Project Leader at EPFL - Giovanni obtained the PhD title in February 2012 from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, then he moved as a post-doc research scientist in the THEOS group of EPFL (Switzerland) and now he is a senior researcher in the group of Nicola Marzari.
Since May 2018, he is leading the Open Science Platform. Some of his current research interests include: ferroelectric properties of functional oxides; high-throughput computations and creation of material properties databases from ab initio simulations — he is one of the authors and developers of the AiiDA code; Wannier functions — he is one of the co-authors of the Wannier90 2.0 code — with a particular focus on transport properties.