Born in Asti in 1980, Alessandro received his PhD at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Torino in 2009 with a thesis on spintronic devices. He obtained a full professor habilitation (Solid State Physics) and associate professor habilitation (Electronics) in 2017. Alessandro worked as Visiting Researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, United States of America) in 2015 and 2016, at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics (Halle, Germany) in 2017, at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory of the University of the West of England (Bristol, United Kingdom) in 2018 where he is Visiting Professor since 2021. He is scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology of Genova, in the role of project coordinator, leading an European Innovation Council consortium after securing the 3.5 M€ grant for the development of colloidal autonomous systems. He has developed a transdisciplinary profile, working in close contact with several experts scattered all over the world to build up a liquid team capable of focusing on complex systems. His current interest is the study of cybernetic systems, particularly those that can be described through holographic analogies, such as liquids and living organisms. Alessandro was director of the Cyberforest Experiment, in which he created an infrastructure for the analysis of bioelectric signals generated by a natural ecosystem in a real environment, the Paneveggio forest (Trentino Alto Adige, Italy), finding hints of phase correlation between plants. This innovative study bridges the gap between synthetic cybernetic systems and ecosystems.
Since 2019 he is in the top 2% and since 2022 in the top 0.5% scientists worldwide (applied physics). He collected and managed approximately 10 M€ of competitive and private funding, co-authored 150 papers and filed 15 patents.
