CV

Education

• Ph. D. in Mathematical Model and Methods in Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2012.ù
  Thesis: Non-conforming high order methods for the elastodynamics equation. [download]
  Advisors: P.F. Antonietti, F. Rapetti and A. Quarteroni.

• Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, 2008.
  Thesis: Formulazioni integrali deboli per lo studio della propagazione di onde: il metodo degli  elementi di contorno”
  Advisors: S. Panizzi and A. Aimi

Current Position

• Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis, MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano

Past Positions

• Dec 2018 - Nov. 2021. Assistant Professor (RTDb) of Numerical Analysis, MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano

• June 2016 - Nov. 2018. Assistant Professor (RTDa) of Numerical Analysis, MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano

• Feb 2012 - May 2016. Postdoctoral fellow of Numerical Analysis, MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano

• Sept. 2014 - May 2016. Annual contract Lecturer, MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano.

• Feb. 2011 - July 2011. Visiting PhD Student, Laboratoire de Mathématiques J.A. Dieudonné, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Supervisor: F.Rapetti.

• Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011. PhD student (with an Italian government scholarship) at MOX-Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano.

National Scientific Qualification

• Apr. 2018. National Scientific Qualification II fascia, Numerical Analysis area (01/A5 - ANALISI NUMERICA).

• Feb. 2025. National Scientific Qualification I fascia, Numerical Analysis area (01/A5 - ANALISI NUMERICA). 

Honors and Awards

• SIMAI Young researcher in industrial mathematics  awarded by the Italian Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIMAI), 2017.

• Best paper prize awarded in the 7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 2015.

• Recipient of funding Finanziamento delle attività di base di ricerca (FFABR) ANVUR n. 20/2017 15-06-2017

Grants as PI/Task Leader

• 1. Research projects 

     • Research project PRIN2022 “Astice” Role: Unit Leader. Funded by MUR, Period 2023 - 2025.

  2. Industrial projects

     •  Research project “Resilienza sul sistema elettrico” Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by RSE, Italy. Period: 2023 - 2024.

     • MRPM II project: “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard enhanced” Role: Task leader. Funded by MunichRE, Germany. Period: 2015 - 2017. 

     • MRPM I project: “Development of a new open-source spectral element based code for the generatio of large scale earthquake scenarios.”. Role: Task leader. Funded by MunichRE, Germany. Period: 2012 - 2013.

  3. HPC projects

     • ISCRA B project: “SSI-RISK: Coupling SPEED with Nonlinear Soil-Structure Models for Seismic Risk Evaluations” Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amount: 460k core hours on G100 cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2021-2022.

     • ISCRA C project: “NZL-RISK:3D numerical simulations of earthquake scenarios in the New ZeaLand region for advanced seismic RISK assessment analysis”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amoun: 64.k core hours on M100 cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2021.

     • ISCRA C project: “STDG4SWP: A new Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin method for the Seismic Wave propagation Problems”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amount:  33.6k core hours on M100 cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2019.

     • ISCRA B project: “GMS4RISK: 3D earthquake Ground Motion Simulations for advanced seismic RISK assessment in strategic areas”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amount:  500k core hours on Marconi cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2019.

     • ISCRA B project: “PBES4HAS: Physics-Based Earthquake Scenarios for Hazard ASsessment in densely urbanized areas”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amount: 8 milion of core hours on FERMI cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2015-2016.

     • LISA project: “T-SPEED: ”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by CINECA, Italy. Amount: 25k of core hours on Marconi cluster, CINECA, Italy. Period: 2016-2017.

  4. GNCS projects

     • Project: “Metodi numerici avanzati per lo studio di problemi differenziali multifisica/multiscala alle derivate parziali”. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by INdAM, Italy. Period: 2018.