Stefano Cozzini has over 20 years’ experience in the area of scientific computing and HPC and data management e-infrastructures. His main professional activity is to plan and install and then efficiently maintain IT infrastructures.

He is presently director of the Research and Technology Institute of Area Science Park, where he coordinates team of more than 10 people in maintaining cutting-edge research Genomic and Epigenomic infrastructures delivering high level services for scientific institutions. S.C. has considerable experience in leading and coordinating research infrastructure projects at national and international level.

He served as Scientific Consultant for the International Organization UNESCO–ICTP, from 2003 to 2012, and UNDP/UNOPS during 2011 and 2012.

He also serves regularly as referee for international conference and scientific review and served as scientific referee and scientific advisor of several European projects. S.C. has a large teaching experience in the above areas. Over the last 20 years he has been organizer and director of more than 20 International training activities on High Performance and GRID CLOUD and Data Infrastructures all over the world. From 2014 on he contributed actively to the International Master in High Performance Computing promoted by Sissa and ICTP (http://www.mhpc.it ) where he was its first coordination till 2016.

He is also in the scientific council of the recently launched DSSC Laurea Magistrale (https://dssc.units.it/) ) where coordinates and teaching the course “Foundation of HPC”. His main research interests are in the field of High-Performance Computing applied to computational science and industrial problems and in scientific data management Infrastructure and associated tools.

In the last few years he is actively working in the area of Machine Learning to provide advanced data services on the top of computational infrastructure for heterogeneous scientific communities