Curriculum vitae

Current position:
Associate Professor, SSD: INF/01, at "Dipartimento di Informatica" of Università di Pisa (Italy), November 2019 -

Old positions:

• Ricercatore TD-B - Assistant Professor (senior), SSD: INF/01, at "Dipartimento di Informatica" of Università di Pisa (Italy), November 2016 - November 2019
• Ricercatore TD-A - Assistant Professor (non-tenured), SSD: INF/01, at "Dipartimento di Informatica" of Università di Pisa (Italy), December 2014 - November 2016
• Researcher fellow (Titolare di assegno di ricerca), SSD: INF/01, at "Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica" of Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy) since December 2011, under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Restivo.

Education:

• PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, March 2010. Thesis: "Balancing and clustering of words: a combinatorial analysis of the Burrows & Wheeler Transform", under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Restivo;
• Laurea Specialistica in Scienze dell'informazione (Master's Degree in Information Science), Università degli Studi di Palermo, 110/110 cum laude, April 2006. Thesis: "Estensione della trasformata di Burrows & Wheeler ed applicazioni" ("An extension of the Burrows & Wheeler Transform and applications"), under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Restivo;
• Laurea in Informatica (Degree in Computer Science), Università degli Studi di Palermo, 110/110 cum laude, December 2003. Thesis: "Trasformata di Burrows-Wheeler: compressione e combinatoria delle parole" ("The Burrows & Wheeler Transform: Compression and Combinatorics on Words"), under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Restivo;

International Schools:

• Certificate of attendance to the International school on mathematics "Guido Stampacchia" on "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications", help in "Centro della cultura scientifica Ettore Majorana", Erice (Trapani), Italy, September 8-16, 2008;
• Proficiency certificate to the "Lipari International Summer School" on "Algorithms: Science and Engineering", held in Lipari Island, Italy, July 13-26, 2008;
• Proficiency certificate to the IV International School of Biology, Computation and Information, held in AREA Science Park - Basovizza (Trieste), Italy, July 02-06, 2007;
• Proficiency certificate to the First Lipari International Summer School on BioInformatics and Computational Biology on "Advances Computational Proteomics: Structure, Imaging and Control", held in Lipari Island (Messina), Italy, June 16-23, 2007.

Best paper:

• Best paper - BIOINFORMATICS/BIOSTEC 2022 (the 13th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms): "Veronica Guerrini, Felipe A. Louza and Giovanna Rosone (2022). Lossy Compressor Preserving Variant Calling through Extended BWT".
• Best paper - HiTSeq 2012 (Conference on High Throughput Sequencing Methods & Applications - Satellite of ISMB 2012): "Cox AJ, Bauer MJ, Jakobi T, Rosone G (2012). Large-scale compression of genomic sequence databases with the Burrows- Wheeler transform. Bioinformatics".

Period abroad:

• Illumina Cambridge Limited, Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1XL, UK (22/05/2012 - 10/08/2012);
• Illumina Cambridge Limited, Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1XL, UK. (14/06/2010 - 10/09/2010).