Andrea received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He then moved to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he obtained his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 2010. During his time in Amsterdam, he studied the properties of metal hydrides for hydrogen storage and smart windows applications.
He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he developed imaging and spectroscopic techniques to study individual nanoparticles for applications in energy conversion and storage.
In 2015, he returned to the Netherlands as a tenure-track senior scientist at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) in Eindhoven, where he led his research group on Nanomaterials for Energy Applications.
Since March 2020, he is a tenured associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy department at VU Amsterdam. His group uses optical resonances in metal nanoparticles to activate, control, and detect chemical and physical processes at the nanoscale
