Curriculum Vitae

General Data

Born on May 12, 1971 in Pisa, Italy
Italian citizenship.
I have two children: Ciro (born on 2007, January 8th) and Olivia (born on 2008, October 14th).

Education and Positions

1996: Graduation cum laude in Computer Science at Pisa University, 1996. Advisor: Prof.F.Luccio.
1997-1998: DEA Informatique Fondamentale et Applications at the University of Marne la Vallée , France.
Stage at the Atelier de BioInformatique of the University of Paris 6.
October 2000-January 2001: Visiting the Service d'Informatique Scientifique of the Institute Pasteur, Paris.
1998-2002: Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
October 2001-June 2002: ERCIM post-doc fellowship at INRIA Rhone Alpes, project HELIX.
August 2002-August 2004: Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
December 2003: Graduation cum laude in Information Technologies at Pisa University. Advisor: Prof.F.Luccio.
2004-2005: CNRS post-doc position at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris Nord of the University of Paris 13.
2005: Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
2006- : Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
November 2006-June 2007: on maternity leave.
September 2008-February 2009: on maternity leave.

Languages

Italian (mother language).
English (very good).
French (good).
Dutch (beginner).

Talks (under invitation)

February 1997: "DNA Computing: A Molecular Approach to Calculus" at the Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa.
October 1998: "A study of duplications of genes by using graphs" at LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
January 1999: "Duplicating genes and random graphs" at the Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa.
February 1999: "DNA Computing: a new computational paradigm using molecules". Invited talk at the conference of SILFS (Italian Society for Logic and Phylosophy of Science), held in Cesena, February 1999.
March 1999: "Duplicating genes and random graphs" at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
April 1999: "Grafi aleatori nello studio di duplicazioni", Domus Galilaeana, Pisa.
May 1999: "Computational power of biomolecules: an overview on experiments and results", University of Opava, Czech Republic.
November 2000: "On syntenic distance among genomes" at the Institut Garpard Monge , University of Marne la Vallée , France.
December 2000: "On syntenic distance among genomes", at LIACS , The Netherlands.
May 2001: "Calcolare con il DNA" (in italian), at the University Federico II of Napoli, Italy.
March 2002: "The syntenic distance between genomes", at the journée ALBIO, Montpellier, France.
May 2002: "Ottimizzazione di estrazione esatta di motivi strutturati in sequenze biologiche", at the SIA of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy.
October 2002: "Speeding up structured motifs extraction", at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
January 2003: "A Basis for Repeated Motifs in Pattern Discovery and Text Mining", meeting of the french program bioinformatique EPST 2002 Algorithms for Modelling and Inference Problems in Molecular Biology, Lyon, France.
February 2003: "A Basis for Repeated Motifs in Pattern Discovery and Text Mining", London Stringology day 2003 at King's college, London, United Kingdom.
September 2004: "Inferring relational motifs with a denegerate alphabet", Atelier de Bioinformatique of Paris VI University, Paris, France.
February 2005: "Inferring relational motifs with a denegerate alphabet", London Stringology day 2005 at King's college, London, United Kingdom.
February 2005: "Extraction de motifs relationnels répétés à partir d'un alphabet dégénéré", Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris Nord of Paris XIII University, Paris, France.
April 2005: "Incremental Inference of Relational Motifs with a Degenerate Alphabet", Stringology 2005 Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation, University of Haifa, Israel.
May 2005: "Motifs relationnels avec un alphabet dégénéré", at the Institut Garpard Monge , University of Marne la Vallée , France.
November 2005: "NIMBUS: an efficient filter for multiple alignments", at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisboa, Portugal.
May 2006: "Ed'Nimbus: A loosless filter for finding long multiple repetitions with edit distance", Stringology 2006 Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation, University of Haifa, Israel.
February 2008: "Speeding up the inference of multiple repeats with bounded edit distance", London Algorithmic Workshop 2008 in honour of prof.Maxime Crochemore's 60th birthday, King's College, London.
February 2008: "Lossless Filter for Multiple Repeats with Bounded Edit Distance", meeting of the FIRB project, Palermo.
June 2008: "Fast filters for Edit Distance", invited talk BioINF: teoria dell'informazione in genomica e proteomica held at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Pisa.
January 2010: "Speeding up local multiple alignments", internal PhD lunchtime Mauriana Pesaresi seminar.
June 2010: "A local alignment tool for finding multiple repeats in DNA sequences", Dagstuhl Seminar on Structure Discovery in Biology: Motifs, Networks & Phylogenies organised by Alberto Apostolico, Andreas Dress, and Laxmi Parida.
October 2011" "Long repetitions inference with indels", SPIRE Workshop on Analysis of Biological Data.