I am an INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) Research Fellow based in Turin.

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Research Interests

• Lattice Field Theories, especially Lattice QCD
• Low-energy Strong Interaction Dynamics
• Beyond Standard Model physics on the Lattice
• Non-perturbative aspects of Gauge Theories and Renormalization
• Computational Physics and Monte Carlo Algorithms
• Artificial Neural Networks and Statistical Learning

Research Activity

My research activity concerns the study of strongly interacting theories in the Standard Model (SM) and beyond (BSM). In particular I have been studying field theories regularised on a space-time lattice, the only known approach which allow for first-principle computations through numerical Monte Carlo techniques. During the beginning of my career I mainly focused on aspects of QCD relevant for the phenomenology of flavour physics and CP-violating processes within the SM and Beyond. Starting with my master thesis and during the PhD I mainly contributed in non-perturbative (high-precision) renormalization of fundamental parameters of the SM and renormalization of composite operators appearing in the effective weak Hamiltonian approach of processes relevant for improving constraints on CKM and new physics. The setup employed for the above calculations is the Schrödinger Functional (SF) renormalization scheme, which allows through a finite volume recursive procedure to compute the non-perturbative renormalization and running over several order of magnitude in energy and even address directly the calculation of the non-perturbative anomalous dimension. More specifically I worked on the renormalization of the tensor current (Nf = 0,2), the BSM 4-fermion operators (Nf = 2) and the quark masses (Nf = 3). All these projects are part of the ALPHA collaboration renormalization program. Currently I branched out my interests to several different aspects of gauge theories, focusing in particular on the numerical implementation and exploration of a UV complete partial composite Higgs scenario based on an SU(4) gauge group and fermions in multiple representation. Given the UV completeness of the model under investigation, it constitutes a perfect candidate to be studied on the lattice. Strictly related to this project, I am also contributing to the advancement of GRID: a new generation C++ library for lattice simulation mainly developed by the Edinburgh Lattice group. In parallel with the latter project I am active in the development of new algorithms inspired by the “multi-level” to improve the precision in spectroscopy of both fundamental and excited bound states on the lattice. I am also recently fascinated by the possibility of numerical simulations of quantum gravity on the lattice. While this problem is notoriously very intricate, a lattice exploration can be fundamental to establish non-perturbatively the existence of a possible “asymptotic-safety” scenario, without resort to any perturbative approximation.