Curriculum Vitae

Employment

1. May 2025 – present

   Postdoctoral Researcher (research contract)

   Università degli Studi di Padova

2. Oct 2023 – May 2025

   Postdoctoral Researcher

   Università degli Studi di Padova

Education

1. Oct 2020 – Dec 2023

   PhD in Physics

   Università degli Studi di Padova — Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Caciolli · Defended 13 December 2023

2. Sep 2018 – Sep 2020

   MSc in Physics

   Università degli Studi di Padova — 110/110

3. Sep 2015 – Dec 2018

   BSc in Physics

   Università degli Studi di Padova

Research experience

1. Feb 2020 – present

   LUNA experiment

   Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, INFN, Italy

   • —Working Group Leader for the ¹⁹F + p measurement (since 2024)
   • —Led the analysis and half of the measurement campaign of the ¹²C + p and ¹³C + p experiments
   • —DAQ Coordinator (since 2024) — design, deployment and operation of the data acquisition and slow-control systems across LUNA's campaigns and at the new Bellotti Ion Beam Facility
   • —Calibration of the 3.5 MV Singletron accelerator of the Bellotti Ion Beam Facility
   • —Fine-tuning of the Geant4 simulation for BGO and HPGe set-ups
   • —R-matrix evaluation for ¹²C + p, ¹³C + p, ²⁰Ne + p and ²²Ne + p reactions

2. Jun 2025 – present

   AZURE2 R-matrix code

   Maintainer and Lead Developer

   • —Maintainer of an R-matrix code used internationally by the nuclear astrophysics, IAEA nuclear-data evaluation and materials-analysis communities
   • —Design and implementation of new features, the GUI and the documentation
   • —Support and training for the international user community across academia, national laboratories and the IAEA

3. Jun 2024 – present

   CRYRING

   GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

   • —Study of the screening effect through the ¹⁵N + p reaction in inverse kinematics

4. Nov 2023 – present

   AGATA set-up

   Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Italy

   • —Spokesperson for the sub-femtosecond lifetime measurement of the 6.79 MeV state in ¹⁵O with the AGATA γ-ray tracking array
   • —Led the complete data analysis pipeline (Doppler correction, kinematic reconstruction, Geant4 simulation, Bayesian extraction of the lifetime); manuscript under review at Nature Physics

5. Feb 2024 – Mar 2024

   Dalton Cumbrian Facility

   Westlakes Science Park, Moor Row, UK

   • —Energy calibration of the 2.5 MV Pelletron accelerator

6. Oct 2020 – May 2023

   HEAT experiment

   Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Italy

   • —Study of hydrogen desorption from carbon targets by ion-beam analysis

7. Feb 2019 – Feb 2020

   GALILEO set-up

   Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Italy

   • —Characterization of the GALTRACE silicon detector with neural networks

Projects

1. May 2026 – May 2031

   GENESIS

   Quantum-Enhanced Evaluation of Nuclear Reaction Cross Sections in R-Matrix Theory · Funded (NSF, USA) · Role: Participant

Awards and appointments

1. Feb 2026

   Villi Prize, INFN

   Italy — INFN prize for the best PhD thesis

2. Feb 2025 – present

   Honorary Fellow

   School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK — in recognition of contributions to supervision and research

3. Oct 2024 – present

   IAEA INDEN network for light elements (INDEN-LE)

   International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna — invited member of the IAEA INDEN network for light elements (INDEN-LE), which evaluates their nuclear cross sections for research and industry

Invited contributions

1. Sep 2026

   Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics XII (NPA XII)

   Nuclear Physics at LUNA and with the AGATA array

2. Oct 2025

   Seminar, University of Notre Dame

   South Bend, Indiana, USA

   A Young Eye on Ancient Stars: contemporary experimental approaches to nuclear astrophysics measurements and extrapolations

3. Mar 2025

   20th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics

   Russbach, Austria

   Lecture: Probing the Stars Beneath Our Feet — underground proton capture reactions

