About me

I am a Creative Scientist with a PhD in Physics at INAF - Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. I’m also an Ordinary Member of the Game Science Research Center. As a Creative Scientist, I develop Science Art exhibits about astrophysical phenomena, like INTO THE (UN)KNOWN presented at the 2020 Science Festival in Genoa and at the 2021 Cinema Biennale in Venice. I also create board games that can be used in educational environments, like PIXEL - Picture (of) the Universe.

I did my PhD in the Group of Laser and Plasma at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, working on kinetic-scale effects in collisionless accretion disks. During 2018 I was a long-term visitor at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I received my MSc in Plasma Physics in 2014 from the University of Pisa working on the kinetic effects of ICF hydrodynamics simulations.