I'm Head of Data Science Office at European Gravitational Observatory, since March 2018 Associate Faculty at Scuola Normale Superiore. I've been working on Data Analysis for Virgo experiment since more than 20 years.
After degree in Physics on Statistical Analysis in Astrophysics for Large Scale Structure of the Universe, I won a PhD fellowship at Physics Department in Pisa and started working for Virgo experiment. I'm expert in noise analysis and system identification, developing algorithms for data conditioning and signals detection. I leaded the noise analysis group for Virgo from 2008 to 2014, developing algorithms for data characterization and for the analysis of transient signals and working with machine learning techniques in this field.
From 2014 to 2018 I was the Scientific Coordinator on an Initial Training Network GraWIToN, addressed to the training of young scientist in Gravitational Wave research.

I'm co-chair of the Machine Learning informal group in the LIGO/Virgo collaboration and Kaggle master. I was the  main proposer  for a COST action “A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning”, which was financed by COST association. Now I'm  Cost Action 17137 chair.