Alumni
Olivia Lanzoni2018-2019
She graduated in Biology with maximum scores in 2014 at Pisa University, where she obtained the International PhD in Biology with honors in 2018. She was involved in two different European projects aimed to transfer know-how between universities, where she carried out her research on microbial ecology and evolution. She is author of 7 scientific publications and was speaker at many international scientific congresses. She has also teaching experience as assistant, and Adjunct Professor for several zoological and molecular courses. Now she is Research Fellow at the Department of Biology of Pisa, and she deals with the study of microbial communities using innovative NGS techniques. Her interest in bioinformatics has been the trigger to enroll the Master for acquire new informatic instruments to analyze Big Data. |
Enrica Latella2015-2016
I grew up in La Spezia (Liguria) where I was born in 1987. After obtaining my high school diploma, specializing in the classics, and achieving a three-year bachelor’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan, I enrolled in a Master’s degree in Statistics for Economics. This choice gave me the opportunity to deepen my studies in quantitative subjects, which are the basic tools for understanding socio-economics. In March 2014, I graduated with a thesis entitled ‘Crisis: Economic Resilience and New Political Strategies in Italy.’ Upon graduation, after a brief work experience in DELOITTE, in which I was involved in a Business Intelligence project for SKY Italy, I had the opportunity of working as a member of staff in the Mayor’s office in Monterosso al Mare. During this experience, I was also directly involved with communication tasks and cultural initiatives. Enrolling in this second level master’s degree in ‘Big Data Analytics and Social Mining’ I would like to get closer to the field of my studies in order to expand my skills and explore new career possibilities in the Data Analysis Sector. |
Nicola Leonardi2019-2020
After the Master degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Pisa) in 2006 and several years of R&D activity in telecommunications and IoT, I continue my academic training obtaining in 2018 the master's degree with honors in Humanities Informatics (Pisa) with focus on Human Computer Interaction with thesis on the interaction of a humanoid robot in the IoT environment (ACM CHI2019). With many years of experience as a software engineer, I currently cover the role of Technical Product Manager for the Seastema company (Fincantieri group) specializing in the design and supply of integrated naval automation systems in the military, merchant, yacht and infrastructure monitoring fields. Working mainly for national and international R&D projects related to Defense, I enrolled in the master to broaden my training background regarding Data Mining and BigData, topics that take on an increasingly central role in this working environment.
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Isabella Maria Lepore2017-2018
I majored in philosophy and I'm a PhD student at the University of Roma Tre and Roma Tor Vergata. I'm currently working on Isaac Newton's metaphysics and theological unpublished manuscripts. I approached the world of big data and data mining to satisfy my curiosity and to learn new things. |
Giulio Leuci2017-2018
I was born in Grosseto in 1992. I got my B.Sc. in Physics and Advanced Technology at the University of Siena and my M.Sc. in Physics at the University of Pisa, where I attended some Medical Physics courses. Driven by curiosity about Data Science application in medicine, I decided to attend this Master because I would like to learn other application fields to broaden my work horizons. |
Daniele Licari2017-2018
After the Computer Science MS Degree, he hold a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy) in 2014. His doctoral thesis has been focused on the designing and building of an cyberinfrastructure to analyze quantum-chemical results, increase researchers’ productivity, and improve the sharing and enrichment of heterogeneous data, in order to encourage research scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary activities with a focus on Molecular Science and Virtual Heritage fields. He worked as a PostDoc at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2014-2017), his research involved the development of a user-friendly environment for fully exploiting state-of-the-art computational packages for simulating molecular spectra in a wide range of frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, by converting raw data into easily interpretable spectra and providing a complete set of functionalities to collect and analyze them. I am currently a PostDoc at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. |
Tommaso Lo Sterzo2019-2020
I graduated in philosophy in November 2018 at the University of Roma Tre with a thesis on the role of probability in the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. My interests in philosophy have always been at the limits of the physical and mathematical sciences. In particular, I have been interested in probability theory, interpretation of physical theories, logic and philosophy of logic. After these years of studying philosophy, I decided to deepen the quantitative aspect of my interests. In particular, I have tried to build a good base of analysis and geometry and I have further deepened some aspects of mathematical logic. During this period I discovered the world of Big Data and Machine Learning and so I decided to enroll in the master offered by the University of Pisa, where I am learning its methods. The construction of predictive models and the use of other techniques learned are now my passion. My desire is to work in a company in the sector to deal with Data Science full time. |
Stefano Lonati2015-2016
Stefano nasce a Milano nel 1986 e, da sempre alla ricerca di uno strumento per comprendere meglio la realtà che lo circonda, è convinto di aver trovato un potente alleato nell'analisi dei dati, che ha scoperto durante gli studi di laurea magistrale in Economia, Politica ed Istituzioni Internazionali. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea con il massimo dei voti grazie ad una tesi sperimentale sull'uso dei metodi di data mining applicati ai contesti didattici, Stefano lavora un anno in un progetto di cooperazione internazionale a Livingstone (Zambia), dove scopre con piacere che ciò che ha studiato sui libri gli è di grande aiuto per orientarsi e per comprendere una società così distante dalla sua.
