Docenti e ricercatori
Research Area: PHYS-01/A - Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali e Applicazioni
L.go B. Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa (PI), Italy.
Research activities
My main research interests focus on instrumentation, simulation and data analysis for high-energy astrophysics. I have extensive experience in the design of innovative detector systems, and I have provided substantial contributions to the development, operation and scientific exploitation of the NASA Fermi Large Area Telescope—a space-based, high-energy gamma ray telescope launched in 2008—and IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a new-generation X-ray telescope with unique polarimetric capabilities launched in 2021, of which I am the Italian Co-Principal Investigator.
Recent publications
- Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS [2026]
- First experimental characterization of a low-pressure nitrogen filled parallel-plate ionization chamber for UHDP electron beam dosimetry [2026]
- Numerical simulations of charge transport in low-pressure noble gases for ultra-high dose per pulse applications [2026]
- ASIX: Single-photon, energy resolved X-ray imaging with 50 μm hexagonal hybrid pixel [2025]
- Analysis of Crab X-Ray Polarization Using Deeper Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer Observations [2024]
Courses
- ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS / ASTROPARTICELLE (Cod. 192BB) CdS WFIR-LM FISICA (Registro)
- ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS S / ASTROPARTICELLE S (Cod. 063BB) CdS WFIR-LM FISICA (Registro)
- COMPUTING METHODS FOR EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS AND DATA ANALYSIS (Cod. 360BB) CdS WFIR-LM FISICA (Registro)
- COMPUTING METHODS FOR EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS AND DATA ANALYSIS (Cod. 360BB) CdS WFIR-LM FISICA (Registro)
- LABORATORIO 1 ED ELEMENTI DI COMPUTAZIONE (Cod. 0044B) CdS FISR-L FISICA (Registro)