I'm a Postdoctoral researcher at CETEMPS, in the
University of L'Aquila.
I'm interested in weather and snow cover modelling, and snowpack stability for avalanche forecasting.
I was born in L'Aquila, a small city in central Italy. I studied Physics at the
Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of
the University of L'Aquila and
Atmospheric and Cryosferic Sciences at the ACINN of the
University of Innsbruck conducting my Master Thesis at the
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) of
Davos, and I got a PhD at the department of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
at the University of Roma Sapienza. I've been loving mountains since I was a child, especially the Apennines. Snow landscapes always fascinated me and aroused the interest to
understand the processes that regulate snowfall, snow settlement and avalanches triggering. In central Italy extreme snowfall
are becoming much more frequent during the recent years due to the climate change, and much more people are approaching
skitouring and freeride. Nevertheless snow microphysics and avalanches forecasting studies are completely neglected in
this region. I hope to bring attention to these topics and contribute with my research.
I'm currently collaborating with MeteoAQuilano, a team that monitors the climate
of L'Aquila and the surroundings with a huge number of weather stations and makes daily weather forecasts for these
territories with professionalism and passion.
