Education
Jan. 2017-Dec. 2020: PhD in Computational Chemical Physics. University College London, UK. Advisor: Prof. Jochen Blumberger. PhD thesis: “Electronic transport in nano-scale organic semiconductors from non-adiabatic molecular dynamics”
Sept. 2014-Sept. 2016: M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry (110/110 cum laude). University of Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Benedetta Mennucci; Thesis: “Computational Study of Energy and Electron Transfer in Donor-Acceptor Complexes”
Sept. 2011-Sept. 2014: B.Sc. in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude). University of Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Benedetta Mennucci. Thesis: “Computational Study of Energy Transfer Between Chlorophylls and Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting Complex CP29.” 

Professional Experience
Mar 2025 – Present: Researcher (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato “Tipo A”). Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry. University of Pisa, Italy. NextGenerationEU-PNRR fundings: “Fundings projects presented by young researchers” based on the project Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions “DeNOVO”: Design rules for Novel Organic photoVoltaics from natural phOtosystems through computational modelling.
July 2023 – Apr 2025: Researcher (fixed-term Level III) at ICCOM-CNR, Pisa, Italy. Performed predictive modeling of the structure and optoelectronic properties of soft organic materials. Developed mixed quantum/classical computational approaches and quantum-mechanically derived force fields to study complex systems.
March 2021-July 2023: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Mons (Belgium) in the group of Prof. David Beljonne. FNRS funded post-doctoral fellowship. Investigated the electronic structure, photophysics and transport processes in energy materials including semiconducting polymers, non-fullerene molecular acceptors, covalent organic frameworks, and layered perovskites. Developed structure-property relationships to enhance optoelectronic performance.
Dec. 2020-Feb. 2021: Postdoctoral researcher at University College London (UK) in the group of Prof. Jochen Blumberger. Developed an efficient and accurate non-adiabatic molecular dynamics method to simulate exciton and charge transport in soft organic materials. 

Awards and Academic Achievements
Since Feb. 2025: Elected board member of the CpiC Society “Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds” (https://cpic-society.github.io/ )
Feb. 2024: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. 
June 2023: Chargé de Recherche (FNRS) personal Postdoctoral Fellowship. 
Apr. 2022: Seal of Excellence Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. 
Nov. 2021: Marshall Stoneham Prize Annual prize given for the best PhD thesis in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at University College London.  

Other prizes
Two Best Oral Talk Prizes awarded at:
C-π-C: 12th Symposium Computing π-Conjugated (Grenoble – 13 May. 2022) &
Thomas Young Centre (TYC) Student Day (London – 24 Feb. 2020)

Two Best Poster Prizes awarded at:
Paris International School on Advanced Computational Materials Science (Paris – 26 to 30 Aug. 2019) &
Thomas Young Centre (TYC) Student Day (London –15 Feb. 2019).