Annual report

Annual report
XXXVII ciclo – first year



ARSINI LORENZO
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis director: Carlo Mancini Terracciano, Riccardo Faccini
Thesis title: Treatment plan optimisation for electron FLASH Radio Therapy with Deep Learning


BORDONI SIMONE
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis director: Stefano Giagu
Thesis title: Quantum machine learning on NISQ devices


CIANCI SALVATORE
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis director: Marco Felici
Thesis title: Quantum emitters from hydrogen-filled two-dimensional nanobubbles


CIRIGLIANO LORENZO
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis director: Claudio Castellano
Thesis title: Long-range processes on complex networks


COCCIAGLIA NICCOLO’
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis director: Angelo Vulpiani
Thesis title: Non-equilibrium properties of turbulence


D’ALO’ BEATRICE
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis director: Paolo Postorino
Thesis title: Lattice strain and distortion in transition metal dichalcogenides by optical spectroscopies


D’ARCO ANNALISA
Advisor: Federico Bordi
Thesis director: Stefano Lupi
Thesis title: Micro-optical applications of thz/ir spectroscopy for the detection of biomolecules



DEL CASTELLO GIORGIO
Advisor: Fabio Bellini
Thesis director: Marco Vignati
Thesis title: Measurement of the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering with NUCLEUS


DEL GROSSO LORIS
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis director: Paolo Pani
Thesis title: Fermion soliton stars


FIORE JACOPO
Advisor: Francesco Mauri
Thesis director: Lara Benfatto
Thesis title: Phase and amplitude resolved nonlinear THz spectroscopies in unconventional superconductors


GUIDARELLI MATTIOLI FRANCESCO
Advisor: Irene Rosana Giardina
Thesis director: John Russo
Thesis title: Multi-body potentials for e↵ective field representation from water to proteins


IOVINO ANTONIO JUNIOR
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis director: Alfredo Urbano
Thesis title: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates


JOULAEIAN FARNOOSH
Thesis director: Roberto Di Leonardo
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis title: Oxygen mediated algae-bacteria interaction controlled with light


LIGUORI FILIPPO
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis director: Roberto Di Leonardo
Thesis title: Periodicity in the gene expression of engineered bacteria can be regularized by light: between synchronization and drug delivery for cancer.


MAI EMANUELE
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis director: Tullio Scopigno
Thesis title: Multidimensional Impulsive Vibrational Spectroscopy


MARCHIANI DARIO
Advisor: Lara Benfatto
Thesis director: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis title: Tuning the electronic response of graphene via chemical functionalization


NILIANI FARHAD
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis director: Mauro Papinutto
Thesis title:



PALMISANO STEFANO
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis director: Roberto Contino
Thesis title: Probing Dark and Heavy Sectors with Precision Cosmological Observation


POGGIALINI ANNA
Advisor: Irene Rosana Giardina
Thesis director: Francesca Tria
Thesis title: RG on complex networks


RESCIGNO MARIA
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis director: Livia Bove
Thesis title: Proton dynamics under extreme conditions: looking for exotic states in water and hydrates


RIPANI FEDERICO
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis director: Roberto Bonciani
Thesis title: Numerical and analytical aspects of scattering amplitudes


RODARI GIOVANNI
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis director: Fabio Sciarrino
Thesis title: Hybrid photonic technologies for Quantum Information tasks


RUSSO GRAZIELLA
Advisor: Shahram Rahatlou
Thesis director: Stefano Giagu
Thesis title: Anomaly Detection techniques for New Physics searches in hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector and studies on RPCs timing calibration and Phase II trigger upgrade


SANTONI GIACOMO
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis director: Marco Bochicchio, Mauro Papinutto
Thesis title: Large-N QCD-like theories


SEGRETO SEBASTIANO
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis director: Giovanni Montani
Thesis title: Cut-off physics effects in the minisuperspace: extended heisenberg algebras


VALIGI PIETRO
Advisor: Vincenzo Marinari
Thesis director: Chiara Cammarota
Thesis title: Spectral features in sparse non-Hermitian random graphs and their application to ecological models


XXXVI ciclo – second year

Second year of the course, the Ph.D. students carried out their research activity for the preparation of their thesis, In October the PhD students sent the updates of their thesis project.
All the Ph.D. students held a seminar to present their thesis Director, Advisor and all the Ph.D students



OJUS SATISH BAGAL
Thesis director: Roberto Di leonardo
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis title:


BARCA GABRIELE
Thesis director: Alessandro Melchiorri, Giovanni Montani
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis title: Polymer Cosmology: Effects and Phenomenology of Cut-Off Physics on the Early Universe


BARSANTI SUSANNA
Thesis director: Leonardo Gualtieri
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis title: Testing General Relativity with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals


CALDARELLI GIOVANNI
Thesis director: Lara Benfatto
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis title: Thermal transport in complex crystals



