Curriculum Vitae

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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

PhD in Computer Science, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
Advisor: Prof. Roberto Wolfler Calvo

Feb 2020

MS in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, Università di Cagliari, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Greco

Sept 2017

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

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

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