Employment

Current Positions

• Full Professor of Particle Astrophysics, Niels Bohr International Academy and DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2021-present).
• Mercator Fellow (equivalent to Visiting Professor) for the Collaborative Research Center: Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Max Planck Institutes for Physics and Astrophysics, Germany (2017-present).

Previous Positions

• Knud Højgaard Associate Professor of Particle Astrophysics & Astrophysics, Niels Bohr International Academy and DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2017-2020).
• Knud Højgaard Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2016-2017).
• Research associate, GRAPPA, Center of Excellence of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013-2015).
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany (2011-2013).

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Bari, Italy (2011).
• Exchange student, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany (2010).
• MS in  Physics, University of Bari, Italy, summa cum laude (2007).
• BA in Physics, University of Bari, Italy, summa cum laude (2005).

 Awards, Grants and Honors

• EliteForsk Award, Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science (2024).
• European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (2022).
• Villum Young Investigator Plus Grant (2021).
• KIF Prize, Danish Network for Women in Physics (2020).
• Shakti P. Duggal Award, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2019).
• MERAC Prize, European Astronomical Society (2019).
• Sapere Aude Starting Grant (2019).
• Carlsberg Distinguished Associate Professor (2019).
• Diversity Grant, University of Copenhagen (2017).
• Villum Young Investigator Grant (2016).
• Max Planck Research Group leader (2016, declined).
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2011).
• Honorable mention, Fubini Prize, INFN (2011).
• Antonio Stanghellini Award, Italian Society of Physics (2009).

Research Focus

Particle astrophysics, neutrino astrophysics and cosmology, multi-messenger astronomy, core-collapse supernovae, compact binary mergers, gamma-ray bursts, stellar nucleosynthesis, thermal and non-thermal particle production, particle acceleration in astrophysics, transient astrophysics, high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics, beyond-the-Standard-Model physics in astrophysical environments.

Full CV available upon request.