Alessandro Di Stefano
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI) - University of Catania
I was born in Catania, Italy, in 1985. I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI) at University of Catania, Italy, respectively in 2009 and 2012. I was awarded my PhD in Systems Engineering following a successful viva in December 2015 at DIEEI under the guidance of Prof. Aurelio La Corte, with a thesis entitled: "Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Behaviours on Multilayer Networks". During the PhD, I attended several schools and conferences on complex systems and I made various internships at Computer Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Dr. Pietro Liò, Senior Reader in Computational Biology, both in 2014 and 2015, with whom I have been collaborating since 2012. Currently, I work as post-doctoral researcher at DIEEI, University of Catania and, moreover, I collaborate also with other Universities in Europe, such as Teesside University (UK), with Dr. Claudio Angione, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. I have an interdisciplinary approach to research and my current research interests include evolutionary game theory, multilayer networks, human cooperation, social behaviors, homophily, complex systems, complex networks, network science, healthcare, epidemics, Big Data, ICT and bio-inspired algorithms.