About
I am a Ph.D. student in Quantum Information Theory (QIT) in the group of Antonio Acín at ICFO, in Casteldefells (Barcelona). I was awarded the INPhINIT doctoral fellowship in 2023 by the “la Caixa” Foundation. Broadly, I’m interested in theoretical tools to understand/improve the potential of quantum computers. To have a better idea of my research, you’ll have to wait for me to do it myself, I’m still exploring a lot!
I come from Sovizzo, a little gem in the northeast of Italy. I did my BSc (Physics) and MSc (Physics of Data) at the Università degli Studi di Padova. Before landing in Barcelona, I spent some time in Innsbruck and Massy (Paris) as part of the final year of my Master’s degree. In Innsbruck, I attended some great theory lectures on QIT and gained experience working in a lab with the superconducting quantum circuits group at IQOQI. In Massy, I worked as an applications engineer at Quandela for 6 months (+ 3 remotely after graduation) on demonstrating quantum projective simulation on their general-purpose photonic quantum computer (aka tackling a proof-of-principle task with a cool physics-inspired variational quantum algorithm for RL on a real quantum computer).
Other than research, my main activity for quite some time was spending my weekends with ~40 kids as a scout leader and I miss that a lot. These days, I spend most of my free time running, cooking, and trying to improve my rock climbing skills. I also occasionally participate in (quantum) hackathons, the best result so far being 2nd place at the puzzle contest of QHack 2023.
For more info feel free to check my CV or get in contact with me!