My name is Alberto Tacchella and I am currently employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy.
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the mathematical modeling of physical systems, including the associated computational challenges (e.g. rigorous simulation, verification of safety properties, etc.). For a more detailed list of my past and current interests please see the research page.
In my (increasingly vanishing) spare time I enjoy watching basketball games and randomly browsing the Internet (but who doesn't like that?). Occasionally I even venture outdoors, in which case I particularly like to hike along the beautiful trails on the Italian mountains. The picture above was taken by my friend Massimo during one of these trips.
I also have a proper blog, appropriately titled Untitled #1, which is however mostly written in Italian.
In case you were wondering, the animation in the header is a (very unsophisticated) simulation of a hard-spheres gas with elastic collisions on a two-dimensional torus (if you watch carefully, you will see some collision sooner or later). If your viewing device is struggling to keep the animation going you can tune some of the parameters (or stop the simulation altogether) using the controls in the footer of the page.