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INSTITUTIONS / RESPONSIBILITY AND SERVICE

Public knowledge.
Shared responsibility.

Academic life is also collective work: organising, representing, assessing, and educating. In my career, research has intertwined with university appointments, public institutions, scientific networks, training for public- and private-sector audiences, and military service. Commitment to institutions is the true “third mission.”

Institutions shape the conditions in which knowledge, technology, and society meet.

My institutional contributions take different forms: university governance, education policy, scientific assessment, international cooperation, and the transfer of knowledge to public administration.

These roles are not separate from research; they are contexts where scientific and technical expertise can support responsibility, quality, and public capacity.

UNIVERSITY

Quality, teaching, community

Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; vice-chair of the Department of Mathematics and Physics joint student–staff committee, representative on the departmental executive board, university elector, and delegate for managing departmental teaching spaces. Service on degree-programme and doctoral boards, admissions and assessment committees, and research and teaching coordination. He also serves as a supervisor of doctoral candidates in the PhD Programme in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Applications.

EDUCATION POLICY

Computer science in the National Guidelines

Member of the subcommittees for scientific and technological disciplines at Italy’s Ministry of Education and Merit, tasked with revising the National Guidelines. Coordination of the computer science work and contribution to defining the new National Guidelines for schools.

ASSESSMENT AND QUALITY

Expertise for sound decisions

Assessment and review roles for research, education, and academic quality programmes, including international settings and higher-education accreditation panels.

SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

Networks across borders

Director of the ECMS International Doctoral School and Past President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation, serving on its Board and as editor. Member of the Management Committee of COST Action CA25140, “Moving Data for Europe,” representing Italy.

Editorial and conference service →

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Digital capacity and government

Regional coordination in a national programme for e-government competence centres; today, teaching and scientific coordination in education for the Italian National School of Administration.

INNOVATION AND PROFESSIONS

Connections with practice

Vice-chair of the C3I Commission of the Engineers’ Association of Caserta, participation in professional innovation networks, and leadership of an academic spin-off focused on museum technologies.

A PERSONAL THREAD

Service as a
lived practice.

Before my academic career, I served as an officer in the Italian Air Force.

From 2000 to 2001, as a Second Lieutenant, I served as an officer in the Defence Section at Capodichino Air Base. Responsibilities included personnel management, contributing to air-base security, command duties, and developing and maintaining information tools for the office. Today I serve as an officer in the Italian Reserve Forces.

The experience left a lasting attention to dependability, organisation, role-based responsibility, and the value of service.

A JOURNEY ACROSS SETTINGS

2000—01

Italian Air Force

Defence Section officer; operational and organisational responsibilities.

2002—03

E-government and regional coordination

Campania coordinator for a Regional Competence Centre promoted by FORMEZ and the Department for Innovation and Technologies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

2010—now

University governance

Representative of university researchers on the departmental executive board, coordinator of the Web Commission, and member of the Orientation Commission (2010–2013); departmental delegate for the university website (2013–2016); vice-chair of the joint student–staff committee since 2020, alongside other departmental governance and committee roles.

2015—now

Scientific networks and representation

National Management Committee Substitute in COST Action IC1404 (2015–2018); President of ECMS (2021–2025) and Director of the International Doctoral School (since 2024). Since 2023, head of the University of Campania unit under the CINI–AGCOM agreement; representation in the CINI Working Group “Software and Systems Quality” and the CINI Laboratory “Informatica e scuola” (“Informatics and School”). Since 2026, Management Committee Member in COST Action CA25140.

2024—now

Training and education policy

Contribution to computer science in the new National Guidelines for schools and training for public-administration leaders.

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