Bio

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

—Anaïs Nin, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, Black Spring Press, 1985, p. 20.

I am a mathematician specializing in applied analysis and partial differential equations. My research program addresses analytical challenges arising in modeling and computation in the applied sciences.

I am a Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTT) in Mathematical Analysis at the Polytechnic University of Bari in the Dept. of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management (DMMM). On Apr. 1, 2026, I’ll join this vibrant institution (double-awarded Department of Excellence) in my hometown, committed to its continued growth as a hub for innovation, multidisciplinarity, and global collaboration.

I am a member of the European Mathematical Society Young Academy for the 2026–2029 term and inaugural coordinator of the SIMAI Activity Group “SMART PDE”.

From Apr. 2025 to Mar. 31, 2026, I was a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa (Dept. Mathematics). In Mar. 2026, I was an OIST Visiting Scholar, hosted by Ugur Abdulla.

From Sept. 2023 to Mar. 2025, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the “Chair of Mathematical Analysis, Calculus of Variations and PDEs” led by Maria Colombo at EPFL.

From Apr. 2020 to Aug. 2023, I was a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the “Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, in Jul. 2023 under the supervision of Enrique Zuazua. In Sept.–Oct. 2022, a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Universität Münster, hosted by Christian Seis and supported by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster: Dynamics–Geometry–Structure.

From Mar. 2018 to Mar. 2020, I was a Master’s student in Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (advisors: Stefano Bianchini, Giuseppe Maria Coclite, and Luciano Lopez), graduating with a final mark of 110 e lode. From Sept. 2014 to Mar. 2018, I was a Bachelor’s student in Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (advisors: Giuseppe Maria Coclite and Mario Michele Coclite), also graduating with 110 e lode.

From Feb. to Sept. 2019, I held an internship position at BCAM, supervised by Nicole Cusimano and Félix del Teso. From Sept. to Dec. 2018, I held a research training fellowship for undergraduate students at SISSA, under the supervision of Stefano Bianchini. From Jun. to Aug. 2018, I interned in Julian Fischer‘s research group at ISTA.

Here is my long-form Curriculum Vitæ et Studiorum: CV (ENG) & CV (ITA).