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My main job is doing research (and [[teaching]]) at the [Department of Computer
Science](http://www.cs.unibo.it) of the [University of
Bologna](http://www.unibo.it). My current and not-so current research interests
are summarized below, a list of my **[[publications]]** on available in a
[[separate_page|publications]].

# research interests

 * type theory and in particular **proof assistants** / interactive theorem
 provers. I've been one of the architect of the [Matita proof
 assistant](http://matita.cs.unibo.it), though now I'm contributing code more
 sparingly; both my master and Ph.D. [[theses|publications]] have been about
 Matita. I've also worked on distributed digital libraries of formalized
 mathematics, such as the [HELM](http://helm.cs.unibo.it) library

 * **web technologies**, in particular: type systems for typing XML trees (I'm
 currently a member of [W3C](http://www.w3.org)'s [XML Schema working
 group](http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema)) and document validation, overlapping
 markup, web collaboration (as in [[wikipedia wiki]]s) and its interaction with
 content constraints

 * **free software**, in particular software engineering applications to wide
 software repositories (the typical use case of GNU/Linux distributions) and the
 application of formal methods to them to various ends (for example for
 dependency handling)