I am currently a postdoc at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette (Paris), working in the group of Julio Parra-Martinez and Slava Rychkov.

Before moving to IHÉS, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the High Energy Theory group at Columbia University, New York, where I worked primarily with Alberto Nicolis and Lam Hui. I obtained my PhD in theoretical physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, where my PhD advisor was Roberto Contino and I also worked with Enrico Trincherini.

Research Interests

I am a theoretical physicist and in my research I address questions mainly motivated by the theory of fundamental interactions. My current research is focused on Quantum Field Theory, from its formal side to its applications to the theoretical study of gravity, the dynamics of gauge theories, and the study of field theories in non-trivial backgrounds. This includes black holes and cosmological backgrounds, and finite density phases of relativistic QFTs. I have also worked on phenomenological aspects of particle physics, including the strong CP problem, the QCD axion, and dark matter. I keep an interest in the mathematical side of theoretical physics.

Recent Updates

Articles
Hadamard tails from flat-space perturbation theory (with A. Chavda, A. Nicolis and J. Staunton), [2510.25827]
Naturalness of vanishing black-hole tides (with J. Parra-Martinez), [2510.20694]
Microcausality without Lorentz invariance (with L. Hui, A. Nicolis and S. Zhou), JHEP 07 (2025) 188 [2502.04215]

Upcoming talks and workshops
January 13 2026, Higgs Centre, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
January 23 2026, CPT Marseille (France)
February 3 2026, Israeli Gravity Seminar (online)
February 6 2026, LPTHE Jussieu (France)
February 9-13 2026, Quantum Gravity and Cosmology 2026, Bologna (Italy)
March 16-20 2026, Black Hole Perturbations and Holography, IGAP Trieste (Italy)
April 22 2026, Università di Padova (Italy)
June 29 - July 3 2026, Contours 2026 – EFTs Meet the Schwinger–Keldysh Formalism, DAMTP Cambridge (UK)

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, cum laude, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2017-2020
• M.Sc. (Diploma di Licenza) in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2012-2017
• M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Università di Pisa, 2015-2017
• B.Sc. in Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Università di Pisa, 2012-2015