Experience

Engineering across scales, from chassis to chips.

Mechanical engineering training at Politecnico di Milano and TU Delft, with hands-on work in motorsport structures and integrated photonics.

  1. Sep 2024 – now

    MSc Mechanical Engineering, High-Tech Engineering track

    TU Delft · Delft, NL

    Thesis: Local versus Global Zeroth-Order Training of MZI-Mesh Photonic Neural Networks. Physical modelling of MZI meshes and their non-idealities, and a controlled comparison of on-chip training strategies.

  2. Jul 2025 – now

    Junior Development Engineer (part-time)

    Single Quantum · Delft, NL

    Design and development of optical instrumentation.

  3. Nov 2023 – Sep 2024

    Workshop Manager

    DynamiΣ PRC, Formula Student team of Politecnico di Milano
    • Managed and supervised the team's production spaces.
    • Acquired new sponsors, working directly with companies outside the university.
  4. Mar 2023 – Nov 2023

    Chassis Department, Team Member

    DynamiΣ PRC · Milan, IT

    Designed the front wing structure of the prototype: composite lamination, internal architecture and mounting system, verified with explicit impact simulations.

  5. Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

    Tutor

    Politecnico di Milano · Milan, IT

    Supported students in Experimental Physics, Chemistry and Calculus 2.

  6. Sep 2021 – Jun 2024

    BSc Mechanical Engineering

    Politecnico di Milano · Milan, IT

    Best Freshmen Award 2021/22. Group thesis on the design of a mechanical press, with a personal focus on analytical and numerical sizing of the assembly.

Skills

Simulation

Altair HyperWorks, Abaqus, ANSYS. Physical modelling of photonic circuits and noise in Python.

Design

Siemens NX, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, FreeCAD. Composite layup design.

Code & languages

Python, MATLAB, LaTeX. Italian (native), English (C1, IELTS), French (basic).

CV

The full CV, as a one-page PDF.