ST’s Short Profile

Silvia grew up near the Gran Sasso mountains in the Italian Apennines. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Physics, she worked with Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Dario Grasso, and Massimo Mannarelli on characterizing the thermodynamic properties of black hole analogs realized with weakly interacting Bose gases.

She then joined the Gran Sasso Science Institute for her PhD, focusing on the out-of-equilibrium properties of analog black holes. Together with Elena Poli and Thomas Bland—former members of the theory team in Francesca Ferlaino’s group—she contributed to the development of the first analog model of a neutron star using dipolar atoms in the supersolid phase.

In 2025, she joined the theory group of Prof. Francesca Ferlaino to work on Gross–Pitaevskii simulations.

 

ST’s CV at Glance

 

10/2025 – present

Post-doctoral fellow in the Theory group of Prof. F. Ferlaino at the University of Innsbruck
2025

Awarded with QuantA Fellowship Call 2025 – Empowering Women in Quantum Science
2021-2025

PhD at Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy) under the supervision of Massimo Mannarelli. Thesis title: Unveiling compact objects with ultracold atoms
2014-2021

BSc and MSc at University of Pisa (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Maria Luisa Chiofalo

MSc Thesis Title: Thermal Properties of the acoustic horizon.

ST’s Dipolar Publications

2024
[2]Exploring pulsar glitches with dipolar supersolids,
T. Bland, F. Ferlaino, Massimo Mannarelli, E. Poli, S. Trabucco,
Few-Body Systems, 65, 2024. [more] [pdf] [doi] [arXiv]
2023
[1]Glitches in rotating supersolids,
E. Poli, T. Bland, S. J. M. White, M. J. Mark, F. Ferlaino, S. Trabucco, M. Mannarelli,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 131, 223401, 2023. [more] [pdf] [doi] [arXiv]

ST’s Other Publications

2025
[7]Binary superfluids: Low-energy properties and dissipative processes from spontaneous emission of massive phonons,
L. Lepori M. L. Chiofalo M. Mannarelli S. Trabucco,
Phys. Rev. D, 111, 125024, 2025. [more] [pdf] [doi]
[6]Gravitational waves and Black Hole perturbations in acoustic analogues,
M. L. Chiofalo D. Grasso S. Liberati M. Mannarelli S. Trabucco C. Coviello,
AVS Quantum Science, 7, 014401, 2025. [more] [pdf] [doi]
2024
[5]Superfluid dark stars,
M. Mannarelli F. Nesti S. Trabucco L. Cipriani,
Phys. Rev. D, 110, L021301, 2024. [more] [pdf] [doi]
[4]Dissipative processes at the acoustic horizon,
D. Grasso M. Mannarelli S. Trabucco M. L. Chiofalo,
New Journal of Physics, 26, 053021, 2024. [more] [pdf] [doi]
[3]A diagrammatic approach to correlation functions in superfluids: a special issue in memory of Renaud Parentani (1962-2020),
M. L. Chiofalo M. Mannarelli S. Trabucco A. Biondi,
Comptes Rendus. Physique, 2024. [more] [doi]
2021
[2]Hawking temperature and phonon emission in acoustic holes,
M. Mannarelli, D. Grasso, S. Trabucco, M. L. Chiofalo,
Phys. Rev. D, 103, 076001, 2021. [more] [pdf] [doi]
[1]Phonon emission by acoustic black holes,
M. Massimo, D. Dario, S. Trabucco, M. L. Chiofalo,
2021. [more] [pdf]