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Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae

A summary. The full CV, with the complete list of publications, talks and service, is available as a PDF.

Appointments

  • 2021 – now
    Associate Professor
    Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
  • 2021 – 2026
    Associate Researcher
    Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI-CNR), Rome
  • 2020 – 2021
    Research Fellow
    IASI-CNR, Rome
  • 2013 – 2019
    Maître de conférences
    LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
  • 2012 – 2013
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    LIPN, Université Paris 13
  • 2011 – 2012
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Bologna
  • 2009 – 2012
    Consultant
    Ferrovie dello Stato, Rome
  • 2007 – 2008
    Consultant
    Ferrari S.p.A., Maranello

Education

  • 2017
    Habilitation à diriger des recherches
    Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
    Reformulations and Decompositions of Mixed Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programs
  • 2008 – 2011
    Ph.D. in Control System Engineering and Operational Research
    University of Bologna
    Decomposition and reformulation of integer linear programming problems. Supervisors: Paolo Toth and Alberto Caprara
  • 2005 – 2007
    M.Sc. in Engineering and Industrial Management
    University of Bologna
  • 2001 – 2004
    B.Sc. in Engineering and Industrial Management
    University of Bologna

Qualifications

  • 2022
    Qualification as Full Professor in Operations Research
    Technical University of Denmark
  • 2019
    National qualification as Full Professor in Operations Research
    Italian Ministry of University and Research
  • 2017
    Qualification as Professeur des universités
    France — sections 26 (applied mathematics) and 27 (computer science)

Editorial and scientific service

  • 2018 – now
    Associate Editor
    Omega — The International Journal of Management Science
  • 2026
    Program Committee Chair and local organizer
    European Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (EUROMIP), Rome
  • 2018 – 2020
    Guest Editor
    Discrete Applied Mathematics — special issue on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
  • 2017 – 2019
    Guest Editor
    Annals of Operations Research — special issue on Recent Advances in Decomposition Methods for Hard Optimization Problems
  • 2018 – 2020
    Local organization committee
    CTW 2018 (Paris), SPOC 2018 (Paris), CTW 2020
  • 2009 – now
    Referee
    Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, EJOR and many others

Awards and memberships

  • 2014 – 2021
    Prime d'encadrement doctoral et de recherche (PEDR)
    French national research and supervision award
  • 2014
    Prix Fondation Dauphine de la Publication
    Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
  • Current
    Member
    Mathematical Optimization Society

Grants and projects

  • 2025
    Towards EXplainable BIlevel Learning
    Sapienza University of Rome · co-PI
  • 2024
    Proactive Anomaly Network Defense and optimization Analysis (PANDA)
    Sapienza University of Rome · PI
  • 2023 – now
    Rail Transportation — Centro Nazionale 4, Spoke 4
    PNRR · co-PI
  • 2023
    SEEDS: Sustainable Ecosystems in Evolving Digital Societies
    Sapienza University of Rome · member
  • 2021
    Optimal spread-containment policies to protect social networks
    SEED PNR · PI
  • 2017 – 2018
    Rich Graph Coloring Problems with applications to resource allocation
    PGMO · PI
  • 2016 – 2017
    Efficient Quadratic Programming Exact Algorithms mixing Relaxations
    CNRS, PEPS JCJC · PI
  • 2014 – 2017
    QPLIB2014: a Library of Quadratic Programming Instances
    PGMO · PI
  • 2014 – 2017
    Efficient exact algorithms for Graph Partitioning Problems
    PGMO · PI

Industrial collaborations

  • 2020 – 2022
    Huawei, Paris
    Industrial doctoral contract — network optimization, interdiction and robustness
  • 2017 – 2019
    Orange, Paris
    Industrial doctoral contract — optimization for next-generation telecommunication networks
  • 2015 – 2017
    DecisionBrain, Paris
    Industrial doctoral contract — production planning and scheduling
  • 2010 – 2012
    Ferrovie dello Stato
    Timetabling optimization software