Teaching and supervision

Teaching Experience

My lecture notes on Black Holes are available here

• I am the teaching assistant to the "Quantum Mechanics" PHYSF302, Bachelor course at ULB, held by A. Collinucci and B. Oblak, Fall 2025

• I delivered a series of lectures on "Near-extremal black holes"  in July 2025 at the "VI Siembra-HoLAGrav Young Frontiers Meeting at ICTP-SAIFR", Sao Paulo, Brazil. Recorded lectures available here

• Lectures on "Near-extremal (Kerr) thermodynamics"  during the PhD graduate course at UniMi (March 2025). Covering the topics: black holes phase transitions, black hole microstates via localization, near-extremal black holes and JT gravity

• Southampton University (UK), Lectures on black holes, holography and supergravity,  June 2022

Series of 6 frontal lectures (1h each) plus exercises aimed at PhD students. Lectures notes (hand written) available here (day1, day2, day2/2, day3, day3/2)

Recorded lectures available here.

• Amsterdam University (NL), Lectures on black holes, holography and supergravity,  December 2021

Series of 4 frontal lectures (1h each) aimed at PhD students, given at the Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam    Solvay  Doctoral  School          

• Utrecht University (NL), Teaching Assistant,  2012/2013:  General Relativity master course taught by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft  ( one semester, 7.5 ECTS, 4h per week). 

• Utrecht University (NL), Teaching Assistant,  2011/2012:  Advanced Quantum Mechanics bachelor course taught by Dr. Gleb Arutyunov (one semester, 10.25 ECTS, 4h per week).

•  Utrecht University (NL), Teaching Assistant,  2010/2011:  Cosmology master course taught by Dr. Tomislav Prokopec (one semester, 7.5 ECTS, 4h per week).          

Supervisor activities 

- Master thesis supervisor of Francis Headley (master in Mathematical Physics at UvA), 2021-2023

- Master thesis co-supervisor of  Francesca Mariani (Erasmus student at UvA from Milano Bicocca), academic year 2021/2022 with Prof. A. Castro

-Supervision of a project with Dong-Ming He (master student at UvA in supervision with A. Castro)

-Master thesis supervisor of R. Salto (UniMi, erasmus student at ULB) in co-supervision with A. Amariti

-Master thesis supervisor of S. Tribel (ULB) in co-supervision with R. Argurio

Participation to PhD defense committees

- External referee for the doctoral thesis of Marco Rabbiosi (Milano U., Dec. 2017), Supervisor S. Klemm.

- Member of the defense committee for the PhD of Evita Verheijden (2022), UvA, supervisor E. Verlinde and A. Castro

-Member of the defense committee for the PhD of Anthony Houppe (2023), CEA Saclay, supervisor I. Bena