Curriculum Vitae

Positions

Years	Position
2023 – now	Senior Scientist, Aspelmeyer group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
2021 – 2023	FWF Lise Meitner Fellow (project M2915), University of Vienna
2018 – 2021	Postdoctoral researcher / research assistant, University of Vienna (groups of N. Kiesel and M. Aspelmeyer)
2017 – 2018	Postdoctoral researcher, Sapienza University of Rome (group of F. Sciarrino)
2016	Visiting researcher, Queen’s University Belfast (group of M. Paternostro)

Education

Year	Degree
2017	PhD in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, grade Excellent cum laude. Thesis: Exploiting path-polarization hyperentangled photons for multiqubit quantum information protocols. Supervisor: P. Mataloni
2013	MSc in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: Multiparameter quantum estimation. Supervisor: F. Sciarrino
2011	BSc in Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: Experimental quantum cryptography

Grants & fellowships

Year	Grant
2024	FWF stand-alone project: Control of motional quantum states for levitated particles
2023	ESQ Discovery Grant: Optimal memory performance: a control-based thermodynamic approach
2020	FWF Lise Meitner Fellowship M2915: Entropy generation in nonlinear levitated optomechanics
2018	SPIE Focus Conference Award

Awards & honours

Year	Award
2023	IOP Outstanding Referee Award
2019	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence
2017	Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion for “Optimal measurements for simultaneous quantum estimation of multiple phases”

Invited talks & seminars

2024: Invited seminar, Innsbruck, Austria. Demons, black holes and nanoparticles: how to talk about time and not be surprised about it
2023: Invited speaker, EQTC 2023, Hannover, Germany. Fast quantum interference of a levitated nanoparticle
2023: Invited seminar, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Levitated nanoparticles and thermodynamics: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the nonlinearities
2022: Invited seminar, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Spatiotemporal control of levitated nanoparticles for nonequilibrium thermodynamics
2022: Inaugural LEVINET Conference, London, UK. Spatiotemporal control of levitated nanoparticles
2022: Bridges between quantum and classical non-equilibrium physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Experimental memory erasure: non-equilibrium states as a resource
2022: Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Prague, Czech Republic. Spatiotemporal control of levitated nanoparticles for nonequilibrium thermodynamics
2019: Conference on Taming Non-Equilibrium Systems, ICTP Trieste, Italy. Levitated nanoparticles in non-equilibrium: toward the quantum regime
2019: II Workshop on Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, Natal, Brazil. Levitated nanoparticles in non-equilibrium: toward the quantum regime
2017: SPIE Photonics West: OPTO 2017, San Francisco, USA. On chip analysis of path-polarization hyperentangled cluster photon states

Selected contributed talks

2024: Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems, Benasque, Spain
2022: Quantum Thermodynamics Conference (online)
2020: SPIE Optics + Photonics Digital (online)
2015: CLEO/Europe, Munich, Germany
2014: 100th National Congress of the Italian Physical Society (SIF), Pisa, Italy

Service to the community

2025: Scientific Board Chair and organiser, ICQE 2025 conference
2024: Chair, Gordon Research Seminar Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime
2024: Guest Editor, IOP focus issue Thermodynamics in Quantum Coherent Platforms
2023: Board member, Quantum Energy Initiative
2021: Organiser, first Thermodynamics of Computation workshop, Vienna
Referee for journals including IOP Publishing titles and PLOS ONE

Outreach

Local organiser of the Lange Nacht der Forschung (Long Night of Research), Vienna
External collaborator, FWF science-communication project Seeker: Die Welt der Quantentechnologie in einem Kartenspiel
Three-hour seminar on light and low-cost school experiments for teachers (Plus Lucis Fortbildungswoche)
Optics experiments for the opening of the COSA Johanneum museum, Graz (2019)
2016 – 2017: Founder and President of the OSA Rome Student Chapter, founder and Treasurer of the SPIE Student Chapter, and founder of RAYS (Rome Association of Young Scientists). Raised €10,100 for educational outreach, organised more than 10 events reaching over 3,000 students and teachers, and brought optics experiments to the European Maker Faire in Rome
Local organising committee, Young IQIS conference

Mentoring

Co-supervised six MSc theses in Rome, all graduating 110/110 cum laude. Mentored early-career researchers in Vienna, and I currently co-supervise two postdocs and five PhD students. See Teaching.