Biography Born in 1985, I have lived in Italy until 2011. I received BSc and MSc in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, then I moved to London to start PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2012. I am really into fluid dynamics (experimental or computational, anything!), especially passionate about automotive and aerospace aerodynamics. I love Formula 1, cars in general and trains, music, football, cooking, travelling and LEGO!
| 2004-2009 | BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Experimental investigation on a synthetic jet with Reynolds number of the order of 18000 Supervised by Prof. Maurizio Pandolfi and Dr. Gaetano M. Di Cicca |
| 2009-2011 | MSc in Aeronautical Engineering (Aerogasdynamics), Politecnico di Torino, Italy Statistics and visualization of homogeneous isotropic turbulence: on the effects of multidimensional spectral filtering Supervised by Prof. Daniela Tordella and Dr. Michele Iovieno |
| 2012-present | PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London, UK Pressure estimation from 4D data Supervised by Prof. Nicolas P. Smith, Dr. David A. Nordsletten and Dr. Pablo Lamata |
Scientific Research
My project is about estimating pressure in cardiovascular compartments non-invasively from PC-MRI. I have focused my research on improving the mapping of viscous pressure in the vasculature, through the solution of a Poisson equation on pressure, as we believe that friction stresses represent a potential biomarker for disease conditions. I am currently working on a Finite Difference formulation to reduce the impact on noise when computing pressure from the velocity vector fields from imaging data.