He has a doctorate in physics and is the author of five novels: "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" (Mondadori 2008, Strega Prize and Campiello Opera Prima Prize), "The Human Body" (Mondadori 2012), "The Black and the Silver" (Einaudi 2014 and 2017), "Devouring the Sky" (Einaudi 2018 and 2019) and "Tasmania" (Einaudi 2022, Reading Prize). For Einaudi he also published the essays "In Contagion" (2020) and "The Things I Don't Want to Forget" (2021). He has written for film ("Drought," "We Are Who We Are") and theater ("Galois," "End of Sentence: Now"). He contributes to Corriere della Sera.