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Marzia Longo2020-2021
I'm 26 years old and I graduated in Biology. I did a research thesis in Bioinformatics, in collaboration with the National Istitute of Health, on Malaria. The goal was to find the interactome between Plasmodium and murine erythrocyte: the results were presented at the International Conference of Computational Systems Biology and Bionformatics (December 2019). Through this work, I learned how difficult but interesting it is to analyze data and extrapolate information. For this reason, I would like to engage in Data science and this master offers me the opportunity. |
Marco Lorenzetti2015-2016
In 2014 Marco obtained his Master’s degree in Political Sciences and Decisional Processes at the University of Florence with a thesis regarding a quantitative analysis about the eco-efficiency of the italian Regions. Since the time of university’s period he started doing some experiences in the journalism field, dedicating himself to the local chronicle, where he also started working as publisher dealing with the optimization web issues and social media management. His main interests include: local development policies and digital strategies. |
Martina Lorenzino2016-2017
Martina was born in Pietrasanta(LU) in the 1985. She graduated in Experimental Psychology at the University of Florence. Her master thesis concerned the study of face recognition cognitive processes. In the 2015, she got a PhD degree in Pyshcology and Neuroscience at the Department of NEUROFORBA of the University of Florence, where today she collaborates in the Cognitive Processes Lab. During her PhD, she spent a period at the Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA), where she studied 3D perception. Her main interests concern the study of the influence of emotions on cognitive processes, particularly how emotions influence the learning of new information. She has a great interest in data analysis and psychometry and for this reason she decided to attend the Master in Big Data. She believes that Big Data are an important instrument to understand the human behavior. |
Giulia Lucherini2018-2019
After Liceo Classico, she enrolled in Economics and at the age of 24 she began her career in consulting offices getting Certification as Public Accountant (Commercialista). She spent a period in tax consultancy and financial analysis at leading offices in Milan, but over time she became interested in turnaround management and banking litigation. Thanks to her experience she understands the importance of a compliant management (/use) and statistical analysis of data, above all with strategic purpose. She chose to attend the Master to give added value to her proficencies, intending to learn advanced tools for data analysis and management. |
Giulia Luongo2021-2022
My name is Giulia Luongo, I graduated in 2014 in Management Engineering. Until December 2021 I worked in a Bergamo company in the automotive sector. Part of my job was to do data analysis and over the years I realized that this was the part that I was most passionate about. Thanks to the Master SoBigData I was able to specialize in this area. |
Michele Lupo2014-2015
Born in Rome on 27/09/1986. He holds a master's degree in philosophy with full marks in 2014. He started working as a journalist in 2010, coming to write for various newspapers and hold the role of managing editor. From January 2013 has joined the Italian Order of Journalists. He attended two training courses on linked open data and the semantic web, which gave him the opportunity to learn the representation with the description logic of a domain of knowledge in the form of ontology with language rdf / owl. The passion for informatics and interest in the tools of statistical analysis, fundamental to the social and scientific disciplines, led him to choose this master. |
Lorenzo Maggioletti2020-2021
I earned both my Bachelor and my Master in Philosophy at the University of Salerno. During my studies, my main area of interest has been comtemporary philosophy with a focus on the phenomenological movement, a tradition that has inspired me to always seek an interdisciplinary approach. In this spirit I chose to attend this Master, convinced not only by the importance of acquiring skills in the fields of management and analysis of data, but also by the philosophical relevance of many of the questions data science gives rise to. The lectures and the seminars held within the Master have strengthened my conviction showing the richness of the spectrum of disciplines and themes involved in working with data. |
Marco Magnolo2017-2018
Born on Aug 17th 1985 in Lecce (Le), I live in Pesaro (PU). I obtained the high school diploma in 2004 and I attended the Italian Army Military Academy in Modena and Torino from 2004 to 2009, where I graduated in "Scienze Strategiche". In 2009 I have been assigned to the Italian Army 28° "Pavia" Regiment stationed in Pesaro (PU). |
Vittorio Malaguti2015-2016
Vittorio Malaguti is interested in studying anthropology and cultures. He graduated at the University of Pavia in 2015 in philosophy, with a thesis on cultural memory and the correlated political view; he likes to study the shapes of cities, Kant, medieval history. He refuses to choose between humanist studies and scientific knowledge, so he sat at the edge, finding in computer science both an interesting new branch of knowledge, surprisingly so akin with philosophy, and a powerful tool to understand our lives. He is amazed by pythons. |
Ludovico Mannheimer2014-2015
Born in Milan on 20/01/1983, living in Milan. After a master degree in Social Sciences at the University of Milan he has his first experience in the world of data with working as junior researcher at Ipsos-MORI, in London. Once back in Italy, he started working at ISPO Ricerche as quantitative researcher, following opinion research projects in different areas, from culture to finance, becoming, in 2011, Head of the digital division, ISPO Click. Today, he is focused primarily on online research, taking care of all process: from the design and definition of the objectives to the data analysis and report production. He decided to attend the Master in Big Data Analysis and Data Mining because he believes the future of data analysis is the merging of traditional opinion polls with big data analysis, and will be increasingly necessary to master them both. |
Ada Maragno2019-2020
Born in Padua in 1993, I moved to Bologna and graduated in Anthropology, Religions and Eastern Culture. I then moved to Rotterdam to attend the master in Arts, Culture and Society, where I studied social theories and research methods, with a focus on different ways of experiencing culture and the arts, and writing a thesis on Rotterdam Museums' visitors. Later, I moved to London where I worked for a well known research market agency, participating in international projects in several areas, both offline and online. My experience in London determined my decision to focus on the digital world and especially on Big Data, which are more and more critical in our society. I enrolled in the Big Data Analytics Master to acquire technical skills together with a broader knowledge on how to extract information from data and how to use it in a strategic and informed manner. |
Gwydyon Marchelli2021-2022
I got a Bachelor degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies and a Master degree in Chemistry at the University of Turin. In the last years I have been a researcher in the field of computational chemistry under the Horizon2020 project SOCRATES at the University of Bonn, Germany, where I got my PhD in Chemistry. During my work, I encountered the challenge to organize and describe large amount of data, and took quite some interest in it; since the focus of my studies had never been on this topic, I decided to enroll in this Master to complete my training on Big Data and Data Mining. In my spare time I like cooking, playing board and role-play games, and climbing. |
Valentina Marchi2016-2017
