Mattia Serra (PI)
Mattia Serra was born in Torrevecchia Teatina, a small village in Abruzzo, Italy. His path crossed Milano, Shanghai, Delft, Zurich, Boston, and San Diego!
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Physics
Sep. 2020 -
Schmidt Science Fellow - Applied Mathematics
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mentor: Prof. L. Mahadevan
Oct. 2017 - 2020
2014 - 2017
Selected Awards
NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) (2025)
NSF CAREER Award (2024)
Human Frontier Science Program (HSFP) Early Career Research Award (2024)
Hellman Fellowship in Physics (2023)
Postdoc Mobility Fellowship - Swiss National Science Foundation (2019)
Schmidt Science Fellow (2018)
ETH Medal Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (2018)