Feb. 2021 - Now: Junior Assistant Professor - Fixed-Time Researcher (L.240/10 type A), Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa, IT 

Feb. 2019 - Jan. 2021: PostDoctoral Fellow (PostDocktor), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, NO. Supervisor: Prof. Henrik Koch

Nov. 2015 - Jan. 2019: Ph.D. in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences (cum laude), SNS, Pisa, IT. Supervisor: Prof. Chiara Cappelli.

Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2015: Master's Degree in Chemistry. 110/110 cum laude, University of Pisa, Pisa, IT. 

Oct. 2010 - Oct. 2013: Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. 110/110 cum laude, University of Pisa, Pisa, IT. 

Oct. 2010 - Oct. 2015: Diploma in Chemistry. Studente Ordinario, SNS, Pisa, IT. 

Sep. 2006 - Jul. 2010: Diploma in Classical Studies. 100/100, Liceo Classico G. Galilei, Poppi (AR), IT. 

2024: CAS Future Leader 2024 - Top 100
I have been selected as one of the top early-career researchers (top 10%) in the CAS Future Leaders 2024 Top100 program, one of the most prestigious recognitions for young researchers.

2023: Starting@UNIPI
This initiative aims to identify the best ideas and help the applicants transform them into competitive proposals for the ERC-StG-2024. My project (CHOPIN) was selected as one of the 15 funded proposals.

2022: Young Physical Chemistry Award
“for the outstanding talk given at the XLVIII National Congress of the Physical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society” (4-7/7/2022)

2022: Italian national qualification to Associate Professor
in “Theoretical Physics of Matter” (02/B2) and “Models and Methodologies for Chemical Sciences” (03/A2) 

2018: Philip J. Stephens Award on Vibrational Optical Activity
for the paper: T. Giovannini et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2016, 12, 5483. This article was elected the best for the two-year period 2016/2017 reporting on research activities (experimental and theoretical) in the field of vibrational optical activity, by the “International Steering Committee” of the VOA conferences.

2010-2015: Fully granted scholarship, SNS, IT.

2023: Co-supervisor of Piero Lafiosca (SNS), Ph.D. candidate in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences (defended 05/04/24). Thesis title: “Modeling light-matter interactions in complex embedded systems”.

2023: Co-supervisor of Luca Bonatti (SNS), Ph.D. candidate in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences (defended 11/07/23). Thesis title: “Modeling nanoplasmonics from an atomistic point of view: from theory to applications”.

2022: Co-supervisor of Dr. Gioia Marrazzini (SNS), Ph.D. in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences (defended 26/09/22). Thesis title: “Accurate Multiscale Approaches for Embedded Systems”

2016-21: Active supervision of the Master's Thesis work in Chemistry of Chiara Sepali, Piero Lafiosca, Luca Bonatti, and Oliviero Cannelli, discussed at the University of Pisa (all evaluated 110/110 cum laude, supervisor Prof. Chiara Cappelli). 

2017-21: Active supervision of the Bachelor's Thesis work in Chemistry of Luca Melega, Federico Rossi, Matteo Castagnola, Patrizia Mazzeo, Laura Grazioli, Rosario Roberto Riso, and Piero Lafiosca, discussed at the University of Pisa (all evaluated 110/110 cum laude, supervisor Prof. Chiara Cappelli). 

2023 -

• PI of SNS unit and substitute PI, PRIN 2022 PNRR
  Title: “hydroPhObic eutectic SolvEnts In water remeDiatiON” (POSEIDON)
  PI of the project: Dr. Maria Enrica Di Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, IT
  SNS fundings: 105 262.00 €.

• Member of the research team (WG1, WG2, WG3) of COST Action COSY “Confined molecular systems: from a new generation of materials to the stars”.

• Member of the research team working on the project PRIN 2022.
  Title: “A seed for the green transition. Tailoring Deep Eutectic Solvents for 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) transformation” SEED4GREEN.

• External collaborator on European Research Council (ERC) AdG n. 101020016 (Prof. Henrik Koch).
  Title: “Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light” (QuantumLight).

• PI Class C project, Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation (CINECA HPC), 32.000 GPU hours.
  Title: SENSORS – “adSorption ENergy of Sars-cov-2 on plasmOnic substRateS” 

2022 -

• PI Class C project, Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation (CINECA HPC), 15.000 GPU hours. Title: SCOOPS – “Sars-COv-2 On Plasmonic Substrates”

• Member of the research team working on the project founded by ex DM n. 289/2021 programmazione triennale (PRO3), programma congiunto delle sei Scuole ad ordinamento speciale.
  Title: “Calcolo scientifico per le scienze naturali, sociali e applicazioni: sviluppo metodologico e tecnologico”.

2021 -

• Member of the research team working on ERC CoG n. 818064 (Prof. Chiara Cappelli).
  Title: "General Embedding Model for Spectroscopy" (GEMS).

• Elected researchers' delegate in the Consiglio di Classe di Scienze, SNS, Pisa, IT for the 2022-24 period.

• Member of the evaluation committee of the JUMP 2023 (Joint Universities prograM for Poc), proposed by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore e Università di Palermo.

• Member of the evaluation committee of the Ph.D. defense in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences (SNS, Pisa, IT) of Dr. Matteo Ambrosetti (defended on 25/07/2022), Dr. Gioia Marrazzini (defended on 26/09/2022) and Dr. Luca Bonatti (defended on 11/07/2023). 

• Member of the Ph.D. board in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences, SNS, Pisa, IT (2021/22). 

• Member of the evaluation committee for admission to the Ph.D. in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences, SNS, Pisa, IT (2021/22). 

• Member of the evaluation committee for admission to the undergraduate course in Chemistry, SNS, Pisa, IT (2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24).

• Member of the evaluation committee of the Diploma in Chemistry, SNS, Pisa, IT (2021, 2023).