IN SHORT
I was born in Treviglio (Italy) in 1984. I earned a Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering at the Milan Polytechnic with an experimental work on magnetic manipulation of Pickering crude oil/water emulsions. In 2009 I moved to the University of Stuttgart where I obtained a PhD in Physics working on self-propelled Janus particles. In 2013 I moved to ETH Zürich where I was awarded an ETH postdoctoral fellowship to study the mechanical response of colloidal monolayers under shear. I was then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Laboratory for Theoretical and Physical Chemistry in Oxford, working on active colloidal crystals and glasses. Since 2020 I lead the Institute of Experimental Colloidal Physics at Heinrich-Heine University in Duesseldorf.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
2014 - 2017
ETH Zürich, Dept. of Materials
ETH Fellow
FUNDED PROJECTS
Optical Tweezers
Stochastic Thermodynamics
Coming soon
2010 - 2013
Active Brownian particles tunable by light
Marie Curie Initial Training Network - ITN Comploids
2014 - 2016
Colloidal monolayers under shear
ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship - FP7 Seventh Framework Programme
2017 - 2019
MicACol - Microrheology of two-dimensional active colloidal crystals and glasses
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship - MSCA H2020
2019 - 2020
Active colloidal glasses
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - Advanced Mobility Programme
2015 - 2018
Phoretic micro-swimmers at liquid-liquid interfaces: a new route towards active materials
ETH Research Grant - in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Lucio Isa