Nov 2009 - Present: Postdoc researcher at INRIA, Lille Nord Europe, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Topics: Combinatorial Optimization, Bioinformatics.

Jun 2008 - Oct 2009: Postdoc researcher at Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX), École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. Topics: Clustering, Distance Geometry Problem, Optimization.

Oct 2007 - May 2008: Postdoc researcher at Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Topics: Data mining, Optimization.

Jan 2007 - Jun 2007: Postdoc researcher at Center for Applied Optimization (CAO), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Topics: Meta-Heuristics for Global Optimization, Protein Folding.

Sep 2006 - Oct 2006: Research activity at Department of Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy. Project title: "Development of Software for Nonlinear Optimization".

Mar 2003 - Jan 2004: Research activity at Giovanni Pascale Foundation (Institute for studying and curing cancer diseases), Naples, Italy. Project title: "Development of a Web-Learning System for Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mathematics and Medicine".

Jan 2003 - Dec 2003: Research activity at Institute of Food Science (ISA-CNR), Avellino, Italy. Project title: "Computational Experiences in Protein Folding Simulations".

Nov 2001 - Dec 2005: Ph.D. in Computational Biology, Second University of Naples. Thesis title: "Geometric Aspects in the Simulation of Protein Folding Processes".

Jun 2001 - Sep 2001: Stage at Center of Research on Parallel Computing and Supercomputers (CPS-CNR), nowadays Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR, Naples branch).

Sep 1997 - Oct 2001: Degree in Mathematical Sciences (110/110 cum laude), Second University of Naples. Thesis title: "Quadratic Optimization: Algorithms and Software for Dense Problems".