Brief CV
Education
13/03/2015 Ph.D in Applied Physics, University of Palermo, Italy.
Title of Ph.D. thesis: Noisy dynamics in long and short Josephson junctions. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. B. Spagnolo.
29/03/2011 Master degree in Physics, University of Palermo, Italy.
Thesis: "Structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of FeO and NiO ultrathin films in epitaxial growth of a surface Cu (001), using ab initio simulations”.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. M. Merli, Prof. Dr. F. M. Gelardi. Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
National Scientific Habilitation (ASN)
11/2020 – National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Italian Universities of Condensed Matter Theoretical Physics
11/2020 – National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Italian Universities of Fundamental Interactions Theoretical Physics
Current position
05/2023 – present: Researcher (Tenure-track Assistant Professor, “Ricercatore RTDb” in the italian jargon), Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (Sa), Italy
Previous positions
08/2019 – 07/2022 Research Fellow (RTDa), Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (Sa), Italy
Project: “Study of Electrical Trasport Phenomena and Thermal Properties in solid-state systems, in particular in superconductors”
03/2019 – 07/2019 Post-doctoral fellow, Centro de Fisica de Materiales (CFM-MPC), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Project: “Theoretical studies of Magneto‐electric Effects at hybrid Interfaces between Superconductors and magnetic Insulators”. PI: Dr. S. Bergeret
03/2017 – 03/2019 Post-doctoral fellow, NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
Project: “Theoretical physics to study the coherent heat transport properties in Josephson superconducting systems”. ERC Consolidator Grant “Coherent manipulation and control of heat in solid-state nanostructures: the era of coherent caloritronics (COMANCHE)” – PI: Dr. F. Giazotto
02/2016 – 03/2017 Post-doctoral fellow, NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy); CNR Institute SPIN, Genova, and the Physics Department, University of Genova, Genova (Italy)
Project: “Theoretical physics to study the coherent heat transport properties in Josephson superconducting systems”. FIRB project “Coherent caloritronics in mesoscopic superconducting circuits (CoCa)” - PI: Prof. P. Solinas
01/2015 – 07/2015 Postgraduate fellowships, Physics and Chemistry Department, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Project: “Noise analysis in electronic devices of interest for the cooperative upconversion” - PI: Prof. Dr. B. Spagnolo.
09/2013 – 08/2017 UNN Italian PhD student in Radio Physics (without funding/fellowship) of the PhD Institute of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) in the framework of the joint project between the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN) (Russia), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and the University of Palermo (Italy). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Pankratov
09/2013 – 08/2017 Member of the Research School “Oscillatory and Wave Processes in Natural and Artificial Environments” (Radio Physics Faculty) of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (Russia)
01/2012 – 01/2015 PhD Student, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. B. Spagnolo.
Scientific Visits
11/2014 – 12/2014 Research activities at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), for the annual report for the Council of the School, concerning the “Noisy dynamics in long and short Josephson junction”, in the framework of the international PhD
05/2013 – 07/2013 Period of formation/collaboration at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe (Germany), hosted by Prof. Dr. A. Ustinov
09/2012 Research activities at Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Kraków (Poland)