Brief CV
Personal Data
Born in Milano (IT), Italy, April 15th, 1980. Italian Citizenship
Married, two daughters (maternity leaves: October 5, 2012 – March 4, 2013 and Aug 17, 2017 – Jan 29, 2018).
Education
2007. Ph.D in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pavia, Italy. Thesis: Domain decomposition, spectral correctness and numerical testing of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods. Advisors: A. Buffa, I Perugia
2003. Graduated in Mathematics cum laude, University of Pavia, Italy. Thesis: The interior penalty method for the Poisson problem. Advisor: I. Perugia
Current Academic Positions
2023 – Head of Laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
2019 – Professor of Numerical Analysis, MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Academic record
2015-2019 Tenured Associate Professor, MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
2008-2015 Assistant Professor (permanent position), MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
2007 Research fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham (UK)
2006 Visiting PhD Student, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford (UK)
2003 -2007 PhD student (with an Italian government scholarship), Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita’ degli Studi di Pavia (IT)
Honors and Awards
2023. ERC Synergy Grant “NEMESIS: New generation methods for numerical simulations” funder by European Union.
2020. ECCOMAS Jacques-Louis Lions young-investigator award 2020. The Jacques-Louis Lions award is awarded every two years by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) to young researchers with outstanding contributions in the field of Computational Mathematics
2016. SIMAI 2015 Prize awarded by the Italian Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIMAI)
2015. SIR (Scientific Independence of Young Researchers) starting grant funded by MIUR: the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
2015. Fondazione Cariplo and Regione Lombardia research grant
2008. F. Saleri prize awarded by the Italian Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIMAI)
2004. S. Cinquini and M. Cinquini Cibrario prize (ex-aequo) awarded by University of Pavia
Plenary Talks and Invited Lectures at International Conferences and Workshops
2025 PoWER: Propagation of Waves, European Researchers, Vienna (AT).
2025. Bergen Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics & Annual Meeting of Interpore Norway, Bergen (NO).
2025. Machine Learning and PDEs, Erlangen (DE).
2025. COLIBRI Focus Workshop on Computational Medicine, Graz (AT).
2024 ECM24: 9th European Congress of Mathematics, Sevilla (ES) (semi-plenary)
2024 ECCOMAS 2024: The 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Lisbon (PT) (semi-plenary).
2024 HONOM2024: High-Order NOnlinear numerical Methods for evolutionary PDEs: theory and applications. Crete (GR).
2024. PAMIR: Simultaneously evolved Point values, Averages, and Moments and their Inter-Relation: Active Flux, Multi-Moment Method, Virtual Finite Elements, and related numerical methods, Maxwell Center, Cambridge (UK).
2024 PINN-PAD: Physics Informed Neural Networks in PADua, Padova (IT).
2023. FVCA10. Finite Volumes for Complex Applications, Université de Strasbourg (FR).
2023 M-FET 2023. ECCOMAS Thematic Conference “III Modern Finite Element Technologies – Mathematical and Mechanical Aspects“, Mülheim (DE).
2023 ENUMATH 2023 – European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Lisbon (PT)
2023. INdAM Days, Università di Salerno (IT)
2022 Scientific Meetings of Italian Mathematics Union – UMI 2022-2024, in occasion of UMI’s centenary, 23 Giugno 2022 (IT)
2021 Swiss Numerics Day 2021, EPFL (CH)
2021 Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium 2021, Technische Universität Chemnitz (DE).
2021 UKACM 2021 – Annual Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics, Loughborough University (UK).
2021 ENUMATH 2021 – European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Lisbon (PT) (postponed to 2023)
2020 Swiss Numerics Day 2020, University of Bern (CH) (cancelled)
2020 SPAN Workshop, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova (IT) (cancelled)
2019 “LIA COPDESC and Lions Magenes Days”, LJLLJ-UPMC Paris (FR)
2019 Scientific colloquia of the Italian Mathematics Union, Bologna (IT)
2019 IperPA2019 – XVIII Italian Meeting on Hyperbolic Equations, Palermo (IT)
2016 SIMAI 2016 – SIMAI biAnnual Meeting, Milano (IT) (Premio SIMAI recipient lecture)
2016 CANUM 2016 – Congress of Numerical Analysis, Obernai (FR)
2016 ICOSAHOM 2016 – International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2013 DDM22 – 22nd International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, Lugano (CH)
2010 SIMAI 2010 – SIMAI biAnnual Meeting, Cagliari (IT) (Fausto Saleri prize recipient lecture)
Boards, Scientific Committees, Institutional Activities and Commissions of Trust
2024-onwards. Delegate of the Italian Mathematics Union (UMI) for Relations with Industries
2024-onwards. Member of the Advisory Committee of the ECCOMAS-IACM International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation (ADMOS).
2024-onwards. Member of the Olof B. Widlund Prize Selection Committee.
2023-onwards. Member of the ICOSAHOM Scientific Committee
2023-onwards Member of the Scientific Committee of Center for Technology Foresight at Politecnico di Milano: a Strategic Advisory Board aimed at looking into the longer-term future of science, technology, and innovation in order to make better-informed policy decisions.
2023-onwards. Member of the Steering Committee of the ATOS Joint Research Center, Politecnico di Milano
2023-onwards. National Center “High Performance Computing, Big Data e Quantum Computing“, Politecnico scientific coordinator for the spoke n.6 “Multiscale Modelling and Engineering Applications”.
2022-onwards. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, VISTA Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics, University of Bergen.
2022–onwards. Member of the Scientific board, Gianfranco Ferrè Research Center, Politecnico di Milano.
2022–onwards. Domain Panel Member – Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences – EuroHPC Regular Access Call
2019-onwards Head of the Admission Committee of the MSc program in Mathematical Engeneering, Politecnico di Milano.
2018-onwards Member of the board of economic auditors (collegio dei revisori dei conti) of SIMAI-Italian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
2017-onwards Member of the Scientific Board of Doctoral program in Mathematical Models and Meth- ods in Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
2023. SIAM Geosciences Career Prize selection committee
2022. ECCOMAS Awards Committee.
2021–2023 Member of the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) Committee for qualification to asso- ciate and full professors (ASN 2021-2023).
2020–2022 Member of GEV 01 (Mathematics and Informatics), National Evaluation of Research Quality (VQR 2015-19)
2020-2021 Panel member of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering at the Academy of Finland 2020
2020-2022 Panel member, National Research Program 2021-2027 (PNR 2021-2027), Italian Ministry of University and Research
2020-2022 Member of the scientific board of the Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano.
2017-2022 Member of permanent working group PoliMI2040 at Politecnico di Milano: a Strategic Planning Advisory Board supporting the Institutional Bodies in developing strategic plans and medium-term visions on teaching and research.
2019–2020 Scientific Committee of the conference “FVCA9 – Finite Volumes for Complex Applications IV” June 15-19, 2020 in Bergen, Norway.
2018-2019 Member of the Admission Committee of the MSc program in Mathematical Engeneering, Politecnico di Milano.
2017 Member of the Evaluation Committee for the Doctoral program in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering (XXXIII cycle), Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano.
2016-2019 Member of ECCOMAS Young Investigators Committee (EYIC).
Editorial Boards
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2020-)
Mathematics of Computation (2022-)
European Journal of Computational Mechanics (2021-)
Mathematics in Engineering (2018-)
Networks and Heterogeneous Media (2024-)
Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models: Theory and Applications (2024-)
Bollettino dell’Unione Matematica Italiana (2023-)
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, specialty section on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation (2022-)