Matteo Turilli

Dr. Matteo’s main research interests are in parallel and distributed computing, and engineering of cyberinfrastructures, with applications in scientific domains such as biology, chemistry, and physics. He has contributed to multiple projects and publications in these fields and has received several awards and honors for his work, including the “Secretary of Energy Achievement Award” as member of the “National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory Team”, in recognition of services provided to COVID19 therapeutics research and the “2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research”. Dr. Matteo’s mission is to advance the state of the art in computing and cyberinfrastructure, and to enable scientific discovery and innovation.

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, IE University, Spain, 2025 – Present 

• Assistant Research Professor, Electric and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2017

• Research Associate, Research in Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory (RADICAL), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2013 – 2017  

• Senior Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK, 2011 – 2013

• Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK, 2010 – 2011

Academic Background

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK, 2009

• MA in Philosophy with major in Logic, University of Padua, Italy, 2003

Corporate Experience

• Advanced Applications Engineer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA, 2021 – 2024

• Chair of the EGI-InSPIRE Taskforce on Federation of Clouds, European Grid Initiative, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012 – 2013