I am an experimental physicist, the leader of the Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics Group at Astrocent, and a member of the DarkSide collaborations.I received my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, based on the study of resonance particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a member of the STAR collaboration.Upon completion of my PhD, I was awarded a named fellowship (The Dicke Fellowship) at the Physics Department of Princeton University. I focused on programs for the direct detection of dark matter with the DarkSide-50 detector located in the underground lab at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy. I led the Princeton group and the analysis resulted in the world’s best exclusion limits at low dark-matter masses for nuclear and electron scatterings.My group at Astrocent is developing ultrapure SiPM based photodetectors for future generation dark matter direct detection as well as for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches. His group is also interested in applying our technologies earned in pure science to medical physics such as the Positron Emission Tomography scanner.