Personal data
- I was born on November 5th, 1979, in Torino
(TO), Italy
- Residence: C/O EMPA/EAWAG Gästehaus 3, Bettlistrasse 11, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Nationality: Italian
- Single
- National Civil/Military Service: exempted for expired term of prescription
Education and formation
- Ph.D. in Physics
- June 16th-23rd 2006: Course Management of Innovation,
organized by Torino Industry Association, Fiat Research Centre,
Polytechnic Institute of Torino, dedicated to PhD students of
Polytechnic Institute of Torino. Subjects of learning: the organization
of the enterprise and the control of its results; Open Innovation;
technologies scouting; public funding of scientific/technological
Research in Italy, methods and procedures; Business Development and
Planning; Project Management of Innovation; Risk Management; technology
transfer; the role of the core competences in Innovation and Product
Development; Knowledge Management for the Product Development Process;
Intellectual Property and its role in Innovation; how to evaluate the
Intangible Capital.
- November 22nd-25th, 2005: course XML for data processing and organization at
Cilea
- July 2004: XIII School of Parallel Computing at Cineca
(with a fellowship)
- MS. in Physics
- Degree obtained: Master of Science in Physics (April 10th 2003)
- Period: September 1998 - April 2003
- Final grades: 110 / 110 cum laude
- Physics Degree
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Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences,,
University of Torino
- Cybernetics and Electronics specialization
- MS. Thesis
- Title:
The role of mechanical pressure, cellular adhesion and apoptosis
in the growth of multicellualr tumor spheroids: physical-mathematical modeling.
- Mentor: Prof. Mario Ferraro,
Department of Experimental Physics,
University of Torino.
- Co-responsible mentor: Prof. Pier Paolo Delsanto, Department
of Physics, Polytechnic of Torino.
- Thesis context: Department of Physics,
Polytechnic of Torino and
Torino-Polytechnic Research Unity INFM-CNISM
(National Institute for the Physics of Matter-Italian National Committee for the Physical Sciences of Matter)
- Project:
Mesoscopic-scale simulations for bridging between the microscopic and macroscopic scales in Physics and Biophysics
(funded by MIUR
e Foundation “Compagnia di San Paolo”
(Torino))
- Disciplines: Biophysics, Biomathematics, Scientific Computing,
Biomechanics, Elasticity Theory and its applications, mathematical modeling,
Tumor Biology, Cellular Biology.
- Diploma, Scientific High School ("Liceo")
Scientific Research (click here
for the details)
- January 1st 2009 - now: Research Scientist, Building Technologies Lab, Dept. of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research)
- July 2nd 2007 - December 15th 2008: Post Doc Research Scholar at the
Nonlinear Elasticity/Time Reversal Team
EES-17 (Geophysics) Group,
EES (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
- November 20th 2006 - July 1st 2007: Graduate Student Research Staff Assistant at the
Nonlinear Elasticity Group,
EES-11 (Geophysics),
EES (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
- January 2004 - December 2006 : Ph.D. in Physics, XIX Cicle,
Polytechnic Institute of Torino,
Dept. of Physics.
- April 15th 2003 – January 6th 2004: Research Fellow at the
Department of Physics
Polytechnic Institute of Torino, Torino-Polytechnic Research Unit of the INFM-CNISM.
Scientific and technical skills
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Theoretical and Computational Physics: Continuum Mechanics, specifically
Elasticity Theory and numerical simulation of elastic (acoustic, ultrasonic, seismic)
wave propagation through heterogeneous materials;
quantum theory of condensed matter; Monte Carlo methods in Materials Sciences;
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Scientific Computing: finite differences methods; finite elements methods;
parallel computing with PC cluster (Beowulf clusters); scalar and parallel codes
optimization for scientific computing;
Soft Computing methods (Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Bayesian methods);
signal numerical processing for imaging purposes;
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Biomathematics: matemathical models of spatial-temporal tumor growth;
biomechanical models of biological growth; Population Dynamics;
reaction-diffusion equations and pattern formation in Developmental Biology;
Dynamical Systems Theory for biological systems;
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Imaging and Inverse Problems Theory: imaging with ultrasounds
for non-destructive evaluation of materials, probabilistic methods for the resolution
of Inverse Problems, Genetic Algorithms for the solution of global optimization
problems involved in Inversion;
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Cybernetics and Mathematical Systems Theory:
characterization and analysis of dynamic systems;
Stochastic Processes Theory for signal processing;
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Basic knowledge of Microelectronics and Physics of electronic devices
(6 months of experience in a Microelectronics Lab);
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Web technologies and Networking: basic knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and
client-server architectures,
development of static e dynamic HTML web pages,
XML-based markup languages (DHTML, XHTML) for the Semantic Web,
database technologies (server MySQL, SQL language,
development of graphical user interfaces to SQL databases);
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e-Science: large scale scientific databases, web platforms for social networking
in Science and Engineering; bibliografic databases; data and images post-processing
through Grid Computing;
- since 2002, experience as a Systems Administrator: GNU/Linux PCs, Beowulf-like clusters of PCs for
parallel computing;
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experience in scientific projects administrative-financial-burocratic
management (look at the list of expired projects
and of running ones I've been involved in.
Computer skills
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High-level programming languages
- C (since 2000)
- C++ (since 2002)
- Pascal (basics)
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High Performance Computing/Parallel Computing
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Machine-level programming languages
- Motorola 6800 Assembly language
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Markup languages / Web Technologies
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Relational Databases
- SQL language
- experience with MySQL R-DBMS
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Operative Systems (O.S.s)
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IDE (Integrated Development Environments)
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Scientific Computing environments
Languages
- Italian: mother language
- English:
- University of Cambridge ESOL PET certification (maximum grade, "Pass with Merit")
- General English Programme certificate,
Kenilworth Language Institute,
Dublin (Ireland), August 21nd - September 18th 2004
(UGAF fellowship for the
study of English, type B)
- "English as a Foreign Language" course ("Advanced 2" level) certificate,
Language Centre of Ireland,
Dublin (Ireland), July 25th - August 5th 2005
- French (High School level)
Awards for achievements in studies
- UGAF
(Union of retired workers of FIAT Group) fellowships, type A, years 1999, 2000, 2001
e 2002 for grades and results obtained in previous academic years.
UGAF
(Union of retired workers of FIAT Group) fellowship,
type B, 2004, for improving English knowleedge and practice
(Ireland, Dublin, august-september 2004)
- INFM-CNISM
fellowship, Torino-Polytechnic Unit of Research, project Mesoscopic-scale simulations
for bridging between the microscopic and macroscopic scales in Physics and Biophysics,
01/05/2002 – 31/01/2003.
- First classified, fellowship for the Master degree in Bioinformatics,
Academic Year 2004,
University of Torino,
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences.
- CINECA
fellowship, XIII
Summer School of Parallel Computing, July 2004, Bologna (Italy).
Volunteering
- Italian Red Cross volunteer (since February 2003 to October 2006).
- Medical First Aid volunteer at the Piemonte Emergency Administration (118) (since February 2003 to October 2006).
- Local technical responsible of the Italian Red Cross: Public Relations, Press,
and ICTs infrastructures (2005 - 2006).
Driving licenses
- New Mexico (USA) state driving license
- European driving license of type B
- European driving license of type B-E (ambulances, special vehicles for emergencies)
- Technical and safe driving license, Piemonte region (2005)
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