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.  

Director of the Quantum Software Laboratory of the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma (https://www.qis.unipr.it/quantumsoftware.html).
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).

In general, my background is in parallel and distributed computing. Currently, my research activity focuses on:

• Quantum Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Internet of Things

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 IEC/ISO JTC 3 and of CEN/CENELEC JTC 22.

UNIPR’s node coordinator within CINI’s HPC-KTT Laboratory. Co-coordinator of the Focus Group on Quantum Computing.

UNIPR’s team Principal Investigator 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
• 2022-2029: 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