Personal information and education

• Born in Tettnang (Germania), 1975
• Laurea (cum laude) in Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, July 24, 1998
• Perfezionamento in Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore, January 1999- August 2001.

Academic Positions

• Full professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L’Aquila (Italy), April 2019-present
• Associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L’Aquila (Italy), Decembre 2014-March2019
• Assistant professor at Department of Mathematics, University of L’Aquila (Italy) (2001-2014).

Awards

• Prize Alfredo di Braccio at the University of L’Aquila, December 2000.
• Prize Marisa Bellisario 2011 in the section “I giovani talenti della ricerca d’eccellenza italiana” per le Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche (Nationwide price under the auspices of the Italian President of Republic, http://www.fondazionebellisario.org/new/eng/premio.html)

Grants

• Principal Investigator of the Research Grants of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM), project Gnampa 2009 - Modelli matematici di tipo fluidodinamico.
• Principal Investigator of the Research Grants of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM), project 2011 - Modelli fluidodinamici e sistemi iperbolico-parabolici nelle scienze applicate.
• Coordinator of the LLP-EU Intensive Programme Fluid2Bio 2011, contract N.2011-1-IT2-ERA10-27088.
• Coordinator of the LLP-EU Intensive Programme Fluid2Bio2012, contract N.2012-1-IT2-ERA10-38827.
• Principal Investigator of the Research Grants of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM), project Gnampa 2013 – Stabilità comportamenti asintotici e limiti singolari per modelli iperbolici-parabolici nelle scienze applicate.
• Scientific Coordinator of the research unit of the University of L’Aquila of the European Project “ModCompShock-Modelling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces”, under the  Marie Curie Actions- MSCA-ITN-ETN, Horizon 2020, Grant Agreement N: 642768, October 2015-September 2019.

Visiting at Universities and Research Institutes

• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, March-April 2003
• Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA,  April -May 2005
• Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA,  March -April 2007
• Department of Mathematics, Stanford University , Palo Alto, USA, March 2008
• Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2009
• Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2010
• Visiting at the MAPMO-Le Laboratoire de Mathmatiques - Analyse, Probabilites, Modelisation, Orleans, France, March 2012
• Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2013
• Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM) and Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, April - May 2013
• Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, Novembre 2013
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Canada, May 2015.
• Forschungsinstitut fur Mathematik (FIM)- ETH Zurich, Zurich, Swizzerland, April 2018.

Invited speaker (short)

• Dispersive equations on manifolds, April 9-11, 2008 in Orleans, France
• The Twelfth International Conference on ”Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications” June 9-13, 2008, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• Special Session “Nonlinear Evolution Equations and their Theory and Computation” at the International Conference on Applied Analysis and Scientific Computation 25-28 June 2009, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
• Eighth meeting on Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Fluid Dynamics: Recent results and Research perspectives, 2-4 September 2010, SISSA, Trieste.
• Continuum and kinetic methods in the theory of shocks, fronts, dislocations and interfaces, 20-24 June 2011, Heraklion, Crete.
• Ninth meeting on Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Fluid Dynamics: Recent results and Research perspectives, 18-22 July 2011, SISSA, Trieste.
• Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Models, June, 9 - 14 2013, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), Canada
•  XV International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications - HYP2014, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 28 luglio –1 agosto 2014
• 11th Meeting on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs and Applications -On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Alberto Bressan , 13-17 giugno 2016, Trieste.
• IPERPV2017-XVII Italian Meeting on Hyperbolic Equations, September 6–8, 2017, Pavia, Italy.
• Hydrodynamic models in PDEs, October 22–23, Imperial College London.

Scientific organization

• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the “Conference on Nonlinear PDEs”, L’Aquila, June 5-8, 2002.
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the “Workshop on Dispersive equations in mathematical physics”, L’Aquila, September 25- 27, 2003.
• Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the “Workshop in Nonlinear Waves and Kinetic Theory”, L’Aquila, 5th of June, 2007.
• Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the “Sixth meeting on Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Recent results and Research perspectives”, L’Aquila, July 17–19, 2008.
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the The Fourteenth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications, June 25-29, 2012 University of Padova, Italy.
• Vice-coordinator of the LLP-EU Intensive Programme MathNanoSci- “IP2009-When mathematics meets nanonsciences” Alba Adriatica, 7- 19 September 2009, (http://www.mathnanosci.eu), contract N.2008-1- IT2-ERA10- 02999, “IP2010- When mathematics meets nanonsciences”, L’Aquila, 3-21 May 2010, (http://www.mathnanosci.eu), contract N.2009-1-IT2-ERA10-07894, “IP2010- When mathematics meets nanonsciences”, L’Aquila, 5-17 June 2011, (http://www.mathnanosci.eu), N.2010-1-IT2-ERA10-16294.
• Coordinator of the LLP-EU Intensive Program Fluid2Bio-IP2012-If Fluid Dynamics turns to Biology, L’Aquila, 4-16 June 2012, contract N.2011-1-IT2-ERA10-27088,
• Coordinator of the LLP-EU Intensive Program Fluid2Bio-IP2013-If Fluid Dynamics turns to Biology, L’Aquila, 24 June- 5 July 2013, contract N. 2012-1-IT2- ERA10-38837,
• Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the “Tenth meeting on Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Recent results and Research perspectives”, L’Aquila, July 11–12, 2013.
• Organizer of the Special Session “Partial Differential Equations: Ambitious Mathematics for Real-life Applications” at the “Joint meeting of the American, European, and Portuguese mathematical societies”, Porto, Portogul June 10–13, 2015.
• Coordinator of the Local Organizing Committee of  ``16th Italian Meeting of Hyperbolc Equations- IperGSSI2015”, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, October 22-24, 2015.
• Chair of the Organizing Committee of the workshop “Women in Applied and Computational Mathematics”, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, May, 9-11 2018.
• Chair of the Organizing Committee of the “Intensive Program on Fluids and Waves”, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, May 21- June 15, 2018.
  
• Organizer of the mini-symposium “Attempts of a mathematical uprising for re- structuring biomedical sciences” for “Congresso Nazionale SIMAI 2018”, Rome, July 2–6, 2018.