4. Jun 2024

   AZURE2 R-matrix Summer School

   Edinburgh, UK

   Lecture: Uncertainty Estimation for R-matrix Analysis

5. Jun 2023

   R-matrix Workshop on Methods and Applications

   Athens, Ohio, USA

   Talk: Proton Capture on Carbon Isotopes

Organization and committees

1. Jul 2026

   R-Matrix Workshop on Methods and Applications

   Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA

   Member of the International Committee

2. Jun 2026

   Carbon Burning: Theory, Astrophysics and Experiments Workshop

   Padova, Italy

   Chair

3. Jul 2025

   HELIUM Workshop

   HZDR, Dresden, Germany

   Co-chair

4. 2024–2025

   IReNA Online Seminar Organizing Committee

   Member

5. May 2023

   2nd Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics Summer School

   East Lansing, Michigan, USA

   Member of the Organizing Committee

Selected participation

1. May 2025

   29th International Nuclear Physics Conference

   Daejeon, South Korea

   Talk: Preliminary study of the ¹⁹F + p at LUNA

2. Aug 2024

   Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics

   Zakopane, Poland

   Talk: New results on proton capture on neon isotopes

3. Nov 2023

   ALPACA: Modern Algorithms in Machine Learning and Data Analysis

   Trento, Italy

   Talk: Neural networks for nuclear astrophysics

4. Jun 2023

   16th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanism

   Varenna, Italy

   Talk: Proton capture on carbon isotopes

5. Jun 2022

   ChETEC-INFRA 2nd General Assembly

   Padova, Italy

   Talk: ¹²C(p,γ)¹³N cross section measurement at Felsenkeller

6. May 2022

   JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics

   South Bend, Indiana, USA

   Talk: Study of proton capture on carbon isotopes at LUNA

7. Sep 2021

   16th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos

   Online

   Poster: Measurement and analysis for a study of ¹²C(p,γ)¹³N and ¹³C(p,γ)¹⁴N

8. 2020–2022

   Schools and national congresses

   11th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (Catania, 2022) · Euroschool on Exotic Beams (2021) · 57th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics (2021) · Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics (2021) · 106° and 107° Congresso Nazionale SIF (talks, 2020/2021)

Teaching

1. 2024, 2026

   Joint Lecturer

   Nuclear Astrophysics PhD course, Università degli Studi di Padova

2. 2020–2025

   Teaching Assistant

   Physics Laboratory, Università degli Studi di Padova (five academic years)

Supervision

1. 2022–present

   PhD theses

   Co-supervision of R. Biassisi (from 2024) and E. Pilotto (from 2022), Università degli Studi di Padova

2. 2023–2025

   Master's theses

   Co-supervision of T. Tasnim (2025), M. M. S. Nusir (2024), A. Vigolo (2023), Università degli Studi di Padova

3. 2023–2025

   Bachelor's theses

   Co-supervision of A. Lorenzetto, T. Prins (2025), M. Ponchio, E. D'Amore (2024), L. Cavezza (2023), Università degli Studi di Padova

Outreach

1. 2024

   Stelle sulla Terra

   Nuclear astrophysics for children with disabilities, UniPD

2. 2023

   Project Asimov · Project RadioLab · Science4All

   Scientific essays for high-school students (INFN); communication on environmental radioactivity (INFN); nuclear astrophysics stand (UniPD)

3. 2021–2022

   Astrofisica Nucleare

   Transversal skills and career guidance for high-school students (PCTO), UniPD

Skills

Languages

Polish (native) · Italian (fluent) · English (advanced)

Coding

C++ · Python · PyTorch · ROOT · TCP/IP · Docker · Grafana · Graphite · Qt · XDAQ · Geant4 · Verilog

Research

R-matrix analysis · advanced statistical methods · data acquisition systems · radiation spectroscopy · detector characterization · target characterization · Monte Carlo techniques · uncertainty estimation