Short bio:

Giovanni Felici graduated in Statistics and obtained his Master of Science in Operations Research from the University of Lancaster and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conference proceedings in the field of Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Bioinformatics. His main research activity is based at the Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, within the department of Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transportation, where he has been responsible for several years of the project Optimization, Modeling and Algorithms for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. He has been visiting scholar in several universities in Europe, Unites States and Australia. Since 2016 he is a Seconded National Expert at the Executive Agency of the European Research Council in Bruxelles, where he is supporting the selection and the monitoring of research projects under the Excellence pillar of H2020 for the panels of Computer Science and Mathematics.