Short bio

With a background as a Lawyer, Law Teacher, and Researcher in the Philosophy of Law, fascinated by mathematical logic, which I met due to my philosophy studies in law school, I decided to pursue a career in Computer Science, believing information technology is taking over every aspect of society and every research field.

As a Ph.D. candidate in CS, under the supervision of Prof. Giancarlo Guizzard, Enrico Franconi, and Tiago Prince Sales, I am glad to work with a team of high-level researchers at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Unibz) and the University of Twente (UT), researching in Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Ontology Engineering, and applications to the safety and security domains.

Main Research Areas

My research employs an ontology-driven approach to security modeling. I propose a general theory of prevention based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) to ground an ontology of security. These two ontological theories have been applied to analyze and redesign artifacts. I develop well-founded semantic solutions understandable, interpretable, and interoperable by humans and machines.