About me
- I'm a physics student: I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics at the Universià degli Studi di Milano (unimi), and I'm currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Particle and Astroparticle Physics at the Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (univaq). For my Bachelor's thesis, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Raoul Röntsch on theoretical perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics: in particular, I extended the Nested Soft-Collinear subtraction scheme at next-to-leading order to include a general number of massive partonic flavours, with the main ojective of allowing precision studies of heavy-quark processes at hadron colliders (e.g. top-quark studies at the LHC) within this subtraction scheme. The thesis is available here or through GitHub in notes.
- I self-study pure mathematics, mainly in view of its applications to theoretical physics: in particular, I focus on topology, group theory and differential geometry, although I'd like to delve into category theory (and its modern applications to topological quantum field theories).
- I'm a hobbyist Linux sys-admin: I've been a Linux user for 5 years now and I'm currently running NixOS as the primary operating system both on my desktop and laptop computers; on the latter, I triple-boot an Ubuntu partition, primarily for Mathematica, and an Arch Linux partition, to experiment with software and ricing. I set up a small home network to monitor my devices through Grafana dashboards and to avoid massive online surveillance with pihole, and I'm planning to build a home server. I'm also a programmer: I mainly code in C++, of which I received an academic education focused to its applications to physics research and data analysis, and Python, which I independently learned during liceo (high-school). I also have some experience with Java, primarily for hobbyist Android app development, and HTML/CSS, for simple websites, and a limited experience with Lua and Nix for Nvim and NixOS configs.