Matteo Turilli

Matteo Turilli is an Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department at IE University, where he teaches cloud computing. He has more than 14 years of experience in research and development of cutting-edge solutions for high-performance and distributed computing. Before joining IE, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a senior scientist at its Research in Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory (RADICAL), where he led the design of RADICAL-Pilot, was principal investigator of SCALE-MS and co-principal investigator of RADICAL-Cybertools, and contributed to ExaWorks, and an Advanced Applications Engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Earlier he was a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre of the University of Oxford and chaired the European Grid Initiative's task force on the federation of clouds.

Dr. Turilli's main research interests are in parallel and distributed computing and the 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 U.S. Secretary of Energy Achievement Award as a member of the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory team, in recognition of services provided to COVID-19 therapeutics research, and the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research. He holds a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and an MA in Philosophy with a major in Logic from the University of Padua. His mission is to advance the state of the art in computing and cyberinfrastructure, and to enable scientific discovery and innovation.

Corporate Experience

Advanced Applications Engineer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA, 2021–2024
Chair of the EGI-InSPIRE Task Force on Federation of Clouds, European Grid Initiative, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012–2013
Project Manager and Consultant, Innominate Security Technologies (Berlin), Linuxcare and Poiesys (Padua), 1996–2002

Academic Experience

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, IE University, Spain, 2025–present
Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2017–2024
Research Associate, Research in Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory (RADICAL), Rutgers University, 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