CAMPANA MATTIA
Thesis director: Francesco Santanastasio, Paolo Meridiani
Advisor: Cesare Bini
Thesis title: Search for Leptoquarks in lepton-quark collisions at LHC


CANNIZZARO ENRICO
Thesis director: Paolo pani
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis title: Plasma Effects in Curved Spacetime


CHEN YUHAN
Thesis director: Riccardo mazzarello
Advisor: Francesco mauri
Thesis title: Computational Study of the Potential Energy Surface of Phase-change Materials


CORELLI FABRIZIO
Thesis director: Paolo Pani
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis title: Studio sulla stabilità dei buchi neri con massa minima in teoria Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet



DE MARZO GIORDANO
Thesis director: Vittorio Loreto
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis title: Neural Networks in Physics: theory and applications



DEGTEV ILIA
Thesis director: Josè Lorenzana
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis title: Properties of transition metal fluorides as quantum materials


DI CESARE CLAUDIA
Thesis director: Raffaella Schneider
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis title: "The gas and dust cycle in the first galaxies"


FALCONE RICCARDO
Thesis director: Claudio Conti
Advisor: Fabio Sciarrino
Thesis title: Quantum optics in non-inertial frames



MAIURO ALESSANDRA
Thesis director: Silvia Capuani, Stefano Giagu
Advisor: Federico Bordi
Thesis title: SVILUPPO DI PROTOCOLLI NMR PER LA DIAGNOSTICA MEDICA




MASSI ANDREA
Direttori di tesi Michele Ortolani, Paolo Mazzanti
Advisor:
Thesis title: Analisi e calibrazione di immagini satellitari iper-spettrali nell’infrarosso



MANICCIA GIULIA
Thesis director: Giovanni Montani
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis title: Quantum Gravity corrections to quantum field theory: Born-Oppenheimer approach to the canonical formalism


MIRARCHI GIOVANNI
Thesis director: Sergio Caprara
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis title: “The strange metal behavior of cuprates”



MORODEI FEDERICO
Thesis director: Massimo Corradi
Advisor: Shaharam Rahatlou
Thesis title: Measurement of the Drell-Yan differential cross section with semileptonic di-tau final state


PADOVANO GIOVANNI
Thesis director: Stefano Giagu, Matteo Bauce
Advisor: Aleandro Nisati
Thesis title: Standard Model precision physics with tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment at
the LHC


POLACCHI BEATRICE
Thesis director: Fabio Sciarrino
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis title: Quantum computation and simulation on a hybrid photonic platform


POMPA PACCHI ELENA
Thesis director: Stefano Giagu, Valerio Ippolito
Advisor: Cesare Bini
Thesis title: Dark sector searches in final states with long-lived or prompt neutral particles with the
ATLAS detector and upgrade of the L0 muon trigger for HL-LHC



RESSA ALBERTO
Thesis director: Fabio Bellini, Laura Cardani
Advisor: Shahram Rahathou
Thesis title: Search for new physics with cryogenic calorimeters


RIVAS BARBOSA RODRIGO
Thesis director: Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Advisor: Federico Bordi
Thesis title: Modeling superselectivity and behavior of soft, functionalized colloidal systems


SANTI LORENZO
Thesis director: Marumi Kado
Advisor: Shahram Rahatlou
Thesis title: VH(bb¯ | cc¯) analisi legacy in ATLAS



SCANDOLO MATTIA
Thesis director: Andrea cavagna
Advisor: Lara Benfatto
Thesis title: Renormalization group approach to biological systems


SICILIANO ANTONIO
Thesis director: Francesco Mauri
Advisor: Giancarlo Ruocco
Thesis title: Describing quantum phase transition with rotational degrees of freedom


SOTGIU SIMONE
Thesis director: Leonetta Baldassarre
Advisor: Francesco Mauri
Thesis title: INFRARED AND OPTICAL STUDY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED MATERIALS


STRACCAMORE MATTEO
Thesis director: Vittorio Loreto, Luciano Pietronero
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis title: Analysis of the city-technology bipartite network. How technology innovation drives the growth of cities.



TONETTO LUCAS
Thesis director: Omar Benhar Noccioli
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis title: Thermal Effects in Nuclear Matter and Implications for Neutron Stars Properties


TONI CLAUDIO
Thesis director: Marco Nardecchia
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis title: Aspects of light dark sectors: IR/UV connection



TORDA TOMMASO
Thesis director: Stefano Giagu
Advisor: Cesare Bini
Thesis title: Interpretability and expainability IA in advanced Neural Networks for Topological Quantum Field Theory, Neuroscience and Medical Apprilcation


VECA MARIO
Thesis director: Irene Giardina
Advisor: Francesco Zamponi
Thesis title: Non Equilibrium effects in the Flucctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Active Matter Systems


VENTURA ENRICO
Thesis director: Giancarlo Ruocco, Francesco Zamponi
Advisor: Vincenzo Marinari
Thesis title: Demolition and Reinforcement of Memories in Spin-Glass models of Neural Networks


