I have a Laurea degree (MS) with Laude in "Scienze dell'Informazione" (computer sciences and information sciences), from the University of Genoa, Italy.

As a Research Team Leader I've been involved since 1998 in several research projects funded by European Commission in the context of different framework programmes from FP4 to FP7 till, currently, Horizon-2020. The projects I've been involved ranged from the sectors of Content and Knowledge Management, ICT Solutions for Collaborative Work, Semantic Web technologies and others.

During these years, I've been specifically in charge of the design of software architectures, elicitation and formalization of user requirements, knowledge formalization and modelling, and was often charged with technical coordination and integration tasks.

I am strongly committed to innovation, and have specific expertise in design and development of enterprise-level Java-based distributed applications, but also have experience in a wide range of other distributed-systems and cloud-related technologies.