He is an Assistant Professor at University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. He received a Ph.D. in Computational Engineering at the University of Lecce, Italy. He has teaching class at the Engineering Faculty in “Computing Architecture”. He is an affiliate researcher of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - CMCC. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing. During his research activities he has addressed issues related to the optimization of numerical methods for solving PDE applied to Earth System Models and to fluid dynamics models on High-End parallel architectures including heterogeneous architectures made of accelerators (GP-GPU and Intel MIC). Recently the research has been focused on the adoption of FPGAs for high performance applications. The basic aspects covered by research include finite difference, finite element and finite volume methods for PDE problems. All of these approaches present a limit of scalability for long simulation since the parallelization along the time direction is not exploited. New numerical methods, such as parareal, will enable the parallelization along the time direction and they have been taken into consideration for improving the scalability of climate models for computational architecture at exascale. Relevant activities have also been conducted for optimizing the management of huge amount of data produced by the climate models and introducing efficient approaches for the parallel I/O. In the past years he has been also principal investigator for the development of grid resource broker infrastructure for the orchestration of distributed resources in a grid computing environment; the activities included the development of scheduling algorithms, tool for monitoring the status of a computational resource, load balancing algorithms, job management (i.e. submission, tracking and control). Recently he has been also involved in the development of tools for the management of huge amount of data in a cloud environment for enhancing the cultural heritage visiting experience by the integration of digital contents with real time acquired images. He published more than 40 papers in refereed books, journal and conference proceedings on parallel, grid and cloud computing.