Ketnotes
About me
I'm a physics student in "Sapienza Università di Roma".
I am interested in many different topics, mostly I have been concerned with the study of systems composed of many - often interacting - components.
The 2 areas on which I have focused my Master studies are:
- (Quantum) condesed matter: the study of stuff, in its most mundane forms (e.g. glass and water) as well as its most exotic states (superfluids, superconducturos and many others).
- Statistical mechanics: the discipline that tries to make sense of the interaction between many (often ~10^23) components.
My other big passions, outside of physics, are drawing and anything sea related (swimming, freediving, scuba diving, surfing...).
Here is a short version of my full CV:
- 2001: Born in Rome
- 2003-2005: Kindergarten in Berlin
- 2015-2020: High School (Liceo scientifico) "Amedeo Avogadro" in Rome
- 2020-2023: BSc (Laurea triennale) in physics, Sapienza Università di Roma
- 2023-2025: MSc (Laurea magistrale) in theoretical physics, Sapienza Università di Roma (4 months expected to be spent at the ENS in Paris).
You can get a rough idea of what I'm like from this list of heroes of mine: Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Enrico Fermi, Marie Curie, Alan Turing, Sylvia Earle, Quentin Blake, Kim Jung Gi.
And from this list of my favourite books: The lord of the rings, The sirens of titan, IT, Maus, Enigma: la strana vita di Alan Turing.
Here are some links I found while surfing the web:
- A beautiful video on the life and science of Pierre Gilles de Gennes.
- The extremely famous article "More is different" by Philip W. Anderson.
- Another article, this one not written by a physicist but instead by the (Nobel prize winning) economist Paul Krugman. It is not hard to draw analogies between his domain and the hard sciences, and he offers refreshingly grounded views on the relationship between mathematics (models) and reality.
- A wonderful video (in italian) on the science of complexity featuring Giorgio Parisi.