- Awards: Former PhD student Francesco Masillo won the 2025 Best Italian PhD thesis in Theoretical Computer Science; another participant, Francesca Ugazio, won the Best Italian Master thesis in Theoretical Computer Science
- Publications: Two papers published in the Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th birthday, 'A Survey of the Bijective Burrows-Wheeler Transform' and 'BWT for String Collections'
- Conferences: Invited to speak at the first edition of the Colloquium on Combinatorics and Life Sciences, Lyon, France; Guest editing a Topical Collection of the journal Theory of Computing Systems, with the title 'Advances on String Processing and Information Retrieval'
Research Experience
- Work Experience: Research assistant at ETH Zurich, research assistant and later postdoc at Bielefeld University, postdoc at Salerno University (with a Marie Curie IEF fellowship)
- Visiting Scholar: Rényi Institute, Budapest (Hungary); University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa); South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), Cape Town (South Africa)
Education
- Degrees: Diplom Mathematik from Freie Universität Berlin; PhD in Computer Science from Bielefeld University
- Advisor: Sebastian Böcker (now in Jena, Germany)
- Time: Not explicitly provided
- Specialization: Mathematics and Computer Science
Background
- Research Interests: Text indexes, primarily on different aspects of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT), but also on suffix trees and suffix arrays
- Professional Field: Member of the Algorithmic Bioinformatics and Natural Computing Group and the Algorithms Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona
- Brief Introduction: Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy, working there since November 2011.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Organizes weekly group seminars (Monday meetings)