Personal: • Date and place of birth:
10/01/1976 - Messina ( Italy )
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Education:
| 1989-1994 | Liceo Ginnasio Statale "Orazio"
- Roma "Diploma di maturit?Classica", obtained in June 1994 - notation 60/60 (full marks) |
| 1994-1999 | University of Roma "La Sapienza" "Diploma di Laurea" in Physics, obtained in June 1999 with final mark "110/110 cum laude" (first class honour degree). Thesis on "Quantization of the spinor field in Rindler spacetime and analysis of the Unruh effect ", advisors: Prof. Vladimir Belinski and Prof. Remo Ruffini. Subjects studied: Theoretical Astrophysics, General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum fields in Curved Spacetimes, Statistical Mechanics. |
| 2000- | PhD student whitin
the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, subject: non-perturbative quantum gravity, spin foam models; supervisor: Dr. Ruth Williams. |
Scholarships and prizes:
| 2000-2003 | EPSRCresearc h studentship; |
| 2000-2003 | Isaac Newton Trust (Cambridge) research studentship inMathematics; |
| 2000- | Girton College (Cambridge) research scholarship; |
| 2000-2001 | Rouse Ball Travelling studentship in Mathematics, awarded by Trinity College, Cambridge; |
| 2000 | awarded the "Antonio Stanghellini" prize for graduates in Theoretical Physics, by the Italian Physical Society (SIF). |
| 2001 | awarded a distinction in the Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight Prizes competition for essays in Mathematics, by the University of Cambridge, with the essay: "Spacetime geometry from algebra: spin foam models for non-perturbative quantum gravity" |
Experience:
| 1998-1999 | private teaching activity to undergraduate students in Rome; |
| 1999 | editing coordinator of the Proceedings of the 2nd ICRA Network Workshop on "The chaotic universe", Rome-Pescara, February 1999; |
| 1999 | member of the local organizing committee of the 3rd ICRA NetworkWorkshop, on "Electrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics around black holes", Rome-Pescara, July 1999; |
| 2000 | scienti.c research collaborator to the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA) - University of Rome "La Sapienza"; |
| 2000-2001 | teaching activity (supervisions) to undergraduate students at University of Cambridge; subjects taught: classical dynamics, di.erential equations, special relativity, general relativity, foundations of quantum mechanics; |
| July 2000 | visiting scientist at CERN - Theory Division - Geneve - Switzerland; |
| November 2000 February 2001 | visiting scientist (volunteer status) at California Institute of Technology - High Energy Physics department - Pasadena - California - USA; |
| Jan. 2002 | contributor for the "Concise Encyclopaedia of Supersymmetry", Eds. J. Bagger, S. Duplij, W. Siegel, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Jan. 2002, in press; |
| 2001- | reviewer for the journal "Mathematical Reviews", Americal Mathematical Society; |
| 2001- | referee for the journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity", IOP. |
Conferences:
| 1998 | 1st ICRA NetworkWorkshop on "The Lense-Thirring e.ect", Rome-Pescara, Italy, June; |
| 1999 | 2nd ICRA Network Workshop on "The chaotic universe", Rome-Pescara, Italy, February; |
| 1999 | 3rd ICRA Network Workshop, on "Electrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics around black holes", Rome-Pescara, Italy, July; |
| 2000 | 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting on "Recent developments in theoretical and experimental general relativity, gravitation and relativistic field theories", Rome, Italy, July; |
| 2001 | 3rd Workshop on canonical and quantum gravity, Warsaw, Poland, June; |
| 2001 | 25th J. Hopkins Workshop on current problems in particle theory: "A relativistic spacetime odissey", Florence, Italy, September; |
| 2002 | School on "Aspects of Quantum Gravity: From Theory to Experimental Search", Bonn, Germany, February. |
Languages:
| English |
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very good knowledge of written and spoken |
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understanding of written French and Spanish | |
| 1996 | Course attended in English language in London | |
| 1999 | IELTS certificate obtained with overall band score 7.5 |
Computer skills:
IBM Compatible PCs running Microsoft Windows and NT, Word for Windows, Excel, the algebraic manipulator Maple V and Mathematica, Latex System, notion of UNIX
Unpublished material
Extra-curriculum activities
| 1995-1997 | Collaborator and contributor for the university student magazine "La Nottola di Minerva" at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Literature and Philosophy |
Interests & Sports:
Reading (Literature, Philosophy, …) , music
Football, tennis