About Me
I was born on 15 August 1980 in Grottaglie, a really nice town in South Italy. After I spent my childhood in
San Giorgio Jonico, a small town which is 8 km far from Grottaglie, I moved with all my family to Augusta, Sicily. Well, I have to say that Sicily is an
amazing place, each centimeter squared is to be visited, there are
evidences of all the Mediterranean cultures. I spent two years and half
there in between a wounderful sea and archeological and natural
sites. My "adventure" in Trinacria (Trinacria is the Sicily
ancient name which refers to the triangular shape of the island) ended
in the Summer of 1993, when I came back to San Giorgio Jonico. My life
as teenager went without any particular trouble: my main concerns were
my high school studies at the Liceo Scientifico "Giuseppe Moscati" in
Grottaglie and my handball team (G.S. Stella Jonica) - obviously, I'm
not mentioning all the concerns all the teenagers have... Anyway,
Summer of 1999 was the last one of complete freedom for me because
I got my degree from my high school and in September a new experience
was supposed to start: the Alma Mater Studiorum - Univesity of Bologna, the most ancient
university all over Europe (1088), was waiting (?) for me. It would
take me forever to talk about my five years at University, so I will
say only that I graduated in Physics on 18 June 2004, with a wounderful
party. Unfortunately, my death as university student meant also the end of my amazing experience in
Bologna: Italy is not indeed famous for investing in fundamental science and a decent future perspective
is a utopia, so I decided to go to Canada for my PhD. I got my PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2008 at the
Department of Applied Mathematics - University of Western Ontario and Perimeter Institute. Since September 2008 I'm Senior
Research Associate at Center for Particle Theory and at the
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, in United Kingdom.
Here
you can find my official curriculum vitae.
Here you can find the
list of my publications from
Spires.
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