Academic Qualification

• February 2002 PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, from Department of Mathematics "Renato Caccioppoli" , University of Naples "Federico II".
• December 1996 Advanced Degree in Tecnologie avanzate dell'Informazione e della Comunicazione, IIASS, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno).
• December 1994 University Degree (Laurea) in Mathematics form Department of Mathematics "Renato Caccioppoli" , University of Naples "Federico II".

Current and previous positions

2024-now: Head of the Naples operative branch of IAC-CNR.

2020-now: Research Director at IAC-CNR.

2019: Senior Researcher at IAC-CNR.

2001-2019: Researcher at IAC-CNR<./a>

2013: National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor for Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Statistics. ( ASN2012 - 01/A03). Validità Abilitazione: dal 30/12/2013 al 30/12/2022.

2014: National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor for Statistics. ( ASN2013 - 13/D1). Validità Abilitazione: dal 26/11/2014 al 26/11/2023.

2018: National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor for Molecular Biology. ( ASN2016-2018 -quinto quadrimestre - 05/E2). Validità Abilitazione: dal 01/08/2018 al 01/08/2027.

Teaching Activities

• 2022/2023 and 2023/2024: Statistica Applicata, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Master degree in Biological Science.
• 2020-now: Member of the Faculty Board of the Graduate Doctorate program in Computational and Quantitative Biology , University of Naples Federico II.
• 2016/2017 and 2017/2018: Analisi statistica per l'ambiente, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Master degree in Environmental Science.
• 2014/2015 and 2015/2016: Analisi multivariata dei dati ambientali, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Master degree in Environmental Science.
• 2013: Bioinformatica e analisi di dati complessi derivati da esperimenti di sequenziamento massivo, Napoli, Stazione Zologica e Università degli Studi di Napoli, 27-31/5/2013.
• 2012: Statistica inferenziale. Master di 2° livello RISS (Ricerca e Innovazione in Scienze della Salute), Università degli Studi di Salerno. Ottobre-Novembre 2012.
• 2012: Chip-seq: methods and applications in epigenomic studies (review + practical). EMBO course in Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis. Napoli, Stazione Zoologica, 15/5/2012.
• 2011: Statistica di base applicata all’analisi di dati biologici: stima dei parametri e test di Ipotesi statistiche, Dottorato di ricerca in Biologia dei Sistemi, Università degli Studi di Salerno.
• 2003/4; 2004/5; 2005/6; 2006/7: 2007/08: Applicazioni delle Wavelets, Università della Calabria, Master degree in Electronic Engineering.
• 2008-2015: Member of the Faculty Board of the Graduate Doctorate program in Computational Biology, Second University of Naples.

Main Research Projects:

• 2022-2025: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the project P2022BLN38-Computational approaches for the integration of multi-omics data: PRIN PNRR 2022.
• 2022-2025: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the project SPOKE 8 In Silico Medicine and Omics data: PNRR Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data e Quantum Computing.
• 2021-2023: Co-Principal investigator fore IAC research unit in the Collaborative project IAC-IZSM: " Modelli di biostatistica e bioinformatica per l'elaborazione dei dati in studi di bio-monitoraggio e di correlazione ambiente – salute".
• 2020-2023: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the project MEDIA: "Metodiche Diagnistiche ad alta efficienza per il paziente osteo-articolare: MRI dedicata per imaging non invasivo pre- e post- operatorio nell'impianto di protesi e sistemi integrati di ausilio alla gestione del dato clinico/diagnistico."
• 2020-2021: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the project OliveHealth: "Identificazione delle componenti salutistiche della filiera olivicola campana> 2019-2022: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the project ADViSE: "Piattaforma Tecnologica per la lotta alle patologie Oncologiche della Regione Campania".
• 2015-2020: Co-ordinator of the IAC research unit in the HORIZON 2020/Marie Sklodowska Curie Action INnovative Life sCIence Phd Programme in South Italy — INCIPIT (INCIPIT).
• 2013-2015: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the Industrial Research Project Study for the development of a diagnostic tool to achieve personalized therapeutic strategies for type 2 diabetes by genomic and transcriptomic approaches (DIAGEN-SC).
• 2012-2018: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the Italian Flagship project Epigenomics.
• 2012-2016: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the Italian Flagship project InterOmics.
• 2012-2015: Principal investigator for the IAC research unit in the Project BIOforIU.
• 2007-2013: Principal investigator for the research unit Mathematical and Statistical Methods for genetics and proteomics, in CNR-Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Projects.
• 2008-2010: Principal investigator for research project Metodi Bayesiani di selezione delle variabili con applicazioni alla genomica, in the CNR-RTL projects.

