapienza – Università di Roma, sotto la supervisione della Prof.ssa Valeria Ferrari

Ruoli e responsibilità scientificis

• 2023 - presente: Co-chair del LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Data Analysis Council

• 2023 - presente: Data analysis coordinator della Virgo Collaboration

• 2018 - 2024: Review co-chair del gruppo analisi dati Burst della LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration

• 2016 - 2022: Co-chair del gruppo di analisi dati di follow-up ad eventi gamma-ray burst della LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration

• 2019 - 2022: Membro dell'Amaldi Research Center Steering Committee

Premi e Riconoscimenti

• Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year Award (2017, come membro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Albert Einstein Medal (2017, come membro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Bruno Rossi Prize (2017, come mebro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017, come membro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for Astronomy (2017, come membro dellaLIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Gruber Cosmology Prize (2016, come membro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016, come membro della LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

• Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University (2016, come membro del Cardiff University Gravitational Physics Group)

Finanziamenti

• 2025: Co-PI per il progetto "Gamma-ray bursts: a probe of multi-messenger and extreme astro-physics" project [€199,227, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana]

• 2023: PI per il progetto PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse Nazionale, 2022) “ BIGA: Boosting Inference for Gravitational-wave Astrophysics” [€231232, dal Ministero della Ricerca]

• 2023: Fondi di ricerca Sapienza per progetti di taglia media, come partecipante del progetto “Multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves: boosting observations and inferring source population and cosmological properties” [€11000]

• 2022: Co-PI per il progetto PNRR (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza)  “Ricerche di Fisica nello Spoke 2 del CN1 - HPC” (Physics Research in the Spoke 2 of the National Center 1 - High Performance Computing) [€273450, dal Ministero della Ricerca]

• 2021 Sapienza Large Facilities Grant, come participante nel progetto "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" [€520000]

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

• 9400£ dal Cardiff University Incoming Visiting Fellowship Scheme e International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund (2017/18) per la collaborazione “Multimessenger Astronomy with Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers” con le università di Princeton e Parma.

• 10000€ dall'ECT* e dall'ENSAR2 come organizzatore principale dell'ECT* workshop "Nuclear Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era"

• 10000€ dalla German Research Foundation nel 2012 per il progetto "Improving Advanced LIGO/Virgo event rate estimates for compact binary mergers," in collaborazione con 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), e M. Shibata (Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics).

Supervisione di studenti

• 2025: supervisione di 3 dottorandi, 1 laureando magistrale e 1 studente a progetto

• 2024: supervisione di 3 dottorandi, 1 laureando magistrale, 3 laureandi triennali e 1 studente a progetto

• 2023: supervisione di 2 dottorandi, 2 laureando magistrale, 4 laureandi triennali e 1 studente a progetto; co-supervisione di 2 laureandi magistrali

• 2022: supervisione di 2 laureandi magistrali e 1 laureand triennale; co-supervisione di 1 dottorando e 1 laureando magsitrale

• 2021: supervisione di 1 studente a progetto e 2 aureandi triennali

• 2020: supervisione di 3 laureandi magistrali e 2 laureandi triennali; co-supervisione di 2 laureandi magistrali

• 2019: supervisione di 1 laureando magistrale e 2 laureandi triennali; co-supervisione di 1 laureando triennale

• 2017: co-supervisione di 2 laureandi magistrali

• 2016: supervisione di 1 summer student

• 2015: co-supervisione di 1 laureando triennale; supervisione di 1 summer student

• 2014: supervisione di 3 summer students

Pubblicazioni

• 202 articoli peer-reviewed, con 82834 citazioni da parte di 24381 documenti (sorgente: ADS-NASA, luglio 2025)

• h-index 93, g-index 204 (sorgente: ADS-NASA, luglio 2025)

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

Seminari su invito e colloquia

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

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

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

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

• "Overview of the Burst Review Process," KAGRA Collaboration (da remoto, 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)