Date and place of birth: 16.08.1981, Tivoli (Italy).

2001 – 2005
     Studying Physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy).
     2005 (September 29th) “Laurea” (“Diplom”) in Physics.
     Title: "Investigation of the electronic properties of dilute nitrides by means of optical spectroscopy techniques".
     grade: 110/110 cum laude.

2005 – 2008
     PhD Student in Materials Science at the Physics Departement of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
     2008 (December 19th) PhD in Materials Science, Supervisors Prof. A. Polimeni and Prof. M. Capizzi.
     Title: "Hydrogen-assisted defect engineering in dilute nitride semiconductors"
     awarded as the best Italian PhD thesis in materials science (experimental), "Giuseppe Turilli" prize (2009).

2009
     Post-Doc at the Physics department of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy), in the group of Prof. A. Polimeni and Prof. M. Capizzi.

2010 - 2011
     Post-Doc at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences IIN, IFW-Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in the group of Prof. A. Rastelli and Prof. O.G.
     Schmidt.

2011 - 2012
     Head of the optics group (group leader) at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences IIN, IFW-Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

06/2012 - 11/2013
     University Assistant at the Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria.

11/2013 – 05/2017
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria

2015
Received the ERC Starting Grant (start date: 04/2016)

10/2016
Received the "Fritz Kohlrausch Prize" of ÖPG.

04/2017
Habilitation (venia docendi), at the JKU Linz: “Towards scalable sources of single and entangled photons based on quantum dots”

06/2017
Associate Professor at the Johannes Kepler University – Linz