Gabriele Andrea Lugli is an Assistant Professor of
Microbiology at the University of Parma in Italy. He graduated from the
University of Parma in 2010 and received a Master’s degree in Industrial
Biotechnology in 2013. Then, he received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology in 2017 and
carried out his postdoctoral research work at the Department of Chemistry, Life
Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Parma in Italy.
He is an Associate Editor of BMC Microbiology, Microorganisms, and Microbiome
Research Reports. He is a member of the Microbiome Research Hub, an
interdepartmental center of the University of Parma, and also a member of the
Computational Microbiology Unit of the Probiogenomics Lab in Parma. His
research interests include microbial genomics, metagenomics, gut microbiota,
bifidobacteria, and bacteriophages, focusing on computational microbiology
applied to complex microbial communities. He has explored the functionality of the
microbiome in terms of microbe–host interactions in humans and other mammals
and contributed to the development of metagenomic tools for the profiling of
bacterial communities.
Roberto Alfieri graduated in Physics in 1985 from the
Department of Physics of the University of Parma. He served as a Graduate
Technician at the Department of Physics, responsible for the Advanced Computing
Laboratory (LCA) of the Department from 1986 to 2001, and as a University
Researcher INF/01 (Computer Science) from 2001 to 2023. His research interests
have concerned high-performance computing within the grid and cloud computing
infrastructures within national and European projects such as EuropeanGridInitiative
(EGI), INFNGRID, Aurora-Science, SUMA, COKA, COSA, and, recently, INDIGO
Data-cloud. Currently, he collaborates with the 'Networks Unit' group of the
SMFI Department of the university. Within the group, he deals with the
computational aspects of the calculation of network quality indicators and
their dynamics through the computer simulation of the removal of ties. Since
2002 he has been associated with INFN and belongs to the INFN-related group of
Parma. In INFN from 2007 to 2022, he was a member of the National Commission
for Computing and Networks (CCR). From 2016 to 2023 he coordinated the
designated Scientific Committee (DR 722/2016) for scientific computing at the
university. Since 2021 he has participated in the organization and teaching for
the participation of UniPR in the Cyberchallenge project.
