Research

Main interests

• Operations research
• Mathematical programming
• Combinatorial optimization
• Routing problems under uncertainty
• Exact algorithms
• Meta-heuristics
• Operations research in education
• Enumeration problems

Member of research groups

• [April 2023 – present] UrobORosDEI group at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy.
• [April 2023 – March 2025] Group at the Department of Mechanical, Energy, and Management Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy.
• [November 2017 – March 2023] CALIPSO-UniVR group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy. Director: Prof. Romeo Rizzi
• [May 2016 – October 2017] MAO@DII – Models and Algorithms for Optimization group at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy. Director: Prof. Renata Mansini

Visitings

• [April 2023 – March 2025] Visiting researcher at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Roberti
• [October 06, 2019 – December 19, 2019] Visiting researcher at Kanda Lab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. Enumeration problems and listing algorithms. Supervisor: Prof. Takeaki Uno
• [May 19, 2019 – June 20, 2019] Visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d’Informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France. Bioinformatics, string algorithms, permutation patterns and graphs. Supervisors: Prof. Stéphane Vialette (LIGM) and Prof. Laurent Bulteau (CNRS)
• [September 28, 2015 – January 26, 2016] Master’s thesis intern at the Université Laval, Québec City, Canada. Vehicle routing problems and meta-heuristics. Supervisors: Prof. Jean-François Côté (Université Laval) and Prof. Renata Mansini (University of Brescia)