Valentina graduated cum laude in Design of Sustainable Tourism System at the University of Florence. She is very interested and fascinated by the world of the web and social networks and their relationship with tourism issues. Valentina has developed her thesis entitled "Web 2.0 and development of the Tuscany brand " that analyses the binomial focusing on competitiveness, sustainability, innovation and tourism. She currently is researcher in the field of tourism, at the Institute of Biometeorology at the National Council in Florence. Valentina embarked on the path of the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to deepen the knowledge and try to understand the several facets of a complex phenomenon as tourism. |
Silvia Marrone2014-2015
Silvia Marrone has a degree in Physics from University of Bari and is an expert in Business Analytics and database. She currently works in Oracle Italia as Senior Sales Consultant (pre-sales consultant) in the Business Analytics business unit and has to support Account Managers in qualifying customer business needs. Previously she was a Senior Consultant in the Advanced Customer Service business unit working at the leading market Telco and Media companies and she also was a Trainer at University business unit delivering courses on Oracle products. Earlier she worked at the universities of Bari, Rome and Trieste in experimental research. |
Antonio Martella2015-2016
I am a PhD student in Political Science at University of Pisa. My research project focuses on identifying new opinion leaders in social media by means of Social Network Analysis. As a hybrid figure halfway between a computer scientist and a political scientist, I’ve often tried to combine computer and social science. Indeed, my degree thesis deals with the frame evolution of a political issue among media (Twitter, television and newspapers) that I analysed quantitatively with R software. As a member of the MediaLab of the Department of Political Science, I analysed a local electoral campaign in social media in collaboration with il Tirreno (local newspaper) and the National Research Council of Pisa (#Toscana15 project). I have focused on Social Network Analysis since I discovered that nodes and edges in a graph could represent human relationships. |
Marzia Martinelli2016-2017
Graduated with honours in Multimedia Production at the University of Bologna, my final dissertation "Let the Web serve humanity: perspectives of a webified city" focuses on the possibility to create an exsperimental project based on a new typology of smart city, built on the Web of Things, an evolution of the well known IoT. This academic path gave me the opportuinity to work within an evolving scenario - the one of new technologies - with an olistic approach and a multi-purpose thinking. All this allowed me to obtain an interdisciplinary education. I also did an interesting internship as digital designer in a web agency in Sarzana and I currently work as a photographer for private and public customers in Italy and abroad. My passion for the Web and its practical development eventually led me to participate in this master degree on Big Data Analytics. |
Tina Martino2018-2019
Tina Martino is currently covering the role of Head of Value Proposition in Octo Telematics, a leading company in insurance telematics and smart mobility services. After graduating in Information Sciences, he worked at Telecom Italia as Telco networks designer and vertical product marketing specialist. After she specialized in infomobility solutions, holding various technical and commercial roles mainly in Viasat, an Italian company, and then in Siemens where she managed “end to end” Internet of things projects in different application contexts (home, industrial automation, connected cars). Her special focus on continuous innovation and the search for new perspectives to look at everyday life have characterized her professional path. |
Sebastiano Martorana2019-2020
I was born in Verona in 1991. After graduating in philosophy at the University of Padova, I decided to move to Utrecht (in the Netherlands) to enroll in a master’s degree in Applied Ethics. During my studies in digital ethics, I had the opportunity to discover the world of Big Data. Despite not having any technical knowledge, I was attracted by the multiple perspectives offered by this innovative field. For this reason, once I came back to Italy, I decided to enroll in the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining at the University of Pisa. |
Osvaldo Marullo2016-2017
Born in 1963, I graduated in computer science at university of Pisa in 1989. Currently I am a teacher of computer science in a programmers course at a businness institute in Cagliari. Always passionate and attracted by information technology and the sciences in general, I worked as IT consultant too, gaining expertise in software development, in data bases management and systems management, collaborating with private companies, with the University of Cagliari and the Research and Development Center for Advanced Studies in Sardinia (CRS4). I participate in the master to acquire new skills in both computer science, and in the data science field, in order to to make new work experiences. |
Masotti2014-2015
Matteo Masotti is a data scientist at Enel Generation S.p.A., where he heads the Big Data & Hydro Diagnostic programs to improve power plants operations and maintenance performances. Prior to joining Enel Generation, he worked as data scientist within the Engineering and Research Division at Enel S.p.A.. He also previously served as project engineer at RSE (Ricerca sul Sistema Elettrico), a research centre that focuses on fossil and renewable power generation and forecast. Matteo holds an MSc in Physics and a Master of Meteorology. During his work experience, he focused on weather forecast computational modeling, data mining for customer segmentation, and predictive maintenance analytics. |
Simone Mattera2017-2018
Born and raised in Siena. I completed my Master’s degree cum laude in Computer and Automation Engineering from the University of Siena in 2016, combined with one year at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (NL) studying Artificial Intelligence as an Erasmus postgraduate. After defending my thesis, a research done at IMPA - Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro (BR) titled “Evolutionary game models for brain connectivity”, I started working in Turin as a software developer for industrial robots. Here my interest in the data analysis got started, as I furthermore joined a project regarding predictive maintenance for industrial machinery. I eventually applied to the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to broaden my knowledge of the Data Science, seeking to get an across the board picture of its large variety of purposes. |
Mario Massimo Mazzarella2014-2015
Mario Massimo Mazzarella, born in Rome on 29.09.1982. Master's degree in mathematics at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis in data's sequence analysis “Similarity between texts with Burrows-Wheeler Transform”, and Erasmus at Royal Holloway University of London. Agesci chief scout from 2003 to 2007. Language: English, PET Certification. Programming language: C, C++, Python, SPARK, JavaScript, Matlab. |
Raffaele Mazziotti2018-2019
I graduated in Experimental Psychology at the University of Florence and obtained my PhD in Basic Neuroscience at the University of Pisa. During my PhD I studied cortical plasticity and visual system development, using electrophysiology and functional imaging. Currently I hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Neuroscience, CNR (Pisa) and I am working on rare diseases of the nervous system using animal models. Throughout my stydies I became passionate in developing new hardware and software tools for functional microscopy, data analysis and machine learning. For this reason I decided to enroll this master and acquire the specific skills to extend and improve my knowledge in the fields of computer and data science. |
Stefano Mazzuca2016-2017
