He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bologna respectively in 2001 and in 2005. His current research interests include distributed systems, computer networks, complex networks, mobile communications, multimedia, hybrid and distributed simulation. He is in the editorial board of the Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT) journal, published by Elsevier, and of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, published by Springer.