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I was born in Genova
(Italy) on January 16th 1980. I graduated from the University of Genova on march
2004 with a master thesis on the role of turbulence for cloud microphysics.
In 2004 I moved to Nice (France) for my PhD where I worked at the Institut non
linéaire de Nice, under the supervision of Antonio Celani and Andrea Mazzino.
I graduated in 2007 with a thesis on various aspects of turbulent transport; from
the statistics of passive scalar fields transported by turbulent flows, to the fate
of droplets condensing in a turbulent cloud, to the properties of rocky costs.
In January 2008 I switched subject, continent and language at the same time. I moved
to Boston to work in the group of Michael Brenner at the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences at Harvard to work on the physics of microbial systems. I obtained
a Marie Curie international outgoing fellowship 2008-2010 (Harvard) and 2010-2011
(Institut Pasteur, in the group of Massimo Vergassola). In 2012 I went back to Harvard
as an instructor of Applied Mathematics. In 2013 I started an independent position at
CNRS and I moved back to Nice, at the Institut de Physique de Nice
(ex Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée).
I work on diverse problems at the interface of physics and biology, from the biomechanics of bacterial biofilm growth, to the violent discharge and atmospheric dispersal of fungal spores, to the computational principles that govern navigation in mice and octopuses. The thread that connects all of these systems is their fluid environemnt. I am fascinated by the diversity of solutions organisms evolved to understand their fluid environment, even when turbulence makes it unpredictable and risky. How do we make decisions when information is noisy and unreliable? |
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