My academic journey began at the University of Padua (Italy), where I got my bachelor (2011) and master (2013) degrees in physics. During my undergraduate studies, I was also a scholar at the Galilean School of Higher Education, from which I graduated in 2014. As I progressed further in my studies, I privileged elective courses in theoretical physics and astrophysics.
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I worked on my PhD thesis on theoretical modelling of the physics of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), and earned my doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg in 2017.
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I then moved to the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh for my first postdoctoral position (2018), which included a joint position with the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2022. During this time, my research focused on: the impact of stellar and black-hole-driven outflows on galaxy formation and on the large-scale structure of the universe; theoretical models of star formation; the foundations of the standard cosmological paradigm.
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In 2022, I took up a new postdoctoral position at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. Besides continuing my previous research lines, I am studying how astrophysical processes on sub-galactic scale impact the dark matter distribution around galaxies.
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I have been using several state-of-the-art cosmological numerical simulations. I am a full member of the SIMBA simulation team, and have close collaborator status within the MillenniumTNG and Flamingo projects. I also joined the quasar team within the WEAVE survey collaboration, which is undertaking one of the major observational campaigns of this decade. I am part of the DeepThought project, a dual and interdisciplinary research-outreach endeavour to further our understanding of the emergence of life in the universe.