About me

Education

PhD in Physics at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Master Degree in Astronomy at the University of Bologna (Italy)

Appointments: Current and Past

Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies: "The Energetic Universe: An Introduction to Astrophysics and Cosmology", Stanford University (Stanford, USA)

Associate Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova (Italy)

Independent Research, Georgia College and State University

Visiting, Kavli Institut for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University (Stanford, USA)

'Rita Levi Montalcini' Tenure Track, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova (Italy)

Academic Research Associate, Hansen Experimental Particle Laboratory (HEPL) and Kavli Institut for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University (Stanford, USA)

Post-doctoral researcher, Hansen Experimental Particle Laboratory (HEPL) and Kavli Institut for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University (Stanford, USA)

Post-doctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) (Munich, Germany)

Permanent employee, ICT of University of Bolzano/Bozen (UNIBZ) (Bolzano, Italy)

Research fellowhship for technological transfer, Ente Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e lo sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA) (Bologna, Italy)

Professional Experiences

Member Study Science Team of Athena Mission (ESA)
Member of CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array)
Member of SWGO (The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory)
Member of Fermi-LAT collaboration
Reviewer of NASA panels
Member of Italian Scholars and Scientists of North America Foundation (ISSNAF)
Webmaster

Teaching

Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Padova (Italy)
Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford University (USA)
Lecturer of Physics, Technische Universität München (Germany)
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Padova (Italy) (Italy)

Honors and Awards

2016: 'Rita Levi Montalcini' Tenure Track
2015: ISSNAF award winner: Young Investigator Award in Environmental Sciences,
           Astrophysics and Chemistry (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America
           Foundation)
2013: 'Marie Curie Fellowship - Astrofit' (declined)
2012: 'Marie Curie Fellowship - Astrofit' (declined)

Media Appearance

Media Interview on "Science News - Magazine for the Society for Science and the Public":
"General Relativity Caught in Action Around Black Hole"

European Space Agency's website:
The INTEGRAL Picture of the Month

NASA's website:
The High-Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week

Corriere della Sera (Italian nationwide newspaper) about the ISSNAF Award

Media Interview on www.suedstern.org:
"Astrophysics and Science in the USA and Europe"

Funded Projects (PI)

Fermi GI: $99.000
NASA contract NNX13AF13G: $272.520
SAO contract GO1-12144X: $40.275
SAO contract GO2-13139X: $30.235

Selected Scientific Proposals/Projects (PI)

INTEGRAL ToO: Chasing the High-Energy Unkown with INTEGRAL and Swift
INTEGRAL ToO: Setting the Pace for the Variable Gamma-Ray Sky with INTEGRAL
INTEGRAL: Deeply X-raying the Local Universe with INTEGRAL
Fermi GI: On the Nature of the Fermi-LAT unassociated Galactic Sources
Chandra GO: Chandra observations of the faintest hard X-ray sources in the SIX survey
Chandra GO: Chandra observations of the faintest hard X-ray sources in the SIX survey
INTEGRAL GO: The orphan-flare TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650
AGILE: PKS 0537-286, carrying the information of primordial star formation
Swift ToO: PKS 0537-286 (GROND-UVOT photometric drop-out for redshift)
INTEGRAL GO: The orphan-flare TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650
INTEGRAL GO: 1ES 1959+650 new insights into the jet physics
Swift ToO: 1ES 1959+650 in flaring state

Selected Invited Talks and Seminars

The SIX, Italy-USA Innovation Forum - Space Industry, Science and Technology, NASA Ames, USA, October 2019
A Virtual Space Mission build upon Actual Flying Space Missions, Stanford Univerisity, USA, August 2019
The Hunt for Supermassive Black Holes with a Virtual Space Mission, Berkeley, USA, September 2018
The combined survey of Swift and INTEGRAL (Space Science Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, June, 2013
Deeply X-Raying the Universe with a New Virtual X-Ray Mission, Italian Embassy Washington DC, USA, October, 28, 2015
Chasing up obscured AGN with the Swift-INTEGRAL X-ray (SIX) survey Osservatorio astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy, December, 12, 2011
Swift/BAT+INTEGRAL/IBIS hard X-ray survey, University of Ohio, Athens, USA, June, 2, 2010
The SIX survey (European Space Astronomy Center, Madrid, Spain, January, 11, 2010
AGN population and blazar studies with the combined Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL/IBIS hard X-ray survey, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Universite Paris 7, Paris, France, March, 15, 2010