I have been a PhD student at IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies from 2005 to 2008, when I took my PhD. My PhD thesis, "Tools and Models for High Level Parallel and Grid Programming", focused on the definition of approaches for programming distributed computing platform by means of high level solutions.
Currently, I am a Computer Science researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (http://www.cnr.it), working at High Performance Computing Laboratory (http://hpc.isti.cnr.it) within the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" (http://www.isti.cnr.it). If you want to know more about me, please take a chance to visit my personal homepage (http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/~dazzi).
-- Patrizio