A Formula 1 engineer, and a teacher before that.

Physics and maths teacher

Centro studi privato · Viareggio

Four years of lessons for high-school students and first-year undergraduates, both catch-up and ongoing support.

• Rebuilding missing foundations before tackling the current syllabus
• Preparation for school tests and university exams

This is where I learned that the problem is almost never today’s chapter: it is a chapter from two years ago that nobody ever closed.

Assistant Chief Engineer and Project Design Lead

Dana Incorporated · Torino

Design of dual-clutch transmissions, both mechanical and hybrid, with layouts that exist nowhere else.

• Coordination across design departments
• Client and supplier relationships on technical solutions

What I use here: moments, torque and gear ratios — year-ten mechanics, inside a gearbox.

Gearbox and Systems Engineer

Visa Cash App Racing Bulls, Formula 1 · Faenza

Bench validation of every car system — hydraulics, brakes, gearbox, clutch, steering — and correlation between measured data and physical models. Trackside as a reliability engineer from 2022 to 2024.

• New component testing methods
• Software for bench data management and statistical analysis
• Reliability monitoring and component allocation at races

What I use here: statistics and experimental data analysis — uncertainty, distributions, acceptance criteria. The very chapter that feels most pointless at school.

Junior Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

Scuderia AlphaTauri, Formula 1 · Faenza

Simulation work on vertical dynamics optimisation, race weekend preparation and analysis, 7-post rig activity. In the operations room as a suspension specialist through the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

• Analysis methodologies for kerb riding
• Definition of ride inputs for the simulator
• Software with an interface to manage simulations and analysis

What I use here: kinematics and rigid-body dynamics, on a real suspension that really moves.

Junior Performance Engineer

BMW Motorsport, DTM · Monaco di Baviera

Performance analysis, setup work and competitor monitoring across the 2020 DTM season race weekends, from the operations room and trackside.

• Damper testing on the 7-post rig
• Modelling vertical dynamics and defining optimal damping

What I use here: frequency response and the damped oscillator — the year-twelve oscillations chapter, applied to a racing car.

Internship and master’s thesis

BMW Motorsport · Monaco di Baviera

Ride and performance analysis on racing cars using the 7-post rig: Formula E, DTM, GT3 and GTE.

• Optimisation of rig testing
• Comparison between model and measurement