Office hours
Tuesday From 15:00 to 16:00
Thursday From 15:00 to 16:00
Contacts
Welcome!
My research focuses on the combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of words.
Scientific Activity
News
I was elected in the Scientific Council of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, where I currently serve as treasurer.
I will give an invited talk at the 2nd Lyndex meeting in December 2024 in Caen, France.
Together with Golnaz Badkobeh and Simon Puglisi, I organize Sequences in London in February 2025 at City, University of London.
I will give an invited talk at the Workshop on words and subwords in May 2025 in Liège, Belgium.
Recent Activity
I gave an invited talk at the 19th Mons Theoretical Computer Science Days in September 2024 in Nice, France.
I visited Hideo Bannai and his group in June 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
I gave a course in Combinatorics on Words in April 2024 at CWI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
I gave an invited talk at the Combinatorics on Words week in February 2024 at CIRM in Marseille, France.
Research Projects
APML, PRIN 2022 project 20229BCXNW (PI of local unit)
ADASCOML, PRIN 2017 project 2017K7XPAN (PI of local unit)
Journal
RAIRO-ITA, Editorial Board Member
Steering Commitees
WORDS, SPIRE (2017-2020)
Program Committees
FCT 2025, WORDS 2025, CPM 2024, AFL 2023, GandALF 2023, SPIRE 2023, WORDS 2023, CPM 2022, ICTCS 2022, JM 2022, SPIRE 2022, IWOCA 2021, SPIRE 2021, WORDS 2021, CPM 2020, ICTCS 2020, SPIRE 2020, CPM 2019, WORDS 2019, ICTCS 2018, IWOCA 2018, CPM 2017, IWOCA 2017, SPIRE 2017 (co-chair), IWOCA 2016, JM 2016
Students
2024 - 2025, Estéban Gabory (Post-doc)
2021 - 2022, Jia Gao (Post-doc)
2017 - 2020, Mickaël Postic (PhD, co-supervised with Luca Zamboni)
Past Affiliations
2017-2020: Assistant Professor, tenured - Università di Palermo, Italy
2013-2017: Assistant Professor - Università di Palermo, Italy
2016-2019: Visiting Senior Lecturer - King's College London, UK
2009-2012: Post-doc researcher - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
2005-2009: Post-doc researcher - Università di Salerno, Italy
2002-2005: Ph.D. student - Università di Palermo, Italy, and Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France