Tommaso Mazza

I obtained a MSc (2003) in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Calabria and a PhD (2008) in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Catanzaro. During my PhD I visited COSBI and Microsoft Research Cambridge where I worked on Cyto-Sim and on some parallelization strategies for stochastic simulation of reactive systems. In 2007, I joined the Bioinformatics Italian Society (B.IT.S.).

I joined Microsoft Research-Unitn COSBI in January 2008 where I dealt with parallel stochastic simulation of biological systems, biological data storing and handling, design of high performance software solutions for systems biology. Since October 2010 till July 2011, I worked in the Laboratory of Translational Genomics at CIBIO where I was involved in the job of structuring AURA: the Atlas of UTR Regulatory Activity. Since July 2011, I hold the position of researcher at Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (FG) and CSS-Mendel (Rome), Italy, where I lead the Bioinformatics unit.

I hold the position of TCSIM vice chair for Europe. I am associate editor of Briefings in Bioinformatics and member of IEEE Computer Society. I am currently managing a special issue of the IEEE/ACM Transaction of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (High performance systems biology), a special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing (Parallel applications and tools for e-Science) and a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Parallel and distributed services for systems biology: Theory and Practice). Moreover, I serve as PC members of some international conferences on bioinformatics and computational biology.