Experimental dark matter detection, neutrino physics and particle astrophysics have been the leitmotiv of my research activities. So far I participated in four experiments. ICARUS (neutrino physics), XENON (dark matter), GERDA (neutrinoless double beta decay), CASPEr (axion search). I was part of the writing team of the proposal for DARWIN, in 2009, First ASPERA Common Calls for Proposals and am one of the proposing members of PTOLEMY (Pontecorvo Tritium Observatory for Light, Early-universe, Massive- neutrino Yield) an experiment aiming at cosmological neutrino background and light dark matter direct measurement.

In my career in academia I would like to keep my original engagement in astroparticle physics. My main expertise is in:

1. Detector design
2. Cryogenics
3. Low-level background techniques
4. Advanced data analysis
5. Monte Carlo Simulations

These are the pillars of my research activities and expertise acquired up to now. I however intend to keep enlarging my "field of action" and widening the spectrum of my expertise. Finally my other interest, together with research, is education. I am currently the responsible of two courses in the bachelor and master’s degree in physics at the University of L’Aquila and am quite enthusiastic both about the outcome and about some new techniques based on "flipped learning" that I'm trying to implement and refine year after year. I've always believed that knowledge transfer enriches both the learner and the teacher; I experienced (and keep experiencing) it as a learner and I'm now consciously acknowledging it as a teacher.