Associate Professor at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy.

In 2020–2021 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Algorithms and Complexity group headed by Prof. Fabian Kuhn, at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

In 2018–2019 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Distributed Algorithms group headed by Prof. Jukka Suomela, at Aalto University, Finland.

I obtained my PhD in 2017 at GSSI under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Fraigniaud.

I am interested in several aspects of theoretical computer science, and in particular in the theory of distributed computing.

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Awards

FOCS 2019 Best Paper Award
Lower bounds for maximal matchings and maximal independent sets, with Sebastian Brandt, Juho Hirvonen, Dennis Olivetti, Mikaël Rabie, and Jukka Suomela

DISC 2023 Best Paper Award
On the Node-Averaged Complexity of Locally Checkable Problems on Trees, with Sebastian Brandt, Fabian Kuhn, Dennis Olivetti, and Gustav Schmid

Project Coordinator

FIS (Fondo Italiano per la Scienza): My project A Robust Theory of Distributed Computation was funded with 1.27 million euro by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (project duration: 2026 - 2030)

News

New manuscript: New Hardness Results for the LOCAL Model via a Simple Self-Reduction, with F. Casagrande, F. d’Amore, and D. Olivetti

I will serve as a PC member of ICALP 2026 and FOCS 2026

I have been elected as a Full Member of the EATCS Council

Our paper Distributed Quantum Advantage in Locally Checkable Labeling Problems, with F. Casagrande, F. d’Amore, M. Equi, B. Keller, H. Lievonen, D. Olivetti, G. Schmid, and J. Suomela, will appear in SODA 2026

Our paper On the Universality of Round Elimination Fixed Points,
with S. Brandt, O. Gabsdil, D. Olivetti, and J. Suomela, will appear in SODA 2026