Personale docente

2002: Laurea Degree (MS) in Electronic Engineering, University of Parma.
2006: Ph.D. in Information Technologies, University of Parma.  
2007-2015: Research Associate, University of Parma.
From 15/2/2013 to 31/8/2013: Visiting Researcher, at LIG Lab (Grenoble, FR), to work with the Drakkar group on decentralized naming services for IPv6-based wireless sensor networks.
2015: National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor. From 4/12/2015 to 3/12/2018: Assistant Professor (with Tenure Track), University of Parma.

From 4/12/2018 to present: Associate Professor, University of Parma. 2023: National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor.  

From 1/1/2026 to present: President of the first-cycle degree course in Computer Technologies Engineering.

Director of the Quantum Software Laboratory of the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma (https://www.qslab.unipr.it/).
Member of the Scientific Computing Working Group of the Università degli Studi di Parma.
IEEE Senior Member. ACM Member.

Spoken languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent) and French (fluent).

General background: parallel and distributed computing

Main research interests in the last 10 years: quantum computing, quantum internet

Author of more than 140 peer reviewed papers in international journals, books and conferences.

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-1lLMkMAAAAJ 

CINI Consortium delegate in the UNI/CT 535 "Quantum Technologies" UNINFO Commission, which is the national mirror of the CEN/CENELEC JTC 22 committee. Member of the IEC/ISO JTC 3 "Quantum Technologies" committee.

UNIPR’s node coordinator within CINI’s HPC-KTT Laboratory.

UNIPR’s team Principal Investigator and WP4 Lead in the Horizon Europe project Quantum Internet Alliance

Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (27/4/2020 - ongoing).

Reviewer for several journals and international conferences. 

Participation to research projects:

• 2024-2025: PI for the project "Advanced QUAntum MAchine learNing (AQUAMAN)" funded by the European Commission – NextGenerationEU – Initiative of the Piano Complementare al Piano Nazionale Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) as part of the National Center on HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing - Spoke 10
• 2022-2026: PI for the University of Parma team in the FPA "Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA)" (Project ID: 101080128) and in the SGA "QIA Phase 1" (Project ID: 101102140), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme
• 2022-2026: Extended Partnership "National Quantum Science and Technology Insitute" funded by the European Commission – NextGenerationEU – Initiative of the Piano Complementare al Piano Nazionale Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)
• 2021-2022: PI of the activity "Technological Enablers for Preserving Data Integrity of Georeferenced and Position Information" funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), Contract No. 4000135821/21/NL/CRS/mkn
• 2019-2021: IT Development Technical Manager of the Regional Project POSITIVE (POR FESR 2014-2020)
• 2018-2020: EU Project NAVIGATE (ERASMUS+ 2017-1-BG01-KA203-036383)
• 2017-2018: PI of the NEXTALGO project funded by the University of Parma Research Fund - FIL 2016.
• 2016-2017: PI of the Italian team in the Galileo Project "Security Protocols for the Cloud-oriented Internet of Things (SeCIoT)" (G16-31), in collaboration with LIG Lab (Grenoble, FR) 
• 2016-2018: Regional Project ALADIN (POR FESR 2014-2020)
• 2011-2014: EU Project CALIPSO (FP7-ICT-2011-7-288879)
• 2010-2012: EU Project METABO (FP7-ICT-2007-1-216270)
• 2007-2010: EU Project PERSONA (FP6-IST-2005-045459)
• 2007-2008: National Project PRIN PROFILES (Peer to peeR beyOnd FILE Sharing) 
• 2006-2008: EU Project MULTIKNOWLEDGE (FP6-IST-2004-027106)
• 2007: Project SOP (Service-Oriented Peers) funded by NATO C3 Agency (NC3A)
• 2005-2007: Regional Project STIL 
• 2003-2006: National Project FIRB Web Minds 
• 2003-2004: IBM Project Grid architectures for QoS aware content distribution in the University community (IBM Faculty Award)
• 2002: National Project COFIN Iside