I am full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy and member of the International Software Engineering Research Network, ISERN. I was visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, Germany and at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. 
Between 2014-2017, I founded and was coordinator of the research group in Software and Systems Engineering (SwSE) at the Faculty  Computer Science. My research focuses on Machine Learning in Software Engineering, Software amd Systems Reliability and Testing, Programming and Software Development.