SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
HONORS & GRANTS
O ERC Starting Grant 2011, approximately 1.1 million euros.
O Letter of Commendation of the Rector of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2011.
O Best Paper Award at STOC, 2010.
O Marie-Curie Doctoral Fellowship, 2002.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER
O Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), 2012.
O ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2012.
O European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2011.
O International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX), 2011.
O International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 2011.
O Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), 2010.
O International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC), 2010.


SPEAKER AT ADVANCED SCHOOLS
O Spring School on Fixed Parameter and Exact Algorithms (AGAPE), Lozari (France), 2009.


TALKS AT WORKSHOPS
O DIMACS/Princeton Approximation Algorithms Workshop, Princeton (USA), 2011.
O Bellairs Approximation Algorithms Workshop, Holetown (Barbados), 2011.
O Exact Complexity of NP-Hard Problems, Dagstuhl (Germany), 2010.
O Flexible Network Design, Dagstuhl (Germany), 2010.
O International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chicago (USA), 2009.
O Algorithms and Data Structures, Bertinoro (Italy), 2009.
O International Network Optimization Conference, Pisa (Italy), 2009.
O Flexible Network Design, Warwick (Great Britain), 2008.
O Workshop on Network Design, Dortmund (Germany), 2007.
O Flexible Network Design, Bertinoro (Italy), 2006.
O Recent Advances in Approximation Algorithms, Kolkata (India), 2006.
O Combinatorial Optimization Workshop, Aussois (France), 2005.
O Algorithms and Data Structures, Bertinoro (Italy), 2005.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
O Visitor at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw (Poland), February 2011.
O Invited Professor at the Ècole Polytechnique Fèdèrale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland), July-August 2009.
O Invited Professor at the Ècole Polytechnique Fèdèrale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland), June 2008.
O Visitor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo (Canada), March 2008.
O Assistant  Professor at the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome (Italy), since November 2007.
O Post-doc at the Technische Universität, Berlin (Germany), January 2007-October 2007.
O Post-doc at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome (Italy), November 2004-October 2007.
O Visiting Researcher at the Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen (Norway), May 2006-June 2006.
O Post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken (Germany), April 2004-October 2004.


EDUCATION
p
 Visiting student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken (Germany), December 2002, April 2003-June 2003. Supervisor: Prof. Friedrich Eisenbrand.
p
 Marie-Curie Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken (Germany), March 2002-November 2002. Supervisor: Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn.
p
 Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome (Italy), November 2001-May  2004. Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe F. Italiano. Thesis title: "Exact Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems".
p
 Master Degree in Software Engineering  with 100/100 Summa cum Laude, at the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome (Italy), October 1995-July 2000.


REFEREEING
p International Projects: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
p International Journals: Journal of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Algorithmica, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Mathematical Programming, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, ACTA Informatica, Information Processing Letters, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics.
p International Conferences: Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX), International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC), European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Sciece (FSTTCS), International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO), International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IWPEC), Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM), Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA), International Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA), Workshop on Frequency Assignment Problems in Wireless Networks (WFAP), International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG).


SOMETHING ABOUT ME ON ITALIAN NEWPAPERS
p Corriere della Sera 15-09-2011   
p Sole 24 Ore 03-08-2011
p Sole 24 Ore 04-08-2010
p Corriere della Sera 29-03-2010   



updated  28/10/2011