User Portlet

I live in NorthEastern Italy in the countryside near to extinct volcanoes known as Euganian Hills, not much far from Venice.

I first became acquainted with Wolfram Mathematica when I was 13 years old in 1994 while browsing the ads pages of the Italian edition of “Scientific American” and started daydreaming about using it in my future academic studies. Actually, I started using it in 2002 for checking exercises to pass the examination course in “Mathematical Methods of Physics” at University of Padua, Italy.

In 2009, I got my PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the same institution, where I used Mathematica for electronic structure calculations about graphene-based materials. Since then, I started to contribute as hobbyst to Wolfram Demonstration Project and related resources by submitting whatever I found inspiring during my webquests throughout scientific papers and walking in nature, spanning from complex systems to condensed-matter physics and machine learning. I enjoy listening to electronic music, especially synth-pop and ambient music from the 80s and 90s, and spending summer holidays in Austrian and Italian Alps. I’m also very interested into Indoeuropean etimology and the family history of the House of Habsburg.