I obtained a double PhD in theoretical physics in 2019 from the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands). I subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Sweden), followed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Radboud University (Netherlands). In 2025, I joined IGFAE at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where I currently hold a Global Talent Junior Fellowship. My current research activity focuses on formal aspects of quantum field theory and quantum gravity, including higher-derivative theories, ghost fields, nonlocality in black-hole formation, and entropy bounds. In particular, I am interested in quadratic gravity, a unique strictly renormalizable quantum field theory of gravity that extends general relativity through the inclusion of quadratic curvature operators. My main research goal is to establish quadratic gravity as the most conservative consistent extension of general relativity, revealing a new quantum field-theoretic layer of gravity below the Planck scale and placing gravity on the same footing as the renormalizable interactions of the Standard Model.