I am an Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Trento, in the Northern Italian Alps.

My scientific interests are focused on the development and applications of Quantum Monte Carlo methods.

I have been working for several years in collaboration with M.H. Kalos on the search of an efficient and exact (i.e. no fixed-node and/or other approximations...) Diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm for  many-Fermion systems

In the meantime I have been producing some papers in low-temperature physics (liquid and solid Helium and Hydrogen), semiconductor nanostructures (quantum dots, quantum rings, and quantum wires). Recently my attention has turn to many nucleon-systems, with the application of the Auxiliary-Field QMC to the computation of the equation of state of neutron and nuclear matter (for astrophysical purposes, of course...), and trying to match Effective Field Theory with Quantum Monte Carlo.