He got his degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in 1999. In November 2002 he got a PhD in Electronical Engineering at Second University of Naples. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the analysis and design of High Performance System Architectures and on methodologies and techniques for Distributed Software development, Security Evaluation and Enforcement in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing. He participates to a lot of program and steering committees of international conferences and acted as Chair, Co-Chair and general Chairs in Conferences and Workshops. He acted as responsible for regional and national projects, and acted as Task leader in Fp7 projects. He is Project Coordinator of FP7 SPECS Project (http://www.specs-project.eu/).