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🎉 Check out my latest work, on detecting Helium Reionization with Line-Intensity Mapping: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17702 🎉

second-year post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics, passionate about the universe and above

Currently based in Heidelberg, I work at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Frontier Research Group (P.I. Dr. Sarah Bosman) on the Epoch of Reionization, the InterGalactic Medium, high-redshift quasars and much more.

I am mainly interested in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), i.e. the process of ionization of most of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM). When did it happen? How has it progressed? Which is the role of quasars and galaxies? I like the idea of improving our knowledge of the EoR by answering these questions one paper at the time.

I am using a synergetic approach by connecting simulations/theory and experiments/observations. I started my research career using cosmological simulations of the post-EoR to disentangle dark matter models, and I am now using XQR-30 quasar spectra to constrain the HI fraction at the very end of the EoR. The EoR is a multi-scale (in time and space) process, and it needs the best comprehension of physics phenomena at all scales to be completely understood, only reachable via the synergy between theory and observations.

About me

I grew up in a small town in Northern Italy, Pieve di Soligo, in the mid of the beautiful Prosecco Hills, at the base of the Alps, but just one hour away from the gorgeous city of Venice.

I gained my Bachelor and Master in Physics at the University of Padua under the supervision of Prof. Sabino Matarrese and Dr. Michele Liguori.

I also spent a 1-year Erasmus period in Marseille, where I worked at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) with Dr. Carlo Schimd.

In Nov. 2019 I moved to the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn for my Ph.D. and I have been living in Germany since then. I gained my Ph.D. in Sept. 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cristiano Porciani.

I right away moved to the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University, where I have been working with Dr. Sarah Bosman as a post-doctoral researcher.