Profile
Current position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow · Uppsala University, Sweden (Aug 2024 – present) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow · Dept. of Electrical Engineering
PI of IM-POWER, developing physics-aware ML surrogate frameworks for floating offshore wind farm simulation. See Research for details.
Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow · BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain (Oct 2022 – Jul 2024) High-fidelity numerical modeling for marine and coastal structure performance. Investigation with coupled SPH and multi-body for breakwater simulations.
Honorary Associate · UW–Madison SBEL, Wisconsin, USA (Feb – Aug 2023) Fulbright Schuman Scholar Floating offshore wind turbine simulation integrating DualSPHysics and Project Chrono. Physics simulation frameworks DEM-Engine.
Honorary Visiting Scholar · Queen’s University Belfast, UK (Nov 2022 – present) Coupled dynamics of floating wind turbine platforms under extreme weather conditions.
PhD Researcher · University of Salerno, Italy (Nov 2018 – Jun 2022) Seismic isolation systems for industrial structures. International stays at Queen’s University Belfast, Universidade de Vigo, National Technical University of Athens, and FIP Industriale.
Postgrad Fellow · EPhysLab, Universidade de Vigo, Spain (Jun 2018 – Jun 2019) SPH-based numerical modeling for coastal engineering applications.
Education
PhD in Engineering · University of Salerno, Italy (2022) — European mention MSc in Building Engineering and Architecture · University of Salerno, Italy (2018) — Highest honors
Awards & fellowships
- Best Paper Award — OMAE 2024, Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship — Horizon Europe (2024–2026)
- Fulbright Schuman Visiting Scholar — UW–Madison (2023)
- HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access — Queen’s University Belfast (2022)
Open source & community
- DualSPHysics — core developer and Wiki Coordinator (2018–present)
- DEM-Engine (Project Chrono) — developer (2023–present)
- DSPH-ChronoLib — developer (2022–present)
- Organizer of 3 international SPH user workshops (2019–2025)
- Member of Technical Program Committees: RENEW 2026, SPHERIC 2024–2027
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