I am an Assistant Professor in physics at Università degli Studi di Salerno in Salerno since March 2025. Previously, I was a tenure-track Fellow at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) on 2021-2025, a “Fellini” Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Italy, a Fellow at the Gravitation, AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA), and a postdoc at NORDITA in Stockholm, Sweden. I graduated from The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT (USA).
My research activity spans various interesting topics including particle astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. I have focused on exploring the role the axion as a dark matter candidate, for which I co-wrote a review on Physics Report in 2020. I have collaborated on an impactful paper on the Hubble tension in 2021.
I have been awarded a Research Fund For International Scientists grant by the National Science Foundation of China in 2023, with the project titled “Astrophysical Axion Laboratories”. In 2022, I have been the co-recipient of the prestigious Buchalter Cosmology Prize for “opening new, unforeseen vistas for the scientific scope of direct detection dark matter experiments”.
My h-index is 44 according to Inspire-HEP, and my Erdös number is 4.
PhD in Physics, 2011
The University of Utah
MSc in Physics, 2011
The University of Utah
BSc in Physics, 2007
University of Bologna, Italy
Selected media coverage of my research
Ten representative publications
For full list of publications and preprints with bibliometric details see
my INSPIRE profile, my ORCID profile, and my Google Scholar profile.