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I was born in Rome in 1983.

♦ 2012, Director of Software Development at CytoSolve Inc.

The project I was involved in there at the MIT became a company, and the company offered me to enter in a Research & Entrepreneurial environment! Experience growing a Company in the US..how exciting is that? A LOT!

♦ 2011, Consulting:

Since October 2011 I also provide my services as Bioinformatics Eng. Consultant to a company located in Boston, MA, USA. My consulting services are for companies that have their core business focused on topics where I have → Research experience
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♦ 2011, Postdoc:

Since June 2011 I work at “Sapienza”, University of Rome, Medical School, S.Andrea Hospital-site where I got hired as Postdoctoral Research Associate to study Multiple Sclerosis, integrating (i) Bioinformatics approaches, (ii) typical wet-lab experiments and (iii) genetic information. The project started with the intuition of Professor Marco Salvetti, who realized that Computer Science and Mathematical modeling might accelerate research on Multiple Sclerosis. Continue this reading on my → Multiple Sclerosis Bioinformatics Research page

♦ 2010, Ph.D. in Mathematics and Informatics,

Thesis: → Optimization and Ontology for Computational Systems Biology

• From April 2009 until October 2010 I’ve been doing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States – where I’m involved in a MIT/Harvard joint research project and my contribution is mainly focused on the development of new computational paradigms for Systems Biology; in particular, under the supervision of Professor C. Forbes Dewey, I’m using biomedical ontologies and runnable pathways to aggregate isolated and heterogeneous information into uniform knowledge. Continue this reading on my → Biomedical Data Integration Research page

• During the first quarter of 2009 I carried out an internship at The Microsoft Research – Centre for Computational and System Biology, Trento, Italy. The research, under the co-supervision of Professor G. Nicosia and Professor Corrado Priami, was focused on the use of BlenX for modeling the Toll-like Receptor, a key component in the human immune system. Continue this reading on my → Immune System Research page

• On September 2008 I joined Professor Giuseppe Nicosia’s research group. He became Advisor of my PhD path, together with Professor Di Gregorio. Together with Professor G. Nicosia and other colleagues, we begun a deep study of the Carbon Metabolism Pathway; main objectives of this research are (i) the development of efficient methods for CO2 sequestration and (ii) the control of the Nitrogen cycle. Continue this reading on my → Carbon Metabolism Research page

• On November 2007 I began my Ph.D. Course in “Mathematics and Informatics” at Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria and I chose Professor Salvatore Di Gregorio as my Advisor.

♦ 2007, Master of Science from University of Calabria in Computer Science, with marks 110/110, Summa cum Laude and Academic Mention.

Thesis work: AMMISCA, a new Genetic Algorithm for the modelling and simulation of macroscopic phenomena with Cellular Automata: development of an evolved model for lava flows

• In 2006 I’ve joined Professor S. Di Gregorio’s research group (link, in Italian) at the Center of High Performance Computing for Parallel and Distributed Processing where I started my research under his supervision. Co-supervisors were Dr. William Spataro and Dr. Donato D’Ambrosio. Continue this reading on my → Cellular Automata Model Research page

♦ 2005, Bachelor of Science from University of Calabria in Computer Science, with marks 110/110, Summa cum Laude and Academic Mention.

Thesis work: Design and implementation of a module for the support of the Semantic Web in a Logic Language (i.e., The RDF Atom for DLV)

• During the second quarter of 2005 I carried out an internship at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. There I worked on the LiXto Project for Semantic Data Extraction from web pages on on the DLVHEX project; with respect to the latter, I developed the very first version of the RDF atom, that is now used to import ontologies into DLV. Supervisors during this internship were Professor Georg Gottlob and Professor Thomas Eiter from the Vienna side and Professor Giovambattista Ianni on the Italian counterpart.

• In September 2002, I started my higher education program at University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy.