​I grew up in Italy, in a town called Roseto degli Abruzzi, on the Adriatic See. 

I got a Doctoral Degree in Mathematics at the University of L'Aquila, not far from home. 

I moved to the United States for my postdoctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta in 2014. I started my job at Emory University in Fall 2016, and I never left since.

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At Emory, I have the opportunity to teach 200 and 300-level courses and revise them, as well as design an online version of one of these courses, build rapport with students, explore multidisciplinary approaches to students’ engagement, mentor undergraduate research, advise students for their academic careers, and mentor novel instructors.

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The focus of my disciplinary research includes numerical analysis, global optimization, differential equations, and numerical linear algebra. 

I am curious about problems that have both theoretical and numerical/applied challenges and require to design new techniques that need analysis and validation.

 

On the other hand, being a teaching professor at Emory has brought to my attention some of the issues students have in learning mathematics at the college level. Since the Spring Semester 2019, I am working with Emory dance professor Lori Teague on a research project that entails the use of movement to actively learn mathematics, to fascinate people that are not into the sciences, and to foster a sense of community in the attempt to unify the sciences and the arts.