Curriculum Vitae
A summary of my academic career is below. Publications are listed separately on the Publications page. For the complete, citable document — including the full publication list — download the PDF version.
Professional Experience
- 09/2026 – present
MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher, Venice School of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- 09/2024 – 08/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- 09/2023 – 08/2024
ATER (Temporary Teacher & Researcher), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
- 09/2021 – 08/2023
Teaching Assistant, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
- 09/2019 – 08/2020
Italian Ministry of Research Fellow, Traffic flow forecasting with neural networks, CRS4, Italy
- 10/2019 – 11/2019
Master's Internship, X-ray pulsar signal recognition, Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari, Italy
- 10/2018 – 06/2019
Erasmus+, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași, Romania
Education
- Dec 2023
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PhD in Computer Science, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
Advisor: Prof. Roberto Wolfler Calvo - Feb 2020
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MS in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, Università di Cagliari, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Greco - Sept 2017
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BS in Mathematics, Università di Cagliari, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Daniela Lera
Awards, Fellowships, & Grants
- 2026
Postdoctoral Fellowship — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Commission
- 2020
Merit-Based Graduation Fellowship — "Migliori Laureati", funded by University of Cagliari
- 2019
Research Fellowship — "Cagliari 2020" Project, CRS4, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research
- 2017
Erasmus+ Mobility Fellowship (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza), funded by the European Commission and the University of Cagliari
Presentations
Seminars
- March 2026
Second lecture on extended formulations: projections (internal talk), CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- March 2026
A horizon tour of box-total dual integrality (invited talk), École Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium
- September 2025
Hardness and Structure in Network Optimization on Unrooted Binary Trees (internal talk), CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- April 2025
Third lecture on matroids: cycles and representability (internal lecture), CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- February 2025
First lecture on matroids: introduction (internal lecture), CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- November 2024
Hard problems on box-TDI polyhedra (invited talk), Séminaire Parisien de Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
- November 2024
Hard problems on box-TDI polyhedra (internal talk), CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- March 2024
Box-Total Dual Integrality of the Perfect Matching Polytope (invited talk), LAMSADE Seminar, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Conferences
- July 2026
On the approximability of the balanced minimum evolution problem, IFORS 2026, University of Vienna, Austria
- April 2026
On the complexity of degree-constrained network design problems, INOC 2026, HEC Liège, Belgium
- January 2026
On the approximability of the balanced minimum evolution problem, ORBEL 2026, KU Leuven, Belgium
- January 2025
On strong integrality properties of the perfect matching polytope, ORBEL 2025, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- July 2024
On the box-total dual integrality of the perfect matching polytope, EURO 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark
- January 2024
Box-total dual integrality of the perfect matching polytope, ROADEF 2024, Amiens, France
- June 2023
On the box-total dual integrality of the matching polytope, JPOC13, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- January 2023
Two hard problems in box-totally dual integral polyhedra, ROADEF 2023, Rennes, France
- July 2022
Hard problems in box-TDI polyhedra, EURO 2022, Espoo, Finland
- June 2021
Recognizing box-TDI polyhedra is co-NP-complete, JPOC12, Paris, France
Teaching Experience
- AY 2026/27
Lecturer, Prescriptive Analytics (Management track, M2), English, 30 hours, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
- AYs 2025/26 – 2024/25
Lecturer, Production and Operations Management (Management track, L3), English, 15 hours, Université Catholique de Louvain
- AY 2023/24
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Teaching Assistant, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord – Institut Galilée, French:
- C Programming (PAM2, L0), 40 hours
- C Programming 1 (Mathematics track, L1), 30 hours
- C Programming 2 (Computer Science track, L1), 50 hours
- Computer Science 1 (Physical Chemistry track, L1), 18 hours
- Computer Science 2 (Physical Chemistry track, L1), 22 hours
- Object-Oriented Programming (Computer Science track, L2), 44 hours
- AYs 2022/23 – 2021/22
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Teaching Assistant, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) de Villetaneuse, French:
- Software Quality (BUT1), 14 hours
- Human-Computer Interaction (BUT1), 42 hours
Languages
- Italian — Native
- English — Writing: advanced, Speaking: advanced, Listening: advanced
- French — Writing: advanced, Speaking: advanced, Listening: advanced
Activities
Academic Services
- September 2026
International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science 2026 (ODS 2026) — Member of the local organizing committee
- 2026
Peer reviewer for Discrete Mathematics, Elsevier
- AY 2025/26
Organizer, Extended Formulations lecture group — CORE internal optimization reading group (monthly, March–June). Internal lecturers: F. Pisanu, Mathieu Van Vyve, Quentin Lété, Nicolas Stevens
- AY 2024/25
Organizer, Matroid Theory lecture group — CORE internal optimization reading group (monthly, February–June). Internal lecturers: F. Pisanu, Mathieu Van Vyve. External lecturer: Emiliano Lancini (Université Paris Dauphine)
- AYs 2025/26 – 2024/25
Co-organizer (with Quentin Lété), Operations Research Seminar Series for the CORE department — 22 speakers invited in AY 24/25, 16 scheduled for AY 25/26