I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). I am a member of the CompBio research group.

My research focuses on developing computational approaches to improve our understanding of structural variations, particularly in repetitive regions of the genome. I recently completed a Horizon ERA fellowship on this topic (ASVA-CGR).

As secondary research interests, I also work on data structures and pangenomes.

Education

• 2020, Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Milano - Bicocca.
  Supervisors: Paola Bonizzoni, Raffaella Rizzi, and Marco Previtali

• 2016, M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Milano - Bicocca

• 2014, B.S. in Computer Science from University of Milano - Bicocca

Software

• palss, a tool for augmenting pangenome graph from unassembled long reads (WIP)
• svbench-fw, a modular and extensible framework to evaluate SV callers
• SVDSS, a tool for calling SVs from PacBio HiFi data
• pantas, a tool for quantifying AS events from spliced pangenome graphs
• ESGq, a tool for quantifying annotated AS events using event splicing graphs
• MALVA, a tool for genotyping freshly-sequenced individuals
• Shark, a tool for filtering RNA-Seq samples
• MALVIRUS, a pipeline for genotyping freshly-sequenced viral strains
• ASGAL, a tool for detecting Alternative Splicing events by mapping RNA-Seq reads to splicing graphs