Editorial Activities

• 2017-2018 Associate Editor of BMC BIOINFORMATICS SUPPLEMENT for BBCC2017. BMC Bioinformatics Vol 19, (Suppl. 15), 2018.
• 2016-2017 Associate Editor of BMC BIOINFORMATICS SUPPLEMENT for CIBB 2015/2016. BMC Bioinformatics Vol 19, (Suppl. 7), 2018.
• 2015-2016 Co-editor Editor of A Selection of paper from the 12th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, vol. 9874, Springer (2016)
• 2015 Co-editor Editor of Proceedings of the 12th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. ISBN 9788890643798, 2015.
• 2014 Associate Editor of BMC BIOINFORMATICS SUPPLEMENT for BITS 2014.
• 2013-2014: Editorial Board Member of The Scientific World Journal Area Bioinformatics
• 2013-2014: Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining (IJBDM)
• 2013 Associate Editor of BMC BIOINFORMATICS SUPPLEMENT for BITS 2013.
• 2010-2013 : Associate Editor of International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining (IJBDM)

Other Activities

• 2024: Member of the Scientific Committee for CIBB2024, BENEVENTO, SETTEMBRE 4-6, 2024.
• 2023: Member of the Scientific Committee for BBCC2023, NAPOLI 4-6 DICEMBRE 2023.
• 2023: MMember of the Scientific Committee for 44th ISCB Conference (Milan, 27-31 Agosto 2023).
• 2022: Member of the Scientific Committee for BBCC2022, VIRTUAL EDITION, DICEMBRE 13-15, 2022.
• 2022: Member of the Scientific Committee for ECCB2022 (21st EuropeanConference on Computational Biology), BARCELLONA, 12-21, SETTEMBRE 2022.
• 2021: Member of the Scientific Committee for BBCC2021, Virtual edition, December 1-3, 2021.
• 2021: Member of the Scientific Committee for CIBB2021, Virtual edition, November 15-17, 2021.
• 2021: Organizar of the special session "The analysis of omics data from a statistical perspective: novel methods, challenges, and applications" Wityhin the annual SIB2021 meeting. Virtual edition, September 2021.
• 2021: Member of the Program Committee for the meeting "High-Performance Computing for Life Sciences: Algorithms, Methodologies and Tools" (HPC4LifeS 2021) 30-31 Agosto 2021.
• 2021: Member of the Scientific Committee for BITS2021, Virtial edition, July 1-2, 2021.
• 2020: Member of the Scientific Committee of ECCB2020 19th European Conference on Computational Biology. Barcellona 5-9 Seprember, 2020.
• 2019: Member of the Scientific Committee of NETTAB/BBCC 2019 Joint Meeting, November 11 - 13, 2019, Fisciano (Salerno), Italy.
• 2019: Member of the Program committee member of BITS2019, 16th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Palermo, 16-18 June 2018.
• 2018: Member of the Scientific Committee of the BBCC meting 2018 , Napoli 18-21 November, 2018.
• 2018: Member of the Program committee member of BITS2018, 15th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Torino, 17-28 June 2018.
• 2018: Member of the PROGRAM COMMITTEE of ISMB 2018 conference - the flagship conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (Chicago, Illinois on July 6-10, 2018)
• 2018: Member of the PROGRAM COMMITTEE of PDP2018 (The 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing. Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018.
• 2017: Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of the BBCC meting 2017 , Napoli 18-20 December, 2017.
• 2017: Member of the Scientific Committee of NETTAB 2017 on Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era, October 16 - 18, 2017, Palermo, Italy.
• 2017: Program committee member of BITS2017, 14th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Cagliari, 5-7 July 2017.
• 2018: Member of the PROGRAM COMMITTEE of PDP2017 (The 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing. ST. PETERSBURG (Russia), March 6-8, 2017.
• 2016: Special Session Chair for the CIBB 2016, Stirling (UK) 1-3 September, 2016.
• 2016: Program committee and local promoting member del BITS2016, 13th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Salerno, 15-17 June 2016.
• 2015: General Chair of CIBB2015, Naples, 10-12 September 2015.
• 2015: Program committee member of BITS2015, Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Milan, 3-5 June 2015.
• 2015: Co-organizer of EPIGEN Chromatin Seminar - Naples, 11 May 2015.
• 2014: Co-organizar of InterOmics Tutorial Day 2014: Networks and Omic Data - Naples, 14 November 2014.
• 2014: Bioinformatics Technical Chair for the CIBB 2014, Cambridge (UK) 26-28 June, 2014.
• 2014: Program committee member of BITS2014, Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society - Rome, 26-28 February 2014.
• 2013: Co-organizar of InterOmics Tutorial day. Naples, 14 November 2013
• 2013: Co-organizer of the Special Session Data integration and analysis in Omic-Science at CIBB2013, Nice, 19-22 June 2013
• 2012: Co-organizar of Bioinformatics for Omics Science (Bio4Omics), Area di ricerca CNR, Naples, 25-26 September 2012,
• 2012: Scientific committee member of CIBB2012, Houston Texas (USA), July 12-14, 2012.
• 2012: Scientific committee member of Next Generation Sequencing: What's Next? Workshop 1 June 2012, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2011: Bioinformatics Technical Chair for the CIBB 2011, Gargnano del Garda on June 30 – July 2, 2011.
• 2010: Co-organizer of the NETTAB 2010 on Biological Wikis, November 29 - December 1, 2010, Naples, Italy.
• 2010: Scientific committee member of CIBB2010, Palermo 16-18, September 2010.
• 2009: Co-organizer of the Special Session Combining Bayesian and Machine Learning Approaches in Bioinformatics: State of Art, Applications and Future Perspectives at the CIBB09, 15-17 October 2009, Genova.
• 2008: Scientific committee member of Nettab2008, Varenna 19-21, May 2008.
• 2007-2010: Co-organizer of the series of seminars I Martedì della Bioinformatica at the Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica , University of Salerno. (2007-till now)