Paolo is a senior researcher in computer science at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Pisa, Italy. Since January 2009, Paolo has been serving as the Chief Technology Officer at OpenAIRE AMKE. In this capacity, he plays a critical