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I received my PhD in March 2012 from the University of Brescia, Italy. My supervisor was Alfonso Gerevini, co-supervisor Alessandro Saetti.

I worked at the planning group of the University of Brescia, as a postdoctoral research fellow, till September 2012.

In October 2012 I joined the PARK research group at the University of Huddersfield, as a research fellow in areas of automated planning. I then got a Senior Lecturership in May 2016, and moved to a Readership in August 2020.

My main research interests are in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Argumentation. In particular I work on domain-independent planning, SAT-based planning, machine learning, abstract argumentation, portfolio approaches, heuristic search, genetic algorithms, and automatic algorithm configuration. I am active in the field of AI Planning applications to Urban Traffic Control -- in fact, I am an UKRI Future Leaders Fellow working on Autonomic Urban Traffic Control systems.

I am also interested in the fields of innovative applications of AI in Medicine, and Computational Creativity.

For more up to date info, please check my website.

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I am happy to supervise Ph.D. students willing to research in AI Planning, particulary in learning approaches for improving planning performance, and reformulation.