I am a theoretical physicist from Calimera, a small Greek-speaking town in the Heel of the Italian Boot. I received my BSc in physics (2003, high-energy cosmic rays) and my MSc in theoretical physics (2005, gamma-ray bursts) from the University of Pise. I earned the Diploma in Sciences (2005, corrugational instabilities of hyper-relativistic shocks from hypernova models) and my PhD in physics (2010, high Lorentz-factor astrophysical flows) from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pise. I was visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2004 and at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007. From 2008 I turned my attention to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequence design, and in 2011 I moved to Naples as researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging. In 2014 I contributed to first unveil the text of two cyphered missives of the Renaissance duchess Lucrezia Borgia. In 2018 I co-founded a start-up company for e-care platforms that has been acknowledged as corporate spin-off of the Italian CNR. In 2021 I moved to Lecce as researcher of the Italian CNR at the Institute of Nanotechnology. I am the primary inventor of an international patent on quantitative MRI, and co-authored one book and more than 70 papers on astrophysics, medical physics, cryptography and Medieval historiography. My main research interests include radiation therapy outcome modeling, quantitative MRI, image processing and analysis.