Education

• Ph.D.  in Astrophysics, SISSA-ISAS , Trieste, Italy (1998)
•  M.A.  in Physics, 110/110 cum laude , University of Milan (1994)

Employment

• Associate Professor, University of Southern California & visiting faculty at Caltech (2007 - present)
  
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern Californa & visiting faculty at Caltech (2006-2007)
  
• Senior Research Fellow, Caltech (2004 - 2006)
  
• Research Staff, Princeton University (2001-2004)
• CITA National Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1998-2001)
• Research Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK (1994)

• PI of the JPL-SURP proposal "Performance studies for future Cosmic Microwave Background space missions" (2007)
  
• PI of the NASA-ADP proposal "Temperature and polarization foregrounds and the cosmic microwave background" (2007)
• PI on the NASA-JPL subaward "Planck data analysis" (2006)
• PI of  the NSF-ADVANCE proposal  "Cosmology with  galaxy clusters" (2004)
• Co-I of  the NASA -LTSA proposal  "Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Backround data" (2002)

• NSF ADVANCE Fellow (2004)
• Planck Scientist
  
•  Fellowship from "A. della Riccia" Foundation  (2001)
• CITA National Fellowship (1998-2000)
• Ph.D. Fellowship from the International School of Advanced Studies (1994-1998)
• "EC: Human Capital and mobility" Fellowship (1994)
• ALDAI  excellence award for University students (1989-1992)