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Education
28 May 1999, Master degree in Physics with 110/110 cum laude at the
University of Trieste, Italy.
Title of the main thesis : Wanniers functions of cubical semiconductors
and their symmetries. Supervisor : Prof. Alfonso Baldereschi.
Short thesis : Completely positive dynamics and the system of neutral
kaons. Supervisor : Dr. Fabio Benatti.
25 October 2002, PhD degree in Physics at the International School for
Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) in Trieste, Italy.
Title of the thesis : Disordered d-wave superconductors : the role of nesting and interactions in transport properties. Supervisors : Profs. Michele
Fabrizio and Claudio Castellani.
Employments
January 2003 - December 2003, Research fellow, Physics Department, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy.
January 2004 - December 2005, Postdoctoral position, Max-Planck-Institut
f
ur Festkorperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany.
January 2006 - December 2007, Postdoctoral position, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heinrich Heine University of D
usseldorf, Germany.
January 2008 - january 2010, Research position at the International School
for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) Trieste, Italy.
August 2010 - december 2010, Researcher at the Physics Department of
the University of Trieste
December 2010 - , Assistant professor at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy Galileo Galilei, University of Padova
Grants
FIRB - Futuro in Ricerca 2012 : Probing novel phases of matter with
artificial quantum simulators : the in- terplay between disorder and correlations in equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium many-body quantum lattices.
Duration : 36 months, Role : Principal Investigator of the Unit.
PRIN 2011 : Quantum collective phenomena : from strongly correlated
systems to quantum simulators.
Duration : 36 months, Role : Collaborator.
Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo 2011 : Quantum information with ultracold
atoms in optical lattices.
Duration : 24 months, Role : Investigator.
Progetto di Eccellenza Cariparo 2011/2012 : Macroscopic quantum properties of ultracold atoms under optical confinement.
Duration : 24 months, Role : Investigator.
PRIN 2008 : Teoria delle propriet elettroniche, magnetiche e di trasporto
in nanocontatti atomici e molecolari.
Duration : 24 months, Role : Collaborator.
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Seminars
The role of disorder in d-wave superconductors,
Physics Department, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy, June 2001.
Disordered d-wave superconductors : the role of nesting and interactions
in transport properties,
Max-Plank Institut f
ur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, May
2003.
Effect of inhomogeneities on local tunneling density of states in cuprates,
Physics Department, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy, October
2003.
Weak localization in disordered d-wave superconductors,
Institut f
ur Theoretische Physik A, RWTH, Achen, Germany, 4 May 2005.
Weak localization in disordered d-wave superconductors,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 17 May 2005.
Anderson localization for quasiparticles in a d-wave superconductor ,
Heinrich Heine University, D
usseldorf, Germany, 19 May 2005.
Anderson localization for quasiparticles in a d-wave superconductor,
University of G
ottingen, Germany, 25 May 2005.
Fate of the Josephson current for thin superconductors,
in Seminars on special problems in solid state physics, Heinrich Heine
University of D
usseldorf, Germany, 6 July 2006.
Josephson current through a quantum dot,
in Seminars on special problems in solid state physics, Heinrich Heine
University of D
usseldorf, Germany, 23 November 2006.
Superconducting transport through nanoscale quantum dots,
Institut f
ur Theoretische Physik, RWTH, Achen, Germany, 17 April 2007.
Induced superconductivity in graphene,
in Seminars on special problems in solid state physics, Heinrich Heine
University of D
usseldorf, Germany, 28 June 2007.
Crossover from multiple Andreev reflection to Josephson effect,
in Seminars on special problems in solid state physics, Heinrich Heine
University of D
usseldorf, Germany, 20 December 2007.
Interaction effects on transport in d-wave superconductors : a study of
several universality classes,
LPTMS Orsay Paris-Sud, France, 20 January 2009.
Interaction effects on transport in d-wave superconductors : a study of
several universality classes,
Ecole
Normale Superieure Lyon, France, 29 January 2009.
Combined effects of disorder and interactions in some fermionic systems,
LPT - Ecole
Normale Superieure Paris, France, 15 January 2010.
Spin-orbit and weak interaction effects on the supercurrent in a quantum
dot, Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit
at, Freiburg, Germany, 16 June 2010.
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Editorial activity
Referee for the journals :
Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Europhysics Letters, Solid state
Communications, New Journal of Physics.
Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal (Condensed Matter Physics)
Teaching activity
2003 : Tutoring for diploma students in the Physics Department of the
University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.
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