I was born in Trieste on 5th September 1972. Trieste is a city situated in the north-east of Italy, by the Adriatic sea.
On 13th March 1996 I graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics at the Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali of the Università degli Studi di Trieste with a thesis entitled Stabilità per il problema inverso dei crack in un corpo non omogeneo under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Alessandrini.
From November 1996 till October 1999 I attended my Ph.D. studies at Functional Analysis and Applications sector of Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA-ISAS), in Trieste, where, on 22nd October 1999, I defended my Ph.D. thesis.
My Ph.D. thesis is entitled Uniqueness and Optimal Stability for the Determination of Multiple Defects by Electrostatic Measurements. The supervisor of my Ph.D. thesis was Professor Giovanni Alessandrini.
From November 1999 till June 2000 I held a postdoc research assistant position at the Industrial Mathematics Institute of Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, in the project F1310 Estimation of Discontinuous Parameters in Differential Equations of the Spezialforschungsbereich SFB F013 Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing.
During the academic year 2000-2001, I had a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor position at the School of Mathematics of University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Since September 2001 I have been holding a position as Ricercatore Universitario (Assistant Professor) in Mathematical Analysis at the Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (formerly Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche) and at the Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali of the Università degli Studi di Trieste.
I spent the Fall 2007 term as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematics of University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
My research activity deals with the study of partial differential equations, with the main focus on inverse problems associated to them. I am also interested in the Calculus of Variations. I wrote 19 papers, 11 of which as the only author, all of them published in international journals.
I visited for scientific collaboration twice the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (6 weeks in 1999 and 2 weeks in 2007), and once the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (10 days in 2002).
I gave more than twenty invited seminars at conferences or at universities, in Italy and abroad. In particular University of Minnesota (1999 e 2007), University of Linz (1999), University Ludwig Maximilians of Munich (1999), University of Tokyo (2002), Università di Udine (2003), Oberwolfach Meeting (2003), Workshop "Complex Analysis and Inverse Problems", Paris (2003), Università di Firenze (2004 e 2007), Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (2004), Meeting "Inverse and Direct Problems", Cortona (2005), PICOF06, Nice (2006), INRIA, Sophia Antipolis (2006), University of Graz (2007), Politecnico di Milano (2008), BIRS Meeting, Banff (2008), and at minisymposia in GAMM-Jahrestagung 2000, Goettingen, AIP 2001, Montecatini, ICIAM 2003, Sydney, SIAM Annual Meeting 2006, Boston, AIP 2007, Vancouver. I also participated to 30 conferences or schools in Italy and abroad.
I was funded for an individual research program in the framework of the "Progetto GIOVANI RICERCATORI" (year 2001) and I was the coordinator of two GNAMPA project (2008 and 2009). I also participated to various PRIN and GNAMPA projects.
I supervised three degree thesis in Mathematics (laurea triennale) at the Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali of the Università degli Studi di Trieste. I taught various courses in Italy, at the Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali of the Università degli Studi di Trieste, and abroad, at the School of Mathematics of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. I also taught numerous recitation courses at the Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali of the Università degli Studi di Trieste.