Curriculum Vitae

Pasquale Trinchese
Physicist and Ph.D. – entrepreneur, company director and researcher

Profile

Physicist and Ph.D., entrepreneur and company director. Since 2021 he has been leading ESTHAR S.r.l., an innovative SME operating in industrial research and technology transfer, with full and autonomous responsibility for strategic planning, organisation, management of human and physical resources, financial statements, and relations with banks, professional advisors and public bodies.

Alongside this managerial profile he brings a solid research record: more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications and research activity at INFN, CERN, Princeton University and the University of Granada, in particle physics, detector electronics and machine-learning-enhanced brain-computer interfaces; more recently, as a fixed-term researcher at the University of Molise, in artificial intelligence applied to digital health, within the national AGE-IT — Ageing Well in an Ageing Society programme.

Professional experience

Sole Director (CEO)

ESTHAR S.r.l., Nola (NA), Italy · 2021 – present

Innovative SME active in industrial research, product development and technology transfer. Position: shareholder and Sole Director.
General management of the company: strategic planning, organisation, administrative and operational direction, management of human and financial resources, financial statements and relations with banks and professional advisors.
Delivery of innovation and technology-transfer projects and coordination of the technical teams.
Design and management of public funding for innovation: Tecnonidi programme of the Campania Region, €115,000 (2026 – ongoing), including responsibility for financial reporting.

Accredited expert

Regional roster of RIS3 Campania 2021–2027 experts, Campania Region · since 2023

Listed on the roster of experts of the Campania Region Smart Specialisation Strategy for Research and Innovation (RIS3).

Fixed-term Assistant Professor (RTD-A)

University of Molise, Dep. of Biosciences and Territory, Campobasso, Italy · 2023 – 2025

Position: fixed-term Assistant Professor (RTD-A), IINF-05/A field (formerly ING-INF/05) — information processing systems. Position funded by the AGE-IT — Ageing Well in an Ageing Society project (PNRR Extended Partnership funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research).
Research: Spoke 5 “Sustainability of elderly care systems in an ageing society”, Work Package 3 “Discharge support” — design and development of the CARES — Comprehensive and Adaptive Remote Evaluation System platform for the continuous remote monitoring of patients with heart failure: a device-agnostic architecture built on IoT, cloud and artificial-intelligence technologies, with modular APIs and structured management of permissions and responsibilities across patients, caregivers and clinical staff. Study on the effects of signal noise on the reliability of artificial-intelligence models for cardiac diagnosis, identifying the mitigation strategies adopted in the platform.
Teaching: lecturer in charge of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (9 ECTS) within the degree programme in “Law, New Technologies and Security” (academic year 2023/2024), and coordinator of the introductory computer science courses of the degree programmes of the Department of Economics (academic years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025).
Institutional duties: member of the graduation board in Computer Science and Software Systems Security on 20 July 2023.

Member of a tender evaluation board

University of Molise — open procedure above the EU threshold · 18 July 2023

Evaluation of the tenders submitted for the delivery of an infrastructure for the management of authenticated data on public and private blockchains, against the criteria set out in the tender documents. Duty carried out as part of the research post held at the University.

Research fellow

University of Naples Federico II, Dep. of Physics, Naples, Italy · 2021

Development of augmented-reality solutions for crime-scene tagging, in cooperation with the justice administration.

Technical consultancy for Ericsson

Engagement of ESTHAR S.r.l., Camposano (NA), Italy · 2021

Python software development for a multinational telecommunications company.

Self-employed professional practice

Trilab, Nola (NA), Italy · 2016 – present

IT and engineering consultancy on a self-employed basis: design, development and supply of bespoke hardware and software solutions answering specific needs of industrial companies.
Areas: company information systems; instrumentation for quality control and non-destructive testing; process-data analysis software.
Main clients: DARES S.r.l.s. and SALVER S.p.A., described below.

Information systems administration and bespoke solutions

DARES S.r.l.s., Casamarciano (NA), Italy — engagement carried out through Trilab · 2016 – 2021

Administration of the company information systems, with autonomy over technical decisions and responsibility for infrastructure, security and business continuity.
Redesign of the IT infrastructure with migration of company services to the cloud and introduction of a structured document management system: a shared cloud repository with daily and weekly backup, administration and HR management moved to the cloud, and 3 TB of company data migrated and brought under management.
Instrumentation built to the company’s requirements for quality control and non-destructive testing of aerospace components: a high-brightness optical bench for the uniform illumination of parts under inspection (2016), a thermocouple datalogger with remote monitoring interface (2017), and an infrared-triggered precision chronometer (2018).

Supply of bespoke software solutions

SALVER S.p.A., Brindisi, Italy — engagement carried out through Trilab · 2017 – 2018

Thickness-reconstruction software for the non-destructive testing of aerospace parts (2017).
Analysis software for polymerisation cycles in industrial autoclaves (2018).

