Work Experience

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Research Fellow: 04/2025 - Present
- Department of Chemistry
- Advisor: Prof. Andrew I Cooper
- Funded by the AI for Chemistry Hub (AIChemy)
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA): 03/2024 - 03/2025
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Advisor: Dr. Dongda Zhang
- Project: A Novel Bioprocess Control Strategy Under Uncertainty via Operational Space Identification
- Funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/Y005600/1]

Education

Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Lucca, Italy
- Ph.D. in Systems Science, 2024
- Thesis title: Global and preference-based optimization using surrogate-based method
- Advisor: Prof. Alberto Bemporad
- Member of Dynamical systems, control and optimization (DYSCO) research unit
- Erasmus+ traineeship: ChemE department, Imperial College London, 08/2023 - 01/2024
- Ph.D. scholarship - 4 years
Imperial College London, London, UK
- M.Sc. in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Process System Engineering, 2019
- Thesis title: A general dynamic model of a complete milk pasteuriser unit subject to fouling
- Advisor: Prof. Sandro Macchietto
- Graduated with Distinction, Best Performance in Research Project
University of Washington, Seattle, US
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Minor in Math, 2017
- Capstone project: Use retail food waste as a base for natural, sustainable and high-quality animal feeds
- Advisor: Prof. Lilo Pozzo
- Scholarship: Bernice Frank Scholarship in Chemical Engineering

Reviewer:
- Journals: Mathematical Programming (MAPR), Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems (THMS), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB), Scientific Reports
- Conferences: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 23’ 24’ 25’, American Control Conference (ACC) 22’ 23’ 24’, European Control Conference (ECC) 24’, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 24’ 25’
Chair & Co-chair for several sessions of the AI for NetZero Webinars