Bio and CV

A detailed CV can be found here (updated 03/3/2026). 

 

Education

  • 2023 PhD Applied Mathematics, University of Namur (Belgium) - Supervisor: Professor Timoteo Carletti
  • 2018 MSc Applied Mathematics, University of Florence (Italy)  -  Erasmus 2016/2017 Fall Semester University of Granada (Spain)
  • 2015 BSc Physics and Astrophysics, University of Florence (Italy)

My Master and PhD Theses, both carried out in Namur with Professor Timoteo Carletti, can be found at my old Unamur page.

 

Positions

  • Nov 2025 - present: Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (Japan) 
  • Nov 2025 - present: Visiting Researcher,  group of Professor Hiroya Nakao, Institute of Science Tokyo (Japan)
  • Oct 2023 - Oct 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology / Institute of Science Tokyo (Japan) - group of Professor Hiroya Nakao (Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 Postdoc / Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 JSPS Research Fellow)
  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2023: PhD Student, Department of Mathematics & naXys, University of Namur (Belgium)  - group of Professor Timoteo Carletti (Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 Teaching Assistant / Jan 2020 - Sep 2023 FNRS-FRIA PhD Fellow)
  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2019: Marie Curie ESR, Department of Molecular Biology & AIIMS, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - group of Professor Bas Teusink

 

Grants

  • Jun 2026 - FRS-FNRS (Belgium) - 1 year funding - Success rate ~ 10% (grant refused due to starting date conflict)
  • Sep 2024 - RIKEN SPDR (Japan) - 3 years funding
  • Aug 2024 - JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Japan) - 2 years funding - Success rate ~10%
  • Dec 2019 - FNRS-FRIA PhD Fellowship (Belgium) - 4 years funding - Success rate ~30%
  • Various smaller grants for few months/weeks research visits (Erasmus, FNRS, École Doctorale Thématique FNRS, naXys, Royal Accademy of Belgium, Complex Systems Society)

 

Awards

  • Feb 2026 - Best Poster Award, NetSciX 2026 Conference, Auckland (New Zealand)
  • Nov 2023 - Best Poster Award, ICMMA 2023 Conference, Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan)
  • Sep 2018 - Graduation Prize (Premio di laurea), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science "Ulisse Dini", University of Florence (Italy)

 

Research Visits

  • July 2026 (1 week), University of Namur, Namur (Belgium), Department of Mathematics, group of Prof. Timoteo Carletti.
  • June 2026 (1 week), Ryukoku University, Otsu (Japan), Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, group of Prof. Takeshi Fukao.
  • May 2026 (1 week), University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), Department of Physics, group of Prof. Albert Díaz-Guilera. 
  • Jan 2026 (1 week), VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Amsterdam Center of Dynamics and Computation, group of Prof. Christian Bick.
  • Sep 2025 (1 week), University of Florence, Florence (Italy), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, group of Prof. Francesca Di Patti.
  • Nov 2024 (1 week), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing (China), College of Aerospace Engineering, group of Prof. Jinjie Zhu.
  • Sep 2024 (2 weeks), University of Namur, Namur (Belgium), Department of Mathematics, group of Prof. Timoteo Carletti.
  • Jul-Aug 2024 (2 weeks), Future University of Hakodate, Hakodate (Japan), Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems, group of Prof. Yuzuru Kato.
  • Jan 2024 (1 week), University of Naples Federico II, Naples (Italy), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, group of Prof. Francesco Lo Iudice.
  • Sep 2023 (3 weeks), University of Linköping, Linköping (Sweeden), Department of Systems and Control, ELLIIT focus period of control and dynamics on networks, Invited by Prof. Claudio Altafini.
  • Jul 2023 (1 week), Kagoshima University, Kagoshima (Japan), Graduate School of Science and Engineering, group of Prof. Shigefumi Hata.
  • May-Aug 2023 (3 months), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (Japan), Department of Systems and Control Engineering, group of Prof. Hiroya Nakao.
  • May 2023 (1 week), Florida State University, Tallahassee (FL, USA), Department of Mathematics, group of Prof. Malbor Asllani.
  • Nov 2022 (1 week), National University of Córdoba, Córdoba (Argentina), Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computation, group of Prof. Juan Ignacio Perotti.
  • Sep-Nov 2022 (2 months), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Department of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, group of Prof. Stefanella Boatto.
  • May - Jun 2022 (2 weeks), University of Catania, Catania (Italy), Department of Electrical Engineering, group of Prof. Mattia Frasca.
  • Jan - Feb 2020 (2 weeks), University of Limerick, Limerick (Ireland), Department of Mathematics and Statistics and MACSI, Invited by Prof. James P. Gleeson.
  • May 2018 (1 month), University of Namur, Namur (Belgium), Department of Mathematics and naXys, Invited by Prof. Timoteo Carletti.
  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2018 (Erasmus - 6 months), University of Namur, Namur (Belgium), Department of Mathematics and naXys, Master's Thesis research carried out in the group of Prof. Timoteo Carletti.

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