Research and development experience

Guest Researcher

CITIC, University of Granada, Granada, Spain · 2019

Development of machine learning and optimisation algorithms for brain-computer interfaces.

Cooperation Associate

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland · Jul – Dec 2018

Control of a robotic arm through an SSVEP-based brain-computer interface using augmented-reality stimuli.

Research Fellow

INFN, Naples, Italy · 2017

R&D towards high-sensitivity detectors for dark matter searches with noble liquids; development of the data-acquisition system of a liquid-argon time projection chamber prototype allowing for real-time event reconstruction.

Undergraduate Fellow

INFN, Naples, Italy · 2016

Characterisation of novel silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) at cryogenic temperatures; design, assembly and operation of a cryogenic test station to verify the robustness of SiPMs at liquid-argon temperature.

Guest Researcher

Dep. of Physics, Princeton University, NJ, USA · 2014

Acquisition and analysis of dark matter data within the DarkSide experiment; determination of the background from alpha particles from the inner surfaces of the DarkSide-50 liquid-argon time projection chamber.

Part-time Training

Laboratories of Cisterna di Latina, Rome, Italy · 2012

Simulation of the deformation of elastic material systems and of heat diffusion in poroelastic materials with Comsol Multiphysics.

Outreach, teaching and third mission

Science communication – Futuro Remoto

IDIS - Città della Scienza Foundation, Naples, Italy · Oct 2015

Science communication activity carried out during the 29th edition of Futuro Remoto (16–19 October 2015), contributing to the PONYS – Physics & Optics Naples Young Students event of the Department of Physics of the University of Naples Federico II.

University teaching

University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy · 2023 – 2025

Lecturer in charge of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (9 ECTS), a first-year course of the degree programme in “Law, New Technologies and Security” (academic year 2023/2024), delivered online and combining theory with hands-on work.
The course covered real use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare, drawing on the Age-It project: remote patient monitoring, advanced analysis of clinical data and optimisation of care pathways, bridging law, technology and digital health.
Coordinator of all the introductory computer science courses of the degree programmes of the Department of Economics (academic years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025), delivered online: student tutoring, subject support, and supervision and running of the examination sessions.
Member of the graduation board in Computer Science and Software Systems Security on 20 July 2023.

Digital outreach and heritage projects

ESTHAR S.r.l., Nola (NA), Italy · 2021 – present

Virtual-reality teaching laboratories for pre-primary, primary and secondary schools (anatomy, chemistry, technical laboratory).
Platforms for the digitisation and public enjoyment of cultural heritage: Postcard for the digitisation of cultural assets and Pandora, a multi-platform, multi-user virtual environment used to build the digital museum of the Bourbon Prison of Ischia.
Gigli App, an application for the public enjoyment and enhancement of the Festa dei Gigli di Nola, inscribed on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
JunctionXR, a remote assistance and training platform based on augmented reality and artificial intelligence, and VRade, a platform for running and monitoring assessments in virtual reality.
Founding of Balamb S.r.l., an innovative start-up with a social purpose (SIAVS), developing technologies with social impact.

Innovation communication and trade fairs

SMAU Milan and SMAU Naples 2022, SMAU San Francisco 2023 · 2022 – 2023

ESTHAR S.r.l. selected for the SMAU editions listed above, presenting its projects directly to companies, operators and investors, including on the United States market.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics

Dep. of Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Italy · 27 July 2021

Cycle XXXIII.
Thesis: A portable EEG-BCI framework enhanced by machine learning techniques. Supervisors: Giovanni Acampora, Autilia Vitiello.

M.Sc. in Physics

Dep. of Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Italy · 16 March 2017

Final mark: 108/110.
Thesis: Study of Silicon Photomultipliers for the DarkSide Experiment. Supervisors: Giuliana Fiorillo, Biagio Rossi.

B.Sc. in Physics

Dep. of Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Italy · 13 November 2013

Final mark: 90/110.
Thesis: Characterisation of fast detectors for radioactive beam tagging. Supervisors: Elio Rosato, Ivano Lombardo.

Post-graduate education and specialisation courses

Business Analytics for Decision Making — University of Colorado Boulder (Coursera) · Oct 2020
Introduction to Food and Health — Stanford University School of Medicine · Jul 2020
Evolutionary Computation and Applications — University of Naples Federico II, Italy · 2019
“Italo Gorini” Instrumentation & Measurement Ph.D. School — Geneva (CERN), Switzerland, 10–14 September 2018: 20 hours of lectures, final examination passed · Sep 2018
Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence — University of Naples Federico II, Italy · 2018
LabVIEW Core 1 — National Instruments Italy S.r.l., 9–11 May 2017 · May 2017
NeaPolis Innovation Summer Campus 2016 — STMicroelectronics, Arzano (NA), Italy, 1–11 September 2016, on microcontrollers and real-time operating systems, with a final HackFest · Sep 2016
Dark Matter Master Class — University of Naples Federico II, Italy · Oct 2014

Languages

Mother tongue: Italian, Neapolitan.

Language	Listening	Reading	Interaction	Speaking	Writing
English	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced
Spanish	Independent	Independent	Independent	Independent	Independent
Chinese	Basic	Basic	Basic	Basic	Basic

Self-assessed levels according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

IT skills

Professional-level technical competence, exercised from architecture through development to the analysis of results: it allows him to carry out a complete technology project single-handedly and, in a management role, to act as an informed client towards suppliers — drafting and reading specifications, assessing the soundness of bids, verifying deliverables.

Productivity, documentation and project management: Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, LibreOffice, SharePoint and Teams; LaTeX and BibTeX; advanced Excel for budgeting, cash-flow forecasting and management control; Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt charts and MS Project; planning and collaboration tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Notion).
Administration, finance and digital public administration: accounting and e-invoicing software (QuickBooks, Fatture in Cloud) and the Italian e-invoicing exchange system; in-house management software for budgeting, cash flow and management control; management dashboards and reporting. Italian public-administration portals and tools: the Consip MePA public e-procurement marketplace, regional grant-reporting platforms (SURF Campania), the Business Register and Telemaco, tax and social security portals; digital identity (SPID/CIE), certified email, digital signature, timestamping and compliant long-term archiving.
Information systems, security and business continuity: Linux and Windows Server system administration; cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes); networks, VPNs and firewalls; backup, disaster recovery and business continuity policies; document management and records registration; operational GDPR compliance; monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix).
Virtual reality, 3D and digital installations: Unity and Unreal Engine; virtual and augmented reality (Meta Quest, OpenXR, ARCore/ARKit, WebXR); 3D modelling (Blender, SketchUp, Maya, Rhinoceros, Inventor), photogrammetry, 3D scanning and Gaussian splatting; real-time rendering and optimisation; video mapping, interactive and museum installations; digitisation of cultural heritage.
Digital communication and public-facing services: content management systems (WordPress, Drupal); ticketing, online booking and e-commerce; CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho); web analytics and search optimisation (GA4, Matomo, SEO) and email marketing; digital accessibility to WCAG standards and the Italian AgID guidelines.
Data, analytics and artificial intelligence: Python for data analysis (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and deep learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow); relational, document and time-series databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB); ETL pipelines, orchestration and real-time streams (Airflow, Kafka, MQTT); generative artificial intelligence applied to business processes (API integration, RAG, agents); R, Matlab, Comsol Multiphysics and the CERN ROOT framework.
Systems design and development: microservice architectures, REST and GraphQL APIs, horizontal scalability, message queues and serverless solutions; database design, caching and load balancing; backend (Django, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js) and frontend (React, TypeScript) development; programming in Python, C, C++, Java, C#, PHP and Bash; decentralised systems, blockchain and EVM, Solidity smart contracts, IPFS and peer-to-peer networks; version control and continuous integration (Git, GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD).
Electronics, instrumentation and IoT: FPGA, PLC and microcontrollers (STMicroelectronics, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, PIC, ESP8266/ESP32); electronic design with Altium, OrCAD, KiCad and LTspice; LabVIEW; IoT systems and interoperability protocols (MQTT, BLE/Bluetooth SIG, LoRaWAN, Modbus, OPC-UA).

Conference talks

Assessing Signal Noise Effects on Machine Learning Models for ECG-Based Cardiac Diagnosis — International Conference on Health Informatics, Porto, Portugal (online participation) · Feb 2025
CARES: Comprehensive and Adaptive Remote Evaluation System — Age-It Spoke 5 conference “Sostenibilità dei sistemi di cura all’anziano in una società che invecchia”, Termoli (CB), Italy · Sep 2024
Continuous and Latent Monitoring of Cardiac Parameters via Wearable Devices and Artificial Intelligence — Age-It General Meeting, Venice, Italy · May 2024
Classifying EEG Signals in Single-Channel SSVEP-based BCIs through Support Vector Machine — IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11–14 October 2020 · Oct 2020
Applying Logistic Regression for Classification in Single-Channel SSVEP-based BCIs — IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Bari, Italy, 6–9 October 2019 · Oct 2019
SiPMs analysis — DarkSide Collaboration Meeting, GSSI L’Aquila, Italy, 20–24 February 2017 · Feb 2017
DarkSide-20k: rivelatore per la ricerca diretta di materia oscura — Società Italiana di Fisica, 102nd National Congress, Padua, Italy, 26–30 September 2016 · Sep 2016
SiPM test station in Napoli — DarkSide General Meeting, Pula, Italy, 12–16 June 2016 · Jun 2016

Publications

18 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 16 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and workshops: see Publications.