I am a young biomedical engineer, I founded a start-up called IMADROM which provides preclinical and clinical drugs development services, and where my actual position is software division manager. Once I completed my master’s degree at University of Pisa, my strong interest toward technological innovation led me to achieve a PhD Neuroscience. During my academic studies, I had the chance to do an internship for 1 year at Maastricht University, where I developed a groundbreaking biomolecular imaging technique, being able to perform in-depth analysis for cerebral metabolic maps via MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy). In my professional activity, I have been working closely with hospitals and research centers, finding myself dealing with HTA themes (Health Technology Assessment). From this experience, I understood that being able to handle efficiently a high amount of heterogeneous and sensitive data is indeed crucial to support the decision process in this field. |
Miki Mema2020-2021
I graduated in Economics in 2018. My thesis focused on investigating the effects of social relationships between individuals in the economic system. Following my graduation, I had several work experiences in the private sector, that made me realize the importance of data for business. I enrolled the Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining to learn the methods for data analysis in order to work as a Data Scientist in the future. |
Elisa Mercanti2020-2021
I am 25 and I come from a small town near Turin. After earning a bachelor's degree in Psychology, with a thesis in psychometrics on a data analysis technique, I specialized in Criminal and Forensic Psychology at the University of Turin. I have always been fascinated by data analysis and research methodologies in the psychosocial field and, after a brief collaboration with a private research foundation, I decided to deepen my knowledge in data management and analysis. I then applied for the master in Big Data Analytics to obtain some technical skills to study human phenomena from a quantitative point of view so to try to understand the complexity of the world around us. |
Albertine Meroni2017-2018
Albertine Meroni was born in Varese in 1990, she graduated in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis in the field of modeling for the dispersion of pollutants into the atmosphere. Moved by the desire to expand her skills she decides to undertake the master in Big Data at University of Pisa. |
Giuseppe Minardi2020-2021
After a Bachelor in Biomolecular Sciences and Technologies in Trento and after working in Novartis on a Data Analysis project, I decided to combine my biological background with my passion for computer science by enrolling in the Master in Quantitative and Computational Biology. Here, studying subjects such as Biostatistics and Machine Learning, I discovered a passion for data analysis, data visualization, and predictive model building. After taking part in several Data Science projects related to Biology, one of which is my Master thesis focused on applying novel feature selection methods for the discovery of new antimicrobial targets, I enrolled in the Master in Big Data & Social Analytics to strengthen and expand my knowledge in the world of Big Data and start my career in the field of Data Science. |
Amelia Morricone2015-2016
Amelia graduated with honors in Economics at Roma Tre University and obtained a master degree in Innovation Management and Service Engineering from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. She has been working as an analyst within a client-focused business so far and she has decided to better off her quantitative and computing skills to support with confidence data-driven companies. Amelia takes great satisfaction from providing context to brillant ideas, sharing knowledge and using learning to improve. |
Valentina Mulas2015-2016
I was born in 1987 in Muravera (Ca), and I graduated in Cagliari and I graduated in “Psicologia dello sviluppo e dei processi socio-lavorativi” in 2014 (Psychology of Organizational and social processes). I wrote my thesis about “Sensitivity Analysis and Structural Equation Models) at University of Vienna (Fakultät für Psychologie). I published my paper about my bachelor thesis, named “Differences between experts and non experts in perception and assessment of photography” (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-012-0456-x). I worked as Data Entry for H3g Company. I worked for several years also for a journal about food and recipes, and this is both job and hobby. I love Human Resources field and I think about this master to help me to learn skills aim to study quantitative and systematic about psychological phenomena. |
Alessandro Nardi2015-2016
Nato a Livorno nel 1975. Dopo la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura inglese e spagnola alla facoltà di Lettere di Pisa ha conseguito un Master in Gestione del Software Open-Source al Dipartimento di Informatica di Pisa. |
Roberto Narducci2020-2021
I am a researcher with more than 8 years of professional experience in the Neuroscience field, with emphasis on electrophysiology and behavioral biology. I have also considerable experience in project management (both in Academia and collaboration with cosmetic companies) and excellent ability in data visualization, analysis, scientific writing and presentation (with good command of Python, R, Matlab and Latex). |
Michela Natilli2014-2015
Having pursuit a Master Degree in Statistics and Economics at the University of Siena she has collaborated with several universities such as the University of Siena, the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, the University of Pisa. Activities focused both on classical themes of social statistics (such as poverty, immigration, tourism and health care) and on issues related to environmental sustainability and recycling, have constituted her field expertise. Special attention has been paid to the quality of the data, to the possibility of comparison and integration of different sources and to the construction of synthetic indicators. |
Leonardo Nizzoli2015-2016
Born in Pisa on the 22nd of May, 1984. In October, 2010 he earned with honors the Master Degree in Physics, with an experimental thesis on the non-linear propagation of ultra-short, intense laser pulses in gases and plasmas, in target conditions for the laser acceleration of relativistic electron bunches. From early 2011 to the end of 2015, he collaborated with 40South Energy s.r.l. to the design, realisation and test of sea wave energy converters and wavemeters. He attended to the design of the control systems of wave energy converters, their software and hardware implementation, and their validation through fluid-dynamics simulations, learning programming skills both in simulation (Matlab, Mathematica, Comsol Multi-Physics) and in complex hardware systems handling. Engaged in political, social and cultural life in Pisa, he was member and founder of the Aut-Aut Cultural Association, and member of the board of the website www.autautpisa.it, online up to 2014. |
Alberto Olivieri2018-2019
I was born in Verona but I lived most of my life in Padua, Salerno, Crete and now in Pisa. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Archeology at the University of Padua and then, during my master's years, I specialized in Urban Planning of the Ancient Greek World at the University of Salerno. While working with the University, I begun to study and use databases, GIS, statistical techniques and programming languages related to data science. For this reason I decided to begun this path with the Master in Biga Data. |
Giordano Onorati2017-2018
Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Master's Degree in Statistics for Information Systems and Master's Degree in Technological Innovation and Design for Urban Systems. During the Master's degree thesis I developed a geomarketing analysis aimed at creating a ranking of points of sale through the creation of a composite indicator able to describe the level of competitiveness. The economic potential has been evaluated in terms of purchasing capacity of the resident population in the catchment areas of each point of sale and of the specific characteristics, both of the point of sale itself and of the urban context interior of which was located. The information related to each of the territorial areas has been reconstructed based on the results of the Population Census for census sections and the type of land. Finally the registration to the Tim Big Data Challenge 2015 which gave me the opportunity to work with the data relating to the telephone cells. |
Gabriele Ottaviani2021-2022
I earned a bachelor's degree in physics in Rome, with a specialization in statistical mechanics. During my master's degree I had the opportunity to delve into concepts such as Neural Networks, Stochastic Processes and Complex Systems, acquiring theoretical knowledge underlying many ML algorithms. Passionate about programming and quantitative analysis, I found in Data Science the meeting point between these two worlds, and I decided to enroll in this master in Big Data to follow my dream of working in this field. In my spare time, I like to go hiking in the mountains. |
Giangaetano Pachera2019-2020
I'm graduated in Intercultural Development of Tourist Systems at Ca' Foscari University and Graphic and Multimedia Communication at Iusve University. I'm into sport, travel and new technologies. During my studies I worked as freelancer web dev on digital marketing projects and supported the management of some tourist resorts. In order to face the fast change brought by the digital transformation, I guess we all need a never-stop-learning approach, and this master gets right to the point. |
Luca Paganelli2018-2019
Born in Lucca. I obtained the following qualifications at the University of Pisa: Degree in "Electronic Engineering" (1989) "Electronic Calculators" - 109/110, University Master in "Internet Technologies" (2005) Faculty of Engineering and CNR - High rating, University Master in "Development of Mobile Applications" (2012) Department of Computer Science - Excellent judgment with honors. I work at the research department of "Fabio Perini SpA" in Lucca, where I work on the subjects of "industrial automation" and "Industry 4.0". It prompted me to participate to the Master in "Big Data Analytics & Social Mining" the will to stay up to date and learn new technologies with particular reference to the techniques of "artificial intelligence" and "Machine Learning". |
Daniele Pau2018-2019
Born in Cagliari, I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering at the University of Cagliari then in 2018 I earned the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pisa with a grade of 110/110 cum laude, developing my thesis at Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, specialized institution of the Regional Health Service of Tuscany, aimed at the design and development of a web application for tracking and monitoring sensitive data in electronic medical records. For a short time, I held the position of Consultant Engineer in Turin at Magneti Marelli, an Italian multinational company operating in the Automotive sector, working on the HMI section within a project for Alfa Romeo as a GUI developer in a WebKit-based environment. With a university career in the field of information technologies and with the competences acquired successively, driven by the interest in Data Science, I decided to enroll in this Master to consolidate old topics and face new ones. |
Gina Pavone2017-2018
She got a bachelor's degree in foreign languages and cultures and a master's degree in publishing and writing, specializing in investigative journalism. She has written for various newspapers and she regularely realized inquiries and reports for D, magazine of the newspaper La Repubblica. Working for the magazine on gender economics ingenere.it, data became something she refered to more and more assiduously. She then attended a data journalism summer school at the university of Trieste and a course on visual journalism at the university of Bolzano. Since 2015 she’s been working at Openpolis, a civic observatory that uses open data for transparency projects regarding institutions and public administrations. She delved into the aspects of narrative reporting and studied editing techniques, linguistic simplification and editorial desk obtaining a master in copy editing. |
Pavone2014-2015
Roberto Pavone, born in 1980, has obtained a degree in Architecture with a final vote of 110 cum laude / 110. His research in the recent years has focused on the visualization of Big Data related to urban and social phenomena. On a European scale, in the architectural field, through the ENSAPB of Paris and in particular the AA Architectural Association of London, he has developed parametrical approaches with scripts for the analysis and the form finding of urban configurations and buildings. In the field of Smart Cities he has investigated and developed methods for displaying the tracking of data related to the flow of people in urban areas. |
Gilda Pepe2020-2021
After earning professional experience working in graphic designing, I decided to study European Languages and Literatures at the university of Naples “L’Orientale”, graduating in 2017 with my bachelor’s degree. |
Ignazio Pisanu2017-2018
My name is Ignazio, I’m 25 and I am from Sardinia, where I lived until 18. I then moved to Pisa where I obtained a BA in History and Philosophy. I participated in an Erasmus exchange programme and studied in Corte (France), where I worked on my dissertation. I started a master's degree in Mass Media and Politics at the University of Bologna and acquired skills in political communication and public opinion analysis. In 2017 I was awarded a scholarship to spend five months in Russia at the People’s Friendship University of Russia. There I had the opportunity to study at the school of International Journalism and started a research project on public opinion analysis, which later inspired my master’s dissertation. I graduated with honours in 2017. During the university years I worked for three Italian newspapers as an editor and a journalist and was in charge of the online newspaper Cronacastorica.net. |
Michele Pizzardo2017-2018
Born in Rovigo in 1992, I obtained the Master’s degree in Physics at the University of Padua, with honors. I have discussed a thesis in Cosmology, combinig the theoretical and the computational aspects of this discipline to develop and prove the potentialities of a linear response function dealing with the non-linear effects acting on the evolution of the large-scale structure of the Universe at the baryon acoustic oscillations scales. I have always been attracted by the capability of data to reveal enlightening information if appropriately handled, leading to the solution of complex problems regarding different areas, from the business to the social and political ones, so I am attending this course to complete my formation, in order to acquire the knowledge needed to immerse myself in the Data Science world, to make of it the core of my future working activity. |
Andrea Pugnana2019-2020
I was born in Sarzana (SP) in 1993. I graduated with honors in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University in 2018. There I also started working as a research assistant, focusing on micro-econometrics analysis. Afterwards, I joined Booster Box S.r.l., a scientific marketing agency, where I mainly deal with data analysis and algorithms for bidding. |
Maria Raffa2020-2021
My name is Maria and I was born in Messina in 1995. I got my Bachelor's Degree in philosophy at the University of Bologna, and later I chose to deep into the philosophy of science, joining a Master's course in Philosophy of Information at Urbino. My studies made me aware of how the philosophical tools can be useful for analyzing and understanding the hard sciences, and specifically I am very passionate about the issues of the role of modern technology in scientific research. For this reason, I'm trying to sharpen my skills in reading and manipulating data, and therefore I enrolled in the SoBigData Master, that provided me with many useful tools and made me able to face myself with the practical aspects left behind my training so far. |
