I was born in Bologna on September 23, 1976.

I got my High-School Degree at the "Liceo Scientifico A. Righi" of Bologna in 1995 and I obtained the Master Degree in Electronical Engineering at the Alma Mater Studiorum, the University of Bologna (Italy), in February 2002, with a thesis on "Attribute-Certificate based Privilege Management in Mobile Agent Systems".

Since March 2002, I've been working at the DSAW - (Direzione e Sviluppo delle Attività Web) of the University of Bologna, focusing on Web Technologies and Storing Data Structures (DataBase and Active Directory). Here, I've been exploiting the Microsoft .Net technologies, including C# language.
Currently I am the Quality Manager for the Technology Division.

In July 2002, I obtained the pass certificate for practise the free engineer profession, getting through the Engineering State Examination.

Currently I am a PhD student at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. I started my PhD in January 2003 and my advisors are professors Maurelio Boari, Antonio Corradi and Rebecca Montanari.