About me:

My background is in Mathematics with focus on some geometrical and computational aspects. My interests lie within all sorts of numerical methods and discretization techniques for Scientific Computing. In my undergraduate and Master's studies at the University of Siena, Italy, I was fascinated by Computational Geometry and Computer-Aided Geometric Design techniques with applications in Animation and Computer Graphics. Subsequently, I obtained my PhD in Applied Mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in May 2018 with a dissertation in Computational Fluid Dynamics, in which I conducted numerical simulations of the dynamics of viscoelastic fluids. I am currently a PostDoctoral Research Associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, under the supervision of Jed Brown developing an efficient, extensible, portable mathematical library (libCEED), within the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP): a collaborative effort of the Office of Science (OOS) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the Department of Energy (DOE).

Research projects at a glance:

Master's Thesis:
Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

Implementation of the original subdivision surfaces algorithm by Catmull-Clark for closed surfaces.
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Expansion of the original algorithm to include open surfaces.
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PhD's Dissertation:
Numerical Simulations of Thin Viscoelastic Films

Direct numerical simulations of thin viscoelastic films on a flat solid substrate.
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Direct numerical simulations of spreading/receding viscoelastic drops on a flat solid substrate.
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Direct numerical simulations of thin viscoelastic films on an inverted solid substrate under the effect of gravity and substrate interactions.
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Direct numerical simulations of dewetting non-Newtonian viscoelastic films on an inverted plane, in the absence/presence of slippage with the substrate.
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Direct numerical simulations of free-boundary flows of sheared viscoelastic membranes.
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Direct numerical simulations of free-boundary flows of stretched viscoelastic membranes.
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Pixar Animation Studios Internship Project:
Numerical Simulations of Viscous Liquids on Surfaces

Implementation of a Navier-Stokes solver and a thin film solver for viscous liquids on arbitrary surfaces.
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My Erdős number is 5 (source MathSciNet).