I currently hold a post of Professor of Physics at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, and I am a tutorial fellow at Wadham College. Following a Laurea degree at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and a PhD at the Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy), I have held posts at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology in Durham (UK), at Fermilab in Batavia (Illinois, US) and at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland). In 2012 I have been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis. In 2013 I won a consolidator ERC grant. From January 2014 I started a staff position at CERN, and I am currently on a five year leave from Oxford.

A list of my publications can be found here.

Italian's TV program Superquark visits Oxford.

My main field of interest is the phenomenology of elementary particles, in particular the LHC and collider phenomenology. I have been working on fixed order perturbative (NLO) QCD calculations for multi-particle processes, on all orders resummations of logarithmic enhanced contributions, on the physics of jets and event shapes, on unstable particles using an effective theory description, on heavy flavour production, on Higgs and electroweak physics.

• Talk given at Future Circular Collider Kickoff Meeting in Geneve (February 2014) on QCD at FCC - opportunities and challenges
• Plenary talk given at 25th Rencontre de Blois in Blois (May 2013) on Higher order corrections - status and prospectives
• Hauptvortrag given at DPG-Frühjahrstagung in Goettingen (February 2012) on QCD: from benchmark processes to discovery channels
• Plenary talk given at the 8th Vienna Central European Seminar in Vienna (November 2011) on QCD and tools for the LHC
• Plenary talk given at Lepton Photon in Mumbai (August 2011) on Gauge Boson Production at Colliders - Predictions for Physics Studies
• Plenary talk given at EPS in Grenoble (July 2011) on Standard Model Theory for collider processes.
• Plenary talk given at Physics at LHC in Perugia (June 2011) on Hard QCD: theoretical aspects
• Plenary talk given at the Desy Theory Workshop in Hamburg (September 2009) on QCD NLO calculations
• Plenary talk given at the Pheno 2009 Symposium in Madison (May 2009) on Perturbative QCD and the LHC
• Plenary talk given at ICHEP in Philadelphia (August 2008) on Perturbative QCD Theory

Lectures on QCD and collider data given at the
- 1st Summer School of ITN: Unification in the LHC era (Corfu, Greece, Sept 2011)
- CERN – Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics (Natal, Brasil, April 2011),
- CERN Academic Training Lectures (CERN, Switzerland, April 2010),
- School on Particle Physics and Cosmology (Oran, Algeria, May 2009),
- CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider summer school (Fermilab, US, August 2008),
- and to graduate students in Oxford.