Villani Stefano Paolo
Thesis director: Francesco Mauri
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis title: Phase diagram and response properties of linear conjugated polymers


ZIA DANILO
Thesis director: Fabio Sciarrino
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis title: Machine Learning-based approaches for Quantum Communication, Cryptography and
Computation with Twisted Photons



XXXV ciclo – Third year






I Session – FInal exam within 30 January 2023

Committee Condensed Matter Physics and soft matter

BLUNDO ELENA
Thesis director: Antonio Polimeni
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis sent to evaluators: Controlling the opto-electronic properties of layered materials under external perturbations

TOMARCHIO LUCA
Thesis director: Stefano Lupi
Advisor: Federico Bordi
Thesis sent to evaluators: Terahertz and Optical Response of Novel Quantum Materials

Committee Quantum Information and condensed matter


LANEVE ALESSANDRO
Thesis director: Paolo Mataloni
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis sent to evaluators: Diverse Applications of the Quantum Walk model in Quantum Information: a theoretical and experimental analysis in the optical framework


NEUWIRTH JULIA
Thesis director: Rinaldo Trotta
Advisor: Fabio Sciarrino
Thesis sent to evaluators

Committee Physics of Complex systems

ALBORA GIAMBATTISTA
Thesis director: Luciano Pietronero
Advisor: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis sent to evaluators: Applicazioni dei metodi di Economic Fitness and Complexity alle aziende


CHIAPPETTA CLAUDIO
Direttori di tesi: Vittorio Loreto, Massimiliano Moscatelli
Referenti del collegio: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Thesis sent to evaluators: Towards a data-driven approach for the understanding and policing of urban dynamics




II Sessione – Final exam within 30 may 2023

BENEDETTI MARCO
Thesis director: Vincenzo Marinari
Advisor: Irene Giardina
Thesis sent to evaluators: Artificial Neural Network to perform associative memory over ultrametrically correlated patterns

GABRIELE FRANCESCO
Thesis director: Lara Benfatto
Advisor: Maria Grazia Betti
Thesis sent to evaluators: Non-linear photonic of plasma waves in superconductors

GIOVANNETTI ELEONORA
Thesis director:Giovanni Montani
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis sent to evaluators: The quantum nature of the Big Bounce


HOCH FRANCESCO
Thesis director: Fabio Sciarrino
Advisor: Claudio Conti
Thesis sent to evaluators: Integrated photonics for quantum computation

NICOLETTI FLAVIO
Thesis director: Federico Ricci Tersenghi
Advisor: Vincenzo Marinari
Thesis sent to evaluators: Revisiting the O(m) spin glasses at low temperature

NIEDDA JACOPO
Thesis director: Luca Leuzzi, Giacomo Gradenigo
Advisor: Vincenzo Marinari
Thesis sent to evaluators: Analysis of the mode-locked p-spin model

PIERINI LORENZO
Direttori di tesi: Paola Leaci, Cristiano Palomba
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis sent to evaluators: Boosting the sensitivity of continuous gravitational waves all-sky searches using a novel filtering technique


PIERINI LORENZO
Direttori di tesi: Paola Leaci, Cristiano Palomba
Advisor: Leonardo Gualtieri
Thesis sent to evaluators: Boosting the sensitivity of continuous gravitational waves all-sky searches using a novel filtering technique

SABATUCCI ANDREA
Thesis director: Omar Benhar
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis sent to evaluators: Modelling Nuclear Dynamics in the Age of Multimessenger Astrophysics

TRAMONTANO RAFFAELLA
Thesis director: Shahram Rahatlou, Francesco Pandolfi
Advisor: Cesare Bini
Thesis sent to evaluators: Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider


VAGLIO MASSIMO
Thesis director: Andrea Maselli
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis sent to evaluators: Modelling and phenomenology of boson stars as gravitational sources for future ground- and space-based interferometers


III Sessione – Final exam within 30 september 2023

CARNESALE MARIA
Thesis director: Cesare Bini
Advisor: Shahram Rahatlou
Thesis title da inviare ai valutatori: Precision studies of the decay properties of the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS experiment at LHC


LINGETTI GIUSEPPE
Thesis director: Paolo Pani
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis title da inviare ai valutatori: Black-hole superradiance instability for massive spin-2 _elds


LONG ELISABETH
Thesis director: Mauro Raggi
Advisor: Cesare Bini
Thesis title da inviare ai valutatori: Dark Matter Searches in Multi-lepton Events at the PADME Experiment


MARCHESE GUGLIELMO
Thesis director: Paolo Barone
Advisor: Lara Benfatto
Thesis title da inviare ai valutatori: Ab-Initio procedure for Phonons effectson ir and raman spectroscopy in metals


SILVETTI FEDERICO
Thesis director: Marco Bonvini
Advisor: Antonio Davide Polosa
Thesis title da inviare ai valutatori: Advancements in high-energy resummation and in its phenomenology at hadron colliders

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