About me
I am a 28-year-old Italian physicist based in Zürich. I am doing my PhD in the Quantum Optoelectronics Group at ETHZ, under the supervision of Prof. Jérôme Faist, and my research focuses on how engineered vacuum field fluctuations modify electron transport in semiconductors.
I graduated in Physics in 2021 at Sapienza University in Rome, with a thesis on infrared Raman scattering on graphene, under the supervision of Prof. Leonetta Baldassarre and Prof. Francesco Mauri. In my academic period I was a fellow at the "Lamaro Pozzani" Cavalieri del Lavoro College in Rome.
I love science because I am deeply curious about reality, and I hope that a better understanding of the world can make it a better place. Sharing knowledge is my side quest, and I have been doing so with my YouTube channel miOffroio in the past 8 years.
Conferences
- APS March Meeting 2025 (Anaheim, Los Angeles - March 16, 21 2025)
Topic: Manipulating quantum Hall phases with cavity vacuum fields
References: arXiv 2502.15490 (2025), arXiv 2405.18362 (2024), Phys. Rev. X 14, 021038 (2024), Science 375, 6584 (2022)
- Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter 2024 (Erice - November 16, 19 2024)
Topic: Tuning single-particle and many-body energy gaps in a two-dimensional electron liquid in the quantum Hall regime via a hovering resonator
References: arXiv 2405.18362 (2024), Phys. Rev. X 14, 021038 (2024), Science 375, 6584 (2022)
- Quantum Center General Meeting 2024 (Schwägalp, Säntis - July 24, 26 2024)
Topic: Tuning single-particle and many-body energy gaps in the quantum Hall liquid by ultrastrong coupling with the vacuum fields of a hovering resonator
References: arXiv 2405.18362 (2024), Phys. Rev. X 14, 021038 (2024), Science 375, 6584 (2022)
- CMD30–FisMat 2023 (Milano - September 4, 8 2023)
Topic: Vacuum fields-induced breakdown of the topological protection of the integer Quantum Hall effect
References: Science 375, 6584 (2022)
- Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society 2022 (Fribourg - June 27, 30 2022)
Topic: A chiral THz metamaterial breaking time-reversal symmetry via the ultrastrong light-matter coupling with a two-dimensional electron gas
References: Phys. Rev. B 109, L161302 (2024)
Teaching
- Physics Praktikum (Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
- Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
- Physics I for Civil and Environmental Engineers (Fall 2023)
- Quantum Electronics for Physicists (Spring 2023)
Other outreach-related stuff
- A recent article on the Scuola di Politiche's magazine about quantum technologies (2024)
- Host of the World Quantum Day Event 2023
- Design of an experiment for the Nacht der Physik 2022