About me

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft, previously an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Ulm.

My interests lie in quantum information science and mathematical physics. I like quantum resource theories, especially entanglement, coherence, and magic, continuous variable systems, quantum optics, quantum communication, and foundational aspects of quantum physics, in particular in connection with general probabilistic theories.

Recently I talked about irreversibility of entanglement theory at QIP 2022. You can watch the short plenary talk I gave here.

I was born in the beautiful city of Pisa, Italy, in 1990. In 2009 I won a Gold Medal at the Italian Physics Olympiad, as well as the 1st prize (nation-wide) for the best experimental examination. In 2015 I graduated in Physics with maximum grades from the Scuola Normale Superiore, possibly the top elite university in Italy for physical sciences. In 2017 I obtained my Ph.D., and later the Special Award for Doctoral Studies, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona under the supervision of Andreas Winter.

I have since worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham with Gerardo Adesso (2017-2019), and at the University of Ulm (2019-). Since 2019 I am a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). Together with Gerardo Adesso and Paul Knott, I have been the PI of a Large Grant awarded by FQXi (2020-2021).