Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Scholar

    Nikhef / Utrecht University

    Responsibilities include:

    • Anomaly detection and machine learning methods to classify different types of glitches in GW detectors.
    • Advising Bachelors, Masters and PhD students
    • Early warning for neutron star mergers in Einstein Telescope data
    • Supervised by Chris van den Broek and Sarah Caudill
  2. FSR Postdoctoral Fellow

    UCLouvain

    Responsibilities include:

    • Developing methods to detect dark matter interacting with gravitational-wave detectors and inspiraling primordial black holes;
    • Advising students on searches for gravitational waves from vector boson clouds around black holes and a stochastic background
    • Building up a gravitational-wave group, organizing seminars, mentoring students, diversity and outreach.
    • Awarded two Belgian national fellowships and one international fellowship through the European Space Agency (ESA)
    • Supervised by Giacomo Bruno

Education

  1. PhD Physics

    Sapienza University of Rome and University of Florida
    Thesis on Using machine learning and the Hough transform to search for gravitational waves due to r-mode emission by isolated neutron stars. Supervised by Pia Astone and Prof. Bernard Whiting.
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  2. Masters Physics

    University of Florida
  3. BS Physics

    The College of New Jersey
Awards
“Chargé de recherches” postdoctoral fellowship
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Fund for Scientific Research) ∙ June 2022
3-year fellowship awarded by FNRS the National science funding agency in Belgium.
European Space Agency Archival Research Fellowship
European Space Agency ∙ January 2022
Awarded to support archival research of LISA Pathfinder data at European Space Astronomy Center (ESAC) in Madrid, Spain.
FSR postdoctoral fellowship
UCLouvain ∙ March 2021
awarded a fellowship from the Special Research Fund (FSR) to support research in any discipline
Institute of High Energy Physics Fellowship
University of Florida ∙ August 2019
Semester-long fellowship to pursue my PhD research at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research in Japan.
Graduate Research Fellowship
University of Florida ∙ April 2015
4-year fellowship to pursue research for my PhD in any discipline.
Languages
100%
English
75%
French
75%
Italian