Teaching and mentoring
Alongside research, I have worked for many years on how universities teach: first as the Rector's Delegate for the development of innovative teaching methodologies at the University of Milan (2017-2018), now as Vice-Dean for Teaching of the Faculty of Physics in Vienna.
Current courses
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Scientific Image Processing
A course I created on getting quantitative, reproducible results out of scientific images. Co-taught with Maxime Lavaud.
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Principles of Soft Matter Physics
The physical principles behind colloids, polymers and other soft materials: thermal fluctuations, hydrodynamics and elasticity, with theory and experiments side by side. Co-taught with Christos Likos.
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Theoretical Physics IV - Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics for future secondary-school physics teachers, with my own lecture notes.
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Academic Skills and Ethics
Scientific writing and publishing, presenting, and research ethics and integrity.
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Kicking off your PhD / Mastering your PhD
Two courses I designed for doctoral candidates, at the start and in the later phase of their PhD.
Teaching innovation
At the University of Milan, as Rector's Delegate for the development of innovative teaching methodologies (2017-2018), I set up the university's Faculty Development programme for teaching staff. In the 4EU+ European university alliance I co-led Flagship 1 (2019-2020) and then led the work package on innovative education (2020-2021).
In Vienna I develop soft-skills courses for master's and doctoral students and work with colleagues on AI-based approaches to teaching and learning in physics, including an AI tutor piloted in physics lectures.
I am a co-author of Italian textbooks of physics for medicine and biomedical sciences.
European projects on teaching and learning
Mentoring
The people I supervise or host in the SoMeX lab in Vienna. This list is read from the SoMeX website and stays up to date on its own. Meet the team.
In total, since the lab's first recruitment in 2022, I have supervised or hosted:
- 6postdoctoral researchers
- 4PhD students
- 7master's students
- 1bachelor's student
- 9visiting students
- 5interns
Postdoctoral researchers
Current
Former
Master's students
Current
Former
Visiting students
Current
- Pui Wo Felix Yeung, PhD student
- Remi Pinchede, MSc student
Former
- Norma Palmero, PhD student
- Andrea De Marco, PhD student
- Concetta Santangelo, PhD student
- Vinay Kopnar, PhD student
- Samuel Meriadec, MSc student
- Alejandro Cobo, MSc student
- Carlo Marietti, MSc student
Senior colleagues who came to work with us are listed under Visiting scientists on the Research page.
Interns
Former
- Nora Kohlmayer, Summer intern
- Mari Liewehr, Summer intern
- David Steiner, MSc intern
- Oliver Stöckl, MSc intern
- Jonas Wagner, BSc intern
I also mentor fellows of the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics.