CV

(for more details, see my CV):

• 2026 Visiting Researcher, University of Iceland

• 2024-ongoing: Assistant Professor, University of Genoa 

• 2023-2024: Post-doctoral research fellow, work done in collaboration with Profs. A. Trucco, S. Serpico, G. Moser (UniGe), and Prof. J. Zerubia (INRIA)

• 2020-2023: Double Ph.D. (excellent cum laude) in Science and Technologies for Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Genoa, and in Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, INRIA, supervised by Prof. Gabriele Moser and Prof. Josiane Zerubia

• 2018-2020: M.Sc. level certificate, IANUA, Institute of Higher Studies of the University of Genoa

• 2018-2020: Double M.Sc. (summa cum laude e dignità di stampa) in Internet and Multimedia Engineering, University of Genoa, and in Signal Image Systèmes Automatique (Master SISEA, Université de Rennes I), Major in Mathematical and Computational Engineering, IMT Atlantique (Grande École Mines-Télécom)

• 2015-2018: B. Sc. (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, University of Genoa

• IEEE GRSS Mikio Takagi Student Prize (best Student Paper Award) at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS, 2021. 

• IEEE GRSS Master Thesis Prize issued by the Italian Chapters of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), 2021.

• Prix d’excellence, Université Côte d’Azur (France), 2021. 

• Prize for Talent and Merit, Orientamenti 2021, Regione Liguria (Italy), 2021.

• Vinci Project funding to support joint PhD projects, Université Franco-Italienne, 2022.

• Best Project Award at the EURASIP – IEEE SPS Summer School on Remote Sensing and Microscopy Image Processing, 2024.

• Best PhD thesis prize (prix de la parité), Ecole Doctorale STIC, Université Côte d’Azur (France) 2024.

• IEEE GRSS PhD Thesis Prize issued by the Italian Chapters of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), 2025.

• Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei, Rotary Distretto 2032, 2025

• IEEE GRSS European Best PhD Thesis Prize issued by the European Chapters of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), 2025.

• SIM4PRISMA2G, “SIMulazione di immagini in radianza spettrale per la missione PRISMA di Seconda Generazione”, funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI) and coordinated by Prof. N. Acito, University of Pisa, Italy, 2024-2026.

• Climate Change Initiative Extension (CCI+) Phase 2 - New Essential Climate Variables - High Resolution Land Cover, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and coordinated by Prof. L. Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy, 2024-2027.

• RAISE, “Robotics and AI for Socio-economic Empowerment”, funded within the Next Generation EU / PNRR, program (“Ecosistema dell’Innovazione”); Spoke 2 coordinated by Dr. L. De Michieli, Italian Institute of Technology; 2023-2024.

• PRISMALearn, “Tecniche avanzate di machine learning per la fusione dati e l'analisi di immagini della missione PRISMA”, funded by ASI and coordinated by Prof. S. B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy, 2022-2024.

• MultiBigSARData, “Semi-automatic information extraction from time series of multifrequency and multimission SAR data”, funded by ASI and coordinated by Prof. P. Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy, 2021-2022.

• TIAMO, “IoT technologies for the marine environment”, coordinated by SITEM S.r.l., Genoa, and funded by Regione Liguria (European Regional Development Fund, ERDF), 2018-2020.

• Reviewing activity for several international journals (Neurocomputing, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, IEEE SPM, IEEE TGRS, IEEE TIP, IEEE GRSL, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TCSVT, MDPI Remote Sensing, MDPI Sensors, Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing).

• Reviewing activity for international conferences (IEEE IGARSS, IAPR ICPR, ECML-PKDD, IEEE ICIP).