I carried out my studies in Italy, at the University of Catania, where I was born and raised! During my Ph.D. in Physics, I studied the production of (anti)nuclei in p—Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV, as well as the production of deuterons in jets in proton-proton collisions and its implications in the underlying mechanism of nuclear formation. I also had the chance to contribute to the construction and commissioning of tracking detectors for cosmic-rays, as well as to the study of extended cosmic showers, within the Extreme Energy Event collaboration. After my Ph.D., I spent two years as a Post-Doc at the Technical University of Munich, where I pursued my studies of the production mechanism of (anti)nuclei, also from the side of phenomenological models, contributing to an event-by-event coalescence model based on the Wigner function formalism. Between 2022 and 2024, I coordinated the Physics Analysis Group devoted to the study of Nuclei and Exotica, in the Light Flavour group of ALICE. Since January 2024, I’ve been a Research Fellow at CERN, trying to add new information to solve the complicated puzzle of nucleosynthesis. 

In my free time, I enjoy reading and watching tv shows, as well as slow-hiking the Swiss and French mountains.