projects

research

Einstein Telescope

The next generation of ground-based GW detection.

Virgo

Working on the fourth observing run!

Rehear

A continuously-updating pipeline for GW analysis.

Fellowship of Clean Code

A group to discuss clean coding practices in!

LGWA

Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna

hobbies

Dungeons and Dragons

Call of Cthulhu

Learning to be a Keeper for Call of Cthulhu.

Working on

At the moment

This is a list of things I’m currently working on, within a timescale around a month.

1. Working to improve mlgw_bns
   1. including higher order modes
   2. aligning the timing of the waveforms and phasing of the modes
   3. including precession
   4. improving the evaluation time through an architecture change
2. Trying to improve the efficiency of nessai
3. Applying to postdocs
4. Training:
   1. trail running and cycling
   2. circus: handstands, acro yoga, acrobatics
   3. bodyweight calisthenics as a complement

Will get to

This is a list of tasks that I hope to get to in the future.

1. Improve the visualizations for EOB orbits with eob-visualizer: with blender, a “cloud of points” for the BH orbits corresponding to the posteriors.
2. Building a surrogate model for xkn (?)
3. applying time-domain relative binning to weird hyperbolic encounters
4. Working on a musical / dance outreach show about black holes
5. Finishing a D&D campaign based on Frozen Sick with Padova people (december 2025)
6. Working on the inclination angle posterior feature and paper for BAYESTAR
7. Cosmological coupling of Black Holes
8. Writing a simple article detailing the science case for multimessenger observations; specifically focusing on what we can get from a combined PE
9. DWD and NS-WD detectability studies with decihertz GW detectors
10. Making a systematic study of the effect of the inclusion of high-order parameters in (BNS) waveforms
11. Can we build a time-domain evidence integrand for GW inference?
    1. Is it somehow computable from to the SNR TD integrand with the waveform reconstruction?
    2. Can the methodology here be also applied to the hyperbolic analyses of GW190521?
12. Learning to play bass
13. Secret project with Filippo
14. Do an LVK-style “population fit” of my run lengths, since 1Msun is a bit more than a km

Already did

1. DMing a D&D campaign in the West Marches style with Lorenzo - the campaign is now finished, this website contains all the stories of what happened in it!
2. DMing Call of Cthulhu at GSSI (“Dockside Dogs”, start of November)
3. Reviewing a section of the LGWA whitepaper
4. Helping on a paper about Lunar gravitational wave detection
5. Getting the mlgw_bns paper published
6. Making a presentation on LGWA for the IFAE meeting
7. Getting access to the Virgo data at EGOs
8. Making a presentation for how GWFish works
9. Re-starting the Fellowship of Clean Code
10. Contributing to the Einstein Telescope Blue Book
11. Graduating at the Galilean school with a thesis about clean coding practices
12. Making visualizations for EOB orbits with eob-visualizer
13. Roughly learning how Stable Diffusion works
14. Making a presentation for the GSSI science fair about LGWA
15. Doing peer review
16. Running Call of Cthulhu at GSSI (so far, “The Haunting”)
17. Running a TTRPG session with grandma over the holidays
18. Races
    1. 14K trail race on the 8th of October
    2. Half-marathon on the 19th of November
    3. Rome Marathon on the 17th of March 2023
    4. Via degli Dei on the 13-14th of April