CV

Education and positions held

  • (2018-present) Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, under the guidance of Prof. Edan Lerner.
  • (February 2018) Qualification aux fonctions de maı̂tre de conférences (qualified for assistant professor duties in France).
  • (2015-2018) Postdoctoral fellow at the department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, under the guidance of Prof. Itamar Procaccia.
  • (December 2015) PhD in Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma and École
    Normale Supérieure, Paris. Mark: excellent (cum laude/très honorable avec felicitations du jury à l’unanimité).
  • (2012-2015) Dottorando in co-tutela (jointly-supervised PhD student) at Sapienza Università di Roma and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the joint supervision of Prof. Giorgio Parisi and Dr. Francesco Zamponi.
  • (October 2012) MSc in Theoretical Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma, 110/110 Cum Laude.
  • (November 2010) BSc in Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma, 110/110 Cum Laude.
  • (July 2007) Maturità classica (high school diploma focusing on humanities), at Liceo Classico Statale Aristofane, Roma, 100/100 cum laude.

Awards and Grants

  • (October 2012) Three-year doctoral fellowship, Sapienza Università  di Roma.
  • (August 2015) “Dean of Faculty” two-year postdoctoral fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
  • (January 2017) “Springer Thesis Prize” for an outstanding PhD thesis defended during the year 2015.
  • (October 2019) SURFsara computing grant of 500000 core-hours on the Cartesius system.

Conferences attended and talks

  • Critical Phenomena in Random and Complex Systems, 9-12 September 2014 Anacapri (NA), Italy. Poster contribution.
  • Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VI, 2-7 February 2015 Aspen (CO), USA. Poster contribution.
  • International Workshop on Dynamics of Viscous Liquids IV, 4-7 May 2015 Montpellier, France. Poster contribution.
  • The role of Local Structure in Dynamical Arrest, 20-23 July 2015 Mainz, Germany. Poster contribution.
  • Cost Action WG3 Meeting on Flowing Matter, 8-12 November 2015 Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel. Invited talk.
  • International Workshop on Jamming and Granular Matter, 13-16 July 2016 London, UK. Poster contribution.
  • StatPhys 26, 18-22 July 2016 Lyon, France. Contributed talk.
  • Departmental seminar, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 6th December 2016, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel. Invited talk.
  • Workshop on Recent Advances on the Glass and Jamming transitions, 9-11 January 2017 Lausanne, Switzerland. Poster contribution.
  • PMMH laboratory weekly seminar; École supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris, 28th April 2017, Paris, France. Invited Talk.
  • Nonlinear Physics Seminar; Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 7th June 2017, Jerusalem, Israel. Invited Talk.
  • LPTMS laboratory seminar; Université Paris-Sud, 12th April 2018, Orsay, France. Invited talk.
  • Condensed Matter Group Seminar; University of Amsterdam, 23rd May 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Invited talk.
  • Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII, 10th-15th June 2018, Bristol, UK. Contributed talk.
  • LPTMC laboratory seminar, Sorbonne Université, 14th February 2019, Paris, France. Invited Talk.
  • PMMH laboratory weekly seminar; École supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris, 24th May 2019, Paris, France, Invited Talk.
  • 26th Dutch Soft Matter Meeting, 17th June 2019, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Invited talk.
  • Procaccia group seminar, Weizmann Institute of Science, 24th June 2019, Rehovot, Israel. Invited Talk.
  • International workshop on glass physics in Beijing, 27th September 2019, Beijing, PRC. Contributed Talk.
  • Physics @Veldhoven, 21-22 Janurary 2020, Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Contributed Talk
  • Simons Collaboration seminar, ENS Paris, 27th February 2020 Paris, France. Invited Talk.

Teaching

  • (2019) The replica method: from spin glasses, to glasses, to jamming, 12 hours, Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics, 25th March – 5th April 2019.
  • (2020) Statistical Mechanics (BSc. level), 24 hours, Amsterdam University College (shared with prof. S. De Haro).

Administrative functions

  • Peer review I serve as peer reviewer for Journal Of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment since August 2016, for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E since February 2017, and for SciPost Physics since March 2018.
  • Conferences Main organizer of the workshop The role of disorder in glass formation and deformation, 15-19 June 2020, Lorentz Center @Oort, Leiden, NL.
  • Panels Member of the PhD defense panel for Mr. Luka Gartner, 3 October 2019, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL.

 

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