Andrea Di Ciolo was born in Roma (Italy) in 1981.

He received his M. Sc. in Physics summa cum laude in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 2009, at the University of Roma "La Sapienza", under the supervision of Dr. José G. Lorenzana and Prof. Marco Grilli, working in Prof. Carlo Di Castro's group. In these years he addressed mainly the issue of electron-phonon interaction and charge instabilities in strongly correlated materials on square lattices, like the cuprates and he became expert in analytical variational approaches.

From 2009 to 2011 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany), having Prof. Claudius Gros as advisor. In this position he investigated mainly one-electron spectroscopy processes and then the renormalization of the Fermi surface of correlated electrons on triangular lattices. He increased his expertise in variational methods, in particular handling numerical approaches like the Variational Monte Carlo.

In January 2012 he started his present double appointment as a research associate in the U.S., at the University of Maryland (College Park) as a Joint Quantum Institute fellow and at Georgetown University. His present advisors are Prof. Victor Galitski (Maryland) and Prof. Marcos Rigol (Georgetown).