Biography sketch

I come from Palmi, Calabria (Southern Italy).

In 2006, I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Calabria in Italy.

In 2010, I completed a Master of Science at the University of Calabria, with the maximum final score.

In the same year, I was admitted to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Calabria. Within my PhD study course, I conducted my research at the School of Computing and Mathematics of Plymouth University in the UK (Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems) where I focused on aspects several of computer science regarding different fields, from parallel computing to simulation of complex systems, from genetic algorithms to computer graphics.

On 12 December 2013, I was awarded my Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Calabria, by defending my Thesis entitled "Parallel and evolutionary applications to Cellular Automata models for mitigation of lava flow invasions".

In 2014, my doctoral thesis was awarded as the best italian PhD thesis in Modeling, Simulation and Virtual Reality.

Since November 2013, I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Calabria and my main research interests focus on modelling and simulation, cellular automata, high performance computing and evolutionary computation.