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Ferdinando Cicalese

Education:

 

 

2001

PhD in Computer Science, University of Salerno

 

1995

Laurea in Computer Science, University of Salerno

Academic Positions:

 

 

2006 -

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno

 

2004-2009

Leader of the research group "Combinatorial Search Algorithms in Bioinformatics"
Technische Fakultät, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

 

2001-2006

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno

Awards and  Grants:

 

 

2004

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (grant of 700 000 Euro)
prize of the Alexander von Humboldt  Foundation.

 

2001

Award for the Best Italian PhD Thesis in Theoretical Computer Science
awarded by the Italian Chapter of the EATCS.

International Symposia (Committee membership):

 

 

2011

ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES FOR SELECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND ENCODING
ICALP 2011 Workshop - Zurich, July 2011, Switzerland

 

2010

SEARCH METHODOLOGIES 2010
ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, October 2010, Germany

 

2009

SEARCH METHODOLOGIES 2009
Dagstuhl Seminar 09281, Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, July 2009, Germany

 

2008

LATIN 2008, Latin American  Theoretical Informatics Symposium
April 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

2006

CASB 2006, International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology
November  2006, Dallas,  USA

 

2001

COSSAC 2001, Combinatorics of Searching, Sorting and Coding
September 2001, Ischia, Italy

 

1996

SMI '96, Intelligent Multimedia Systems
November 1996, Ravello, Italy.

Cooperations and Participation in International Projects:

 

 

2009-10

EU-FP6 ToK HUBI: Hungarian Bioinformatics
Visiting Professor at Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary (4+2 months)

 

2007-09

DFG Project Advances in Search and Sorting
(co-investigator with Rudolf Ahlswede)

 

2004

EU-RTN  COMBSTRU: Combinatorial Structure of Intractable Problems
2-year Marie Curie fellowship (interrupted for starting my own Kovalevskaja Award funded research group).

 

2004

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) research fellowship
spent at the Institute of Bioinformatics, Bielefeld University, Germany (6 weeks)

 

2004

Visiting Researcher at Center for Biotechnology
Bielefeld University, Germany (4 months)

 

2002

ZiF Research Group General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics
ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld (October 2002 -  August 2003)

 

2000

COST Action #15 on Many Valued Logic
visiting researcher  at Vienna University of Technology, Austria (6 weeks)

 

1996

Italian National Council of Research (CNR) research fellowship
spent at Middlesex University, London, UK (8 months)

 

1993

Erasmus fellowship
spent at Middlesex University, London, UK (3 months)

 

Scientific Responsibilities:

 

 

Co-Organizer of the ZiF Cooperation Group: Search Methodologies (October 2010-October 2013).

 

Member of the scientific committee of the International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genome Research, Bielefeld University (October 2005-March 2009).

 

Member of the scientific committee of the PhD Program on Computer Science, University of Salerno (since March 2006).