I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics (DIMA), University of Genova, within the MIDA group. 

My research activity is focused on developing and applying advanced mathematical methods to address different problems in many scientific interdisciplinary areas, with a particular focus on space weather. Solar image reconstruction, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections forecasting, precipitation nowcasting on extreme events are some of key applications of my reasearch.

The main topics of my research activity are

•  Inverse problems

• Machine and deep learning

• Image reconstruction

• Regularization, optimization and sparsity-enhancing methods

• Evaluation metrics for forecast models

Group member and association

2022-Present: member of Space Weather Italian Community (SWICo)

2017-Present: member of Gruppo Nazionale del Calcolo Scientifico (GNCS)

2016-Present: member of Methods and Image Data Analysis (MIDA) group

2024-Present: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)

Previous Positions

PostDoc, Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova. Advisor Prof. F. Benvenuto; founded by RLOF18ASSRIC/57/1, "Machine learning per la previsione di fenomeni atmosferici estremi sul territorio ligure".  November 2019 – January 2021

PhD student, Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova. Supervisor Prof. F. Benvenuto.

Education

Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Applications, achieved at Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova. Thesis title: "Learning and Inverse Problems: from Theory to Solar Physics Applications". Supervisor: Federico Benvenuto.  November 2016 – February 2020

Master degree cum laude in Mathematics, achieved at Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova. Thesis title: "A multi-task prediction problem by means of structured sparsity: application in solar flare prediction". Supervisors: Anna Maria Massone and Federico Benvenuto.  September 2014 – October 2016

Bachelor degree cum laude in Mathematics, achieved at Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova. Thesis title: "Zeros of holomorphic functions". Supervisor: Gianfranco Bottaro. September 2011 – November 2014

High School Diploma cum laude, Diploma di maturità scientifica achieved at Liceo Scientifico Orazio Grassi in Savona.  September 2006 – September 2011

Awards

I was awarded with Gruppo Nazionale di Calcolo Scientifico (GNCS) Young Researchers project 2019/2020. Project title: "The connection between inverse problems and machine learning with application in solar physics". 

I was awarded at “Notte dei Talenti, dell’Eccellenza e del Merito” by Regione Liguria, 15th November, 2017

Visiting period

3rd - 14th June, 2019 - NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (USA). 

Working on the desaturation problem of SDO/AIA images with Richard Schwartz.