1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy
2. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via S. Sofia 44, I-95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: Casimir physics; quantum electrodynamics; quantum fluctuations; radiative processes in static and dynamical structured environments; quantum field theory in accelerated frames and in a curved spacetime; Unruh and Hawking effects; quantum optomechanics; dressed unstable states; microscopic origin of time asymmetry in quantum physics; cosmological axions and dark matter