I am an Assistant Professor of physics at Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy) since March 2025. I previously held a tenure-track fellowship at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (China), was a “Fellini” Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) (Italy), a Fellow at the Gravitation, AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) (Netherlands), and a postdoctoral researcher at NORDITA in Stockholm (Sweden). I graduated from The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT (USA).

My research spans various topics in particle astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. I have focused particularly on the axion as a dark matter candidate, for which I co-wrote a review on Physics Report in 2020. I also collaborated on an influential paper on the Hubble tension in 2021.

In 2023, I was awarded a Research Fund For International Scientists grant by the National Science Foundation of China for the project “Astrophysical Axion Laboratories”. In 2022, I was 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 46 according to Inspire-HEP, and my Erdös number is 4.