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research

Oct 2021-present - Bank of Italy, Applied Research Team of the IT Directorate, research scientist.

Sep 2019-Sep 2021 - International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Data Science and Statistical Biophysics groups, postdoctoral researcher.

Feb 2020 - Harvard University, Materials Intelligence Laboratory, visiting scientist.

Feb 2019-July 2019 – King’s College London, Physics department, postdoctoral researcher.

Oct 2015-Jan 2019 - King’s College London, Physics and Mathematics departments, PhD student.

Dec 2018 - The Alan Turing Institute, hackathon participant.

July 2018-Sep 2018 - The Alan Turing Institute, summer intern.

Oct 2017-Dec 2017 - International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Quantitative Life Sciences group, visiting student.

education

Oct 2015–Jan 2019 - PhD in Computational Physics, King’s College London.

Sep 2014–Sep 2015 - Master in Applied Mathematics, King’s College London.

recognitions and prizes

• “Agent based modelling at central banks” is featured on the front page of the Central Banking magazine (2025).
• “Robust Policy Design in Agent-Based Simulators using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning” wins the best paper award of Multi-Agent AI in the Real World (2025)
• “DADApy” is included in a “best-of” list as the best unsupervised learning package for use in physics (2023).
• Elsevier outstanding PhD thesis prize (2020)
• Italy made me award (2019)
• IoP PhD thesis prize (2019)
• PRB Editors’ Suggestion (2018).
• student prizes: Runner up for TYC best talk (2018), CNR scholarship (2016), Nelkon prize (2014), Wheatstone prize (2014), Nikon prize (2014), Gordon Rogers scholarship (2013), DAAD scholarship (2013).

peer review

AI conferences - NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AISTATS, others.

physics journals - PRL, PRX, PRB, PRE, Journ. of Comp. Phys., Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, others.