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 Seminari della Primavera dell'Informatica Teorica on March 26, 2025 (online)

I will give an invited talk at the Workshop on Words and Subwords in May 2025 in Liège, Belgium

Together with Giulia Bernardini and Raffaella Rizzi, I am organizing the Summer School of CPM 2025.

Together with Golnaz Badkobeh and Simon Puglisi, I am editing a Special Issue on Current Trends in Sequences in Acta Informatica, Springer.

Recent Activity

Together with Golnaz Badkobeh and Simon Puglisi, I organized Sequences in London in February 2025 at City, University of London.

I gave an invited talk at the 2nd Lyndex meeting in December 2024 in Caen, France.

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

Sequences, 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)

The list of my publications is here.

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