I love to solve problems. I love to know things. I love to teach things to people. I love to be right, but most likely I am not.
I imagine things. I play, hard. I cry during Pixar movies. I get easily excited about very random stuff.
I’m an experimental researcher with a Quantum Optics and Quantum Information background. I have researched the topics of quantum computation, quantum metrology and quantum thermodynamics in various experiments on integrated photonic platforms. My research interests are focused on the connection between thermodynamics and information theory. Today, I work with optically levitated nanoparticles in non-linear potentials to understand:
1. What happens to the energy of a system when you introduce nonlinear dynamics (quantum/stochastic thermodynamics)
2. How do you make a (very small) quantum mechanical state evolve nonlinearly? And what happens when you do? (macroscopic quantum mechanical superposition)
My life is split between these two goals, which I am happily pursuing as an Assistant Researcher in the labs of Prof. Markus Aspelmeyer (https://aspelmeyer.quantum.at/) and Prof. Nikolai Kiesel (https://kiesel.univie.ac.at/) at the University of Vienna.
I was educated by fire and photons by Prof. Paolo Mataloni and Prof. Fabio Sciarrino (https://www.quantumlab.it/) at “Sapienza University of Rome”, where I did… well everything: bachelor, master, PhD and a postdoc in the topic of photonic quantum information. It was there that I found my passion for the quantum world, and for the informational aspect of thermodynamics. To both of them, I am immensely grateful!
