I am a Permanent Senior Scientist and Principal investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. My research falls at the interface between fluid dynamics, soft matter physics and biology, on a topic that presents both a range of fundamental scientific questions and a wealth of practical implications: the formation of bacterial biofilms in flow.
Education
| 2022 | Italian Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (code 02/B1) and Applied Physics (code 02/D1) Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italy |
| 2011 – 2014 | PhD in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta” Politecnico di Milano, IT |
| 2008 – 2010 | Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering Department of Energy and Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, IT |
| 2005 – 2008 | Bachelor of Science in Physical Engineering Department of Physical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, IT |
Current Positions
| Since 2023 | Vice-Chair of the InterPore Program Committee, InterPore2025, USA |
| Since 2022 | Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Italian Soft Days, IT |
| Since 2024 | Principal Investigator, Permanent Senior Scientist, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH |
Previous Positions
| 2018 – 2023 | Group Leader, SNSF PRIMA Grantee, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH |
| 2020 – 2021 | Member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, Expert Group Exchange platform; Member of the Management Team of helpfulETH |
| 2016 – 2018 | ETH Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH |
| 2014 – 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, FR |
| 2010 | Research Fellow, National Institute for Nuclear Engineering (INFN) Summer Student Exchange Program, Accelerator Division – A0 Photo Injector, Fermilab, Illinois, USA |