Scientific awards:

2023. Appointed one of the top 10 reviewers for the year 2022 for the Advances in Space Research journal. (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-space-research/reviewers/thank-you-reviewers-aisr; https://issuu.com/cosparspaceresearchtoday/docs/magazine_srt_216_online/s/22777995)

2021. The communication “Ionospheric Turbulence: a Challenge for GPS loss of lock understanding”, that I coauthored, has been awarded with a mention, for the Section 4 “Geophysics and Environmental Physics”, during the 107th National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, held as a virtual meeting from 13 to 17 September 2021. (https://www.sif.it/attivita/congresso/107/comunicazioni)

2021. The paper “A New Ionospheric Index to Investigate Electron Temperature Small-Scale Variations in the Topside Ionosphere” published in the Universe journal, that I coauthored, got the cover of the Journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/universe).

2020. The communication “First detection of a giant plasma bubble by CSES-01 satellite”, that I coauthored, has been awarded with the publication in the Journal “il Nuovo Cimento”, for the Section 4 “Geophysics and Environmental Physics”, during the 106th National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, held as a virtual meeting from 14 to 18 September 2020. (https://www.sif.it/attivita/congresso/106/comunicazioni-per-pubblicazione)

2020. Top reviewer 2019 for the Advances in Space Research journal (https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1752929820300268?token=AC574A6FE47F47C0CF75C8014D86C55CF4D65682D889C4F06D4FF3BC3829E81CBDE3E8D1BD22EE4E779041F0E88CAD8C)

2020. The paper “The shipwreck of the airship “Dirigibile Italia” in the 1928 polar venture: A retrospective analysis of the ionospheric and geomagnetic conditions” published in the Space Weather journal, that I coauthored, got the cover of the Journal (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15427390) and the attention of the AGU EOS magazine that dedicated an article to the paper. (https://eos.org/articles/space-weather-lessons-from-a-1928-dirigible-debacle).

2017. The communication “Modeling the topside ionosphere by means of electron density values as recorded by the Swarm constellation” deserved a mention, for the Section 4 “Geophysics and Environmental Physics”, during the 103rd National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, held in Trento from 11 to 15 September 2017. (https://www.sif.it/attivita/congresso/103/comunicazioni)

2013. First prize for the best communication presented at the XCIX National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, held in Trieste from 23 to 27 September 2013, Section 4a “Geophysics, Environmental Physics, Oceanography”; title of the communication “Unusual nighttime impulsive enhancements of electron density characterizing the low-latitude ionosphere: phenomenology and possible mechanisms of triggering”. (http://en.sif.it/activities/congress/xcix/presentations)

2002. "Student Grant" to ttend the conference “Plasma Processes in the near-Earth Space: INTERBALL and Beyond (INTERBALL 2002)” held from 5 to 10 February 2002 in Sofia (Bulgaria).