I am an Associate Professor in physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Fellow at the newly-founded Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) in Shanghai. Previously, I was a “Fellini” Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Frascati (Italy), a Fellow at the Gravitation, AstroParticles Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA), a postdoc at NORDITA in Stockholm, and a graduate student at 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.
My h-index is 31 according to Inspire-HEP, and my Erdös number is four.
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.