University of Wisconsin–Madison - Office of the Chancellor ∙
April 2026
This award honors exceptional research achievement as an independent investigator, reflecting significant scholarly impact and contributions to the field.
University of Wisconsin–Madison/WARF ∙
October 2021
Selected by WARF for a high-potential commercialization of a magnetic shielding technology. A patent titled “Radiation Shielding”(US20240354624A1, US patent pending) was filed with WARF on July 15, 2022.
Reimar Lüst Stipendium
Körber Stiftung, Hamburg (Germany) ∙
May 1999
The fellowship was awarded to work as a postdoc at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen (Germany). The project was the study of cosmic-ray-induced neutrinos and muons collected by the AMANDA neutrino telescope at the geographic South Pole. I was also actively involved in constructing the AMANDA experiment in the antarctic summer of 2000 and deploying a control system for the so-called digitally controlled Analog Optical Modules (dAOM) in 2001. The dAOMs were a possible technology for the future of neutrino observatories, at the time.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) ∙
May 1993
The fellowship was awarded to perform research with the Large Volume Detector (LVD) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy) toward my master’s thesis (Tesi di Laurea). The work was the analysis of cosmic-ray events collected by the LVD experiment to investigate the muon events for different cosmic-ray mass composition models.