Head of the "Data Exploitation Methods" department. 

PI of Virtual Access for the Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis Europe Pilot (NFFA-Europe Pilot - NEP) and of the Joint Lab "Integrated Model and Data Driven Materials Characterization" (JL-MDMC) of the Helmholtz Association. Member of NFDI-MatWerk. Speaker of the FAIR Data Commons and member of the Collaboration Board of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC). Member of the Steering Committee of the FAIR Digital Object Forum. Elected Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliace (RDA).

Background: Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) in Trieste (Italy). Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC), postdoc at the National Council of Research - Istituto di Officina dei Materiali (CNR-IOM), postdoc at KIT. 

Experience and interests: astrophysics, materials science, data analysis, research data management, metadata, FAIR Digital Objects.