Professional Experience

• 12/2017-present: Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Universita’di Salerno (IT). 
• 01/2017- 12/2021: Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University (NL).
• 01/2015-05/2017: Group Leader “Quantum Theory of Complex Nanoarchitectures”, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (DE). 
• 7/2010-05/2017:   Permanent Staff Scientist, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (DE). 
• 04/2008-06/2010: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University (NL). 

Education 

• 01/2005-04/2008: PhD student at Salento University, Lecce (IT) and University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome (IT). Supervisors: Prof. Matteo Beccaria, Prof. Carlo Di Castro, Dr. Jose’Lorenzana.
• 09/2001-06/2004: Master Course in Music Studies, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome (IT). Course Violin; Advisor: Felix Ayo. 
• 09/2001-06/2004: Master Course in Music Studies, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome (IT). Course Chamber Music; Advisor: Rocco Filippini.
• 09/1997-09/2003: Master Degree in Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome (IT).
•  06/1997: Degree in Violin, Conservatory of Music “U. Giordano”, Foggia (IT).    

Fellowships and projects involved

• Habilitation (Abilitazione) for full professor - sector 02/B2 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (2018). 
• Research prize of the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden (2016).
• NWO VIDI Laureate (2016). 
• DFG Research Fellowship (2015).
• FP7-FET-OPEN Young Explorers: Coordinator (www.nano2qc.eu) (2014).
• FP7-NMP-2011 EU-Jap project Super-Iron: Exploring the potential of iron-based superconductors (Participant) (2011).

Workshop organization 

• 08/2022 CMD29 "Beyond charge transport in nanostructures and 2D materials via geometric design" , Manchester, UK
• 09/2020 CMD2020Gefes (online) "Spin transport via geometric design at the nanoscale"
• 04/2019 Interdivisional SKM Symposium "Geometry, Topology, and Condensed Matter", ​DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany.

• 04/2017 International Workshop, “Top-Spin 3: Spin and Topological Phenomena in Nanostructures –towards Topological Materials Science”, Dresden, Germany.
•  05/2016  International Workshop, “Top-Spin 2: Spin and Topological Phenomena in Nanostructures”, Groningen, Netherlands.
•  05/2015 International Workshop,“Top-Spin: Spin and Topological Phenomena in Nanostructures”, Salerno, Italy. 
•  03/2013 526 Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar,“FunctionalMagnetic Nanomembranes”, Bad Honnef, Germany.

Invited talks at International Conferences ​

• Focused expert meeting on Interfacing Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter, Warsaw (PL) 2023: Invited Participant  
• Electronic Correlations, Emergent Phenomena and Quantum Materials, Lectiones Amalfitanae, Amalfi (IT) 2022: Invited Participant
• Oxide Superspin Workshop, Kyoto 2021: Invited Participant
• DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden, 2021: Invited Participant
• Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Fisica, L'Aquila, 2019: Invited Participant
• International Conference "SuperStripes 2019", Ischia (IT), 2019: Invited Participant
• International Workshop "Curvilinear Micromagnetism", Kyiv (UKR), 2019: Invited Participant
• XXII Training course in the physics of strongly correlated systems, Vietri sul Mare (IT), 2018: Lecturer

• SuperFox Conference on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides, Fisciano (IT), 2018: Invited participant
• ​Erice Workshop: Majorana fermions and Topological Materials Science,  Erice (IT), 2018: Invited participant
• Symposium Trends in Theory 2017, Dalfsen (NL), 2017: Invited participant
• CMD26 Condensed Matter in Groningen, Groningen (NL), 2016: Invited participant
• MAMA-Trend Workshop, Sorrento (IT), 2013: Invited participant
• 526 WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Functional Magnetic Nanomembranes, Bod Honnef (GE) 
• MAMA-ProTheo Workshop, Vietri Sul Mare (IT), 2012: Invited participant
• Workshop: ECRYS 2008, Cargese (FR), 2008

Seminars and Colloquia 

• 02/2023: CNR-SPIN Institute, Italy 
• 11/2022: Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• 02/2022: Laboratoire de physique des Solids, Orsay, France
• 01/2022: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Germany
• 10/2020: Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, UK 
• 02/2020: Physics Department, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
• 09/2019: Department of Quantum Nanoscience, TU Delft, Netherlands
• 12/2018: Physics Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. 
• 03/2018: Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden. 
• 10/2017: Department of Physics, Salerno University. 
• 02/2017: European Laboratory for non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Florence. 
• 11/2016: The Niko van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University.
• 11/2016: Seminario Struttura della Materia, Universita’di Roma “La Sapienza”. 
• 03/2016: Quantum and Topological Matter Meeting, Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics. 
• 02/2016: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University.
• 10/2015: Department of Physics, Salerno University. 
• 03/2015: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
• 01/2015: Zernike Institute, University of Groningen. 
• 03/2014: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’di Salerno. 
• 02/2014: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht. 
• 12/2013: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne. 
• 09/2011: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’di Salerno. 
• 10/2009: Leibniz Institute for Solid-State and Materials Research Dresden. 
• 05/2009: Physics Department, Stanford University.
• 07/2007: Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden. 
• 03/2007: ICRA seminar, Universita’``La Sapienza'' di Roma. 
• 02/2007: ISC-CNR Rome. 
• 11/2006:  Seminario generale, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’  “La Sapienza'' di Roma

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