Barbara Ranghetti2018-2019
Barbara Ranghetti is 26 years old and was born and raised in Bergamo. She attended the Faculty of Physics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, getting a bachelor's degree with an experimental thesis conducted at the university's radioactivity lab, in the field of environmental applied physics. She graduated cum Laude at the same university in November 2018, with a thesis entitled "Characterization of neutron fluxes through neutron spectroscopy measurements", conducted at the university's radioactivity laboratory and at the ENEA research center (Casaccia , Rome). During the master's degree she begins to take interest in Big Data and decides to continue her studies by attending the Master's program, to expand her computer skills applied to data analysis. |
Cecilia Rinaldi2015-2016
Cecilia Rinaldi was born in Cecina (LI) on 05/02/1981. She holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Statistics from the University of Pisa. In 2006, a few months before graduation, she began working for Ducato S.p.A. as marketing analyst. Since 2010 works as data analyst on SAS platform at Agos Ducato S.p.A., specifically focusing on business intelligence and multivariate statistical analysis in direct marketing and credit cards. She decided to attend the master to expand their programming skills and acquire skills in analyzing text and data from social media. https://it.linkedin.com/in/rinaldicecilia |
Anna Romani2016-2017
I was born in Pisa, where I studied Philosophy at the University. I obtained the Master Degree in 2013 and I'm currently a Ph.d candidate at the University of Pisa and Florence. During my research periods abroad (Cologne, Paris) I had the occasion to improve my English, German and French. I choose the Master in Big Data Analysis and Social Mining to enrich my knowledge and skills. |
Cristina Romani2018-2019
I graduated in 2014 at the University of Pisa with a Master's Degree in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnologies with an experimental thesis on the role of a poplar protein in zinc tolerance processes in the field of phytoremediation of soils polluted by heavy metals. During my career I understood the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving and also the importance of data management and interpretation. The decision to enroll in the Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining derived from the desire to acquire skills in this area. |
Stefano Ruzza2017-2018
Stefano was born in Turin on 1987. He earned a BSc in Physics from the University of Turin with a dissertation on the processes of epidemic diffusion on complex networks. He then obtained a Master's degree in Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics from the same university. His dissertation is entitled: "Statistical Inference and Criticality". Stefano collaborated with an IT company in compiling statistics on football events and currently works as a scientific communicator for primary and secondary school children at a teaching laboratory in Turin. |
Nicola Salerno2019-2020
After graduation, I embarked on an international experience in which I acquired knowledge of the main foreign languages and occupied several job positions as sales executive (in the industrial, hospitality, logistics) and customer care specialist (e-commerce fashion sector) where I did social media and digital training in a data-driven reality before returning to Italy for my latest work experience as a digital marketing strategist for a company operating in the workwear sector. From the analysis both of the customers and of the results of the advertising campaigns, I developed a passion for data and I decided to increase knowledge and specialize and to become expert in the Big Data field. |
Fabio Santullo2014-2015
Fabio Santullo holds a Bachelor degree in historical sciences from University of Pisa (2009) with a thesis entitled " A year of baptisms in Pisa 1557 " actively contributing to the project web "The baptisms of Pisa from 1457 to 1557" and in the same University holds Master degree in the history and civilization(2013) with a thesis entitled "The first Jesuit missionaries in Japan and the first Japanese embassy in Italy”. After some work experience in the world of teaching and administration both private and public, he decided to attend the master in Big Data and Social Mining to expand their knowledge in the world of Big Data. |
Franco Savastano2017-2018
He is from Rome and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Post graduate Master’s degree in Biological Oceanography and Marine Biology. The experience and the knowledge he gained in the scientific and IT field both during the internship and doing research for his thesis project at ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale), led him to comprehend how important it is, for a scientific team, to have a professional figure skilful at elaborating and interpreting data. Therefore, he decided to enrol in the Big Data & Social Mining Specialization Course at the University of Pisa, setting the goal of acquiring the typical Data Scientist skills in order to employ them in scientific research, as well as in its decisional process, focusing on their application in the environmental field. |
Riccardo Scasso2020-2021
I am an enterprising person, always looking for new challenges. I studied at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa and then I continued my master studies in Banking, Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.During those days thanks to some projects, I began to know better the world of Big data and for this reason, I decided to undertake this experience, to complete my studies. The Master has been a unique experience that has allowed me to grow a lot. |
Daniela Senatore2015-2016
Graduated masterful cum laude in “Business and Public Communication” at the University of Salerno with a thesis entitled “Public Administration’s approach to the e-governance. Analysis of istitutional twitter profiles”. The research focuses on relations between State and civil society, practices and experiences of shared management of “res publica”. This research is continued with an article entitled "Social media communication in central governments: the case of twitter activity of Italian Ministries", published on the “Nova Science Publishers - Journal of Communications Research”. To the Press agent experience at the Province of Salerno follows the representation of the research area of the Observatory for Communication and Participation of Youth Cultures (OCPG). Council member of “Progetti in Network”, a cultural association based in Salerno. The association is specialized in communication and cultural activities and conferences and seminars organizat”, a cultural association based in Salerno. Responsible for organizing secretary of the “Eighth Annual Conference of the ESPAnet Italia”, the network of italian and european social policies. |
Paola Serrati2018-2019
Paola Serrati' was born in 1988 in Lecce. She earned her master’s degree, with honors, in Comparative Modern Culture from the University of Turin. After some experiences in communications, she was the research manager of the "Sciascia and France" project, in association with the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation and Friends of Leonardo Sciascia Association. She’s specialized in creative writing, attending "Laura Lepri Scritture" courses at the Formentini Laboratory, in Milan. She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of the Italian for foreigners at high school and junior high school. She enrolled in Master of Big Data to develop her humanistic education with the skills and the innovative methods of Data Science. |
Carmela Sgroi2020-2021
I graduated in Internationalization of Trade Relations at the University of Catania and I have deepened part of my university studies with the help of private courses and self-study. In this way I have acquired a wide and varied knowledge that covers the areas related to law, economics, marketing and business internationalization. In these years I realised how the management and analysis of large amounts of data play a crucial role in the modern world and in many aspects of our economic and social life. The main reason I decided to enrol in this Master lies in the desire to approach this field in order to broaden my knowledge and acquire new skills. |
Jorge Eduardo Shortrede2021-2022
I’m an experienced molecular biologist with a Ph.D. in Translational and clinical science. I’m doing a second level master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining, where I learned to work with python, R and SQL server among others. I have 9 years of experience in life science research and 1 year in industry. Moreover, I’m a proactive, self-motivated, and collaborative person with willingness to learn and get out from the comfort zone. Likewise, I consider myself brought to teamwork. I speak fluently Spanish, English, and Italian. Furthermore, I have 11 publications on indexed international journals. I acquired good scientific data communication skills through the participation to 13 congresses of international societies. I currently work in the Imaging-Lab at the Department of Translational Research in the University of Pisa. As a hobby, I love climbing and hiking. |
Niccolò Silicani2020-2021
Born in Pietrasanta (LU) in 1994, after the bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics at University of Pisa, I moved to Rome where I graduated from LUISS Guido Carli in Economics and Finance. I Worked as consultant at a Big Four firm. I decided to enroll in the Master because I believe that in today's society, reshaped by Big Data, it is necessary to acquire useful tools to disentangle information from noise, in order to offer decisive support to industrial and research projects. |
Silvia Silini2019-2020
After a Bachelor degree in "International and European studies" at the Univeristy of Milan where I have gained insight on the work of the European and International institutions, I decided to specialise myself in the migration field with the Master “Sociology of Migrations and interethnical relations” at the Paris Diderot University. Following some professional experiences in public and private institutions, I finally sign up for this Master in Big Data Analytics with the aim of gaining new skills and knowledge useful to analyze and study our complex society from a quantitative point of view. |
Roberto Maria Sorrentino2015-2016
Born in Pagani (Sa) on 18.07.1989. He obtained a Master's Degree in Business Administration, and, during his studies, he had the chance to approach the world of Big Data at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria where, during an internship program, he was involved in many quantitative analysis. After a final thesis in Data Mining, he decided to enroll in this Master. The aim is to enrich the CV of technical skills both in the use of application software, and in the development of metodologies for summarize knowledge and information for decision making in public and private companies. |
Elisabetta Sperandeo2016-2017
Born in Pisa on December 25, 1989. Graduated with honors in Business Administration with a major in Accounting at the University of Pisa in 2015. Worked in auditing for one of the Big Four firms. Passionate about entrepreneurship, marketing and the digital world, I’ve been trying to make these topics merge together in my continuous learning experience, beginning with a MOOC in Digital Marketing offered by the University of Illinois up to the Master in Big Data Analytics in which I’m currently enrolled. |
Gianluca Sperduti2019-2020
Born in Rome in 1994. I studied Modern Literature at the University of Tor Vergata and I graduated in Modern Philology at La Sapienza (University of Rome) discussing a degree thesis on Robots in West literature. Always interested in the relationship between technological and humanistic skills, I decided to enroll in the master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to get 360-degress training and skill. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gianluca-sperduti-b14364164 |
Nunzia Squicciarini2018-2019
I graduated from the University of Pisa with a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's degree in Management Engineering. During my master thesis, driven by a strong curiosity, I approached the study of Data Mining and Machine Learning. Specifically, I used these techniques on a large dataset of Emergency Department visits to build predictive models of patient waiting times. I am currently a research fellow at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering of the University if Pisa where I study predictive analytics applied in the healthcare field. I enrolled in the post graduate course in Big Data Analytics to improve my programming skills and explore the wide variety of techniques offered by Data Science. |
Livio Stefanelli2016-2017
After the laurea degree in Physics at the University of Pisa, I spent a short working period in Italy and in the United States followed by a long and interesting multidisciplinary experience abroad, mainly in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and France. This allowed me to participate to the ESA projects (European Space Agency) as well as in the research initiatives funded by the European Commission. Later, I worked as an official at the Directorate General Research of the European Commission and recently at the Representation of the Tuscany Region in Brussels as policy officer. This experience, developed in public and private sectors, give me the opportunity to appreciate the potential of Big Data that can be expressed in almost all fields of our knowledge paving the way to new rich entrepreneurial projects and to scientific cooperation at European level. |
Isaia Tarquini2018-2019
Born in Rome and raised in Abruzzo, I have been living in Bologna for a long time now. I have received my master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, and I have worked in the last 18 years as software architect / developer for Prometeia s.p.a. At Prometeia, I mainly dealt with implementation of financial risk management software (Asset & Liability Management – Market Risk) and management of teams composed of developers and analysts in regulatory projects (Basel III – IFRS9/IFRS13 accounting) with special attention to critical optimization and fast data processing topics. Always computer science and new technologies enthusiast, I decided to attend the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to be part of what I believe is one of the most exciting revolutions in the field of information technology in recent years. |
Cinzia Tavernari2016-2017
Before taking up big data, Cinzia has explored the Near East for some years and she has researched and taught Islamic archaeology at several institutions around the world (MIT, Inalco, Abdullah Gul University). She has enjoyed her itinerant life thoroughly and, most of all, she has learnt that she enjoys extracting meaning from data; she believes it is a compelling way to better understand the world. This passion and a rising interest for digital technologies as a powerful tool to get a distinctive insight of data has lead Cinzia to embark in a new adventure to become a data scientist. Cinzia earned a MA in Oriental languages at the University of Venice and a PhD in Islamic archaeology at Sorbonne University, with a thesis on the road networks and caravanserais of the medieval Near East. Cinzia tackled different experiences that particularly developed her cross-cultural skills, including strong communication skills in different languages and keen critical-thinking abilities. |
Massimo Tosato2016-2017
Born in Vicenza in 1989. After a scientific high school diploma, he earns a bachelor’s degree in Communication Science from the university of Verona, presenting an experimental thesis on the dynamics of virtualization of minor ethnic communities. He subsequently moves to Siena to study the relationships between social networks, cultural structures and communicative agency in the digital mediascape by attending the courses of the master’s degree in Visual Anthropology. Here he synthesizes a proposal for a social research methodology to be applied to the internet, which finds application in an ethnographic thesis titled “To recognize and accept the real in the virtual. r/Italy, online ethnography of a ‘virtual community’”. After graduating with honors, he decides to continue his studies to equip himself with Data Science techniques and perspectives to integrate the extraction and functional manipulation of information with storytelling capabilities and knowledge processing. |
Attilio Trovato2019-2020
I am a 27-year-old Sicilian with a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and a Master’s degree in Linguistics and cognitive studies. I have a passion for NLP, Open Data, and Machine Learning. In the last five years, I have covered responsibility roles in cultural associations, building up communication and team-work skills. I had the chance to participate in the Erasmus+ program twice, at the Universidad de Coimbra, in Portugal, and at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in the Netherlands. I worked on computational and generative linguistics, obtaining academic publications in the latter. I am an enthusiast of innovation and Big Data world. I like challenges and problems and learning new ways to solve them. The learning of Python and more generally, the computational problem solving typical of informatic programming, shaded new lights on my way of thinking of both my previous studies in humanities and the new challenges that this society imposes to people and the companies. |
Angelo Emanuele Turco2019-2020
I am a computer engineer. I got the bachelor degree at "Università di Palermo", and the master degree at "Politecnico di Torino" in October 2015. After that, I moved to Wales to improve my English by studying at a college. After seven months, June 2016, eventually my first job as software developer at a multinational semiconductor company in The Netherlands, where I stayed for one year. June 2017, wishing to change work field and to go back to Italy, I moved again, to Catania, where I start working for an american company as software developer in IPTV industry. After two years and half, I was not learning anymore, so my interest about that job fell down, then I decided to leave everything and move to Pisa where I started studying for a master in Big Data. I love spending my free time outdoor, meeting new people and staying in group to have fun, and to work as well. My favorite sports 5-a-side football and swimming. |
Manuel Usai2016-2017
In 2015 he earned a master's degree in Governance and Global System at the University of Cagliari, during this time he deepened his studies on regional and global security analysis at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He concluded his studies in Scotland where made a thesis on the effects of a hypothetical Scottish independence on the UK socio-economic security. Hence he decided to attend the Master in Big Data Analysis to expand his social analysis knowledge and interest in Machine Learning methods. |
Giulia Vasciaveo2019-2020
I graduated in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, with a thesis on Machine Learning applied to Big Data. I immediately found a job at a company in the data analysis field, offering technological support to the data scientist team and involved in projects for the implementation, development and automation of procedures for Data Integration, Transformation and Visualization as well as the organization of the data infrastructure. Afterwards I thought it was appropriate to learn in deep the topics of Big Data by enrolling in this postgraduate master, in order to develop new skills in the field that fascinates me the most and in which I would like to find work opportunities. |
Paolo Verdini2014-2015
Paolo Verdini graduated with honours in Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he also earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy, mainly dedicated to Mathematical Logic. His academic interests span from Model Theory to Applied Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, and he is also extremely fascinated by the potential residing in the developments of the semantic web and the implementation of natural language in a syntaxoriented environment (e.g. Speech recognition). A research proposal in Abstract Model Theory has recently granted him a full doctoral scholarship for studying at the Center for Logic, Language and Computation at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has worked as Teacher of Italian Language (both in Italy and abroad), and he is currently Blog Editor and Electronic Entertainment Journalist at GameStop.it s.r.l., the Italian branch of GameStop Corp. He is also proficient in six different languages (including Mandarin and Japanese) and holds a Master Diploma in Storytelling and Creative Writing, obtained from Alessandro Baricco's Scuola Holden, placed in Turin, Italy |
Maria Rosa Verrone2015-2016
Laureata con lode in Mercati Finanziari, con tesi in “Crisi bancarie sistemiche: il caso dell’Islanda”, si avvicina allo studio dei modelli statistico/matematici applicati ai mercati finanziari. Durante il periodo di studi universitari, ha l’occasione, attraverso la conduzione di indagini sociali periodiche, organizzate dall’ISTAT, di apprezzare l’importanza dell’analisi dei dati come strumento per conoscere la struttura della società. Dopo la laurea, lavora come analista, per più di due anni, in una multinazionale americana nel settore del credito, nell’ambito marketing e sales. La formazione accademica e l’esperienza lavorativa hanno costituito l’humus ideale per coltivare l’interesse verso l’affascinante mondo dei big data nella ricerca ed interpretazione di dati significativi per le scelte strategiche di aziende ed istituzioni. |
Vincenzo Verzino2016-2017
From Crotone to Pisa, my path touched different cities where I had the opportunity to make different experiences, all connected by the passion for marketing research and data analysis. I firstly graduated in Economics & Management in Parma and moved to Turin to attend a first level master in Management. I obtained a Master Degree in Marketing Management with a thesis on brand equity measurement models and moved right away to Malta, where I worked as financial consultant for about one year. Once back to Italy, I had an experience working in Marketing and Business Planning office for Cariparma, in La Spezia. I decided to attend this Master in Big Data to integrate my knowledge of analysis software as SPSS and R with data mining and machine learning techniques as well as python and SQL programming languages. |
Denys Florian Vincon2016-2017
Born in Palermo in 1982 and grew up between this city and Paris. Ended up in a master in big data analytics after a path trough space and disciplines. After a beginning in engineering, he obtains a bachelor in Philosophy at the University of Palermo in 2007, then he continues with studies in history and sociology of science and technology at the EHESS of Paris. Here he later graduates in philosophy and cognitive science in 2009. In 2014 he earns a PhD in philosophy and social sciences between the EHESS of Paris and the University of Turin with a dissertation on the perception ad logical structure of images. During the PhD he is visiting student at the University of Edinburgh and visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. He becomes interested in data science because of a growing passion for the quantitative study of social phenomena, namely in the context of information and communication technology. |
Marco Zecchinato2020-2021
I graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Padova. In particular, I focused on the theoretical description of the so-called fundamental interactions, which are four "forces" which regulate all natural phenomena. |
