Alessandro was born on March 13, 1973 at Alfonsine (Ravenna), Italy. He has been working in the research group called “aliCE” lead by Andrea Omicini since 2001 (http://www.alice.unibo.it). He got his tenured researcher position in October 2006. He got a PhD in Computer Science Engineering in 2004, with a thesis titled "Engineering Agent Societies with Coordination Artifacts and Related Infrastructures". He graduated at the Computer Science Engineering faculty of the University of Bologna in March 2000, with a thesis titled ”Modelli ed Infrastrutture di Coordinazione per l’Ingegneria dei Sistemi Software” (Coordination Models and Infrastructures for the engineering of Software Systems”). Since September 2014, he is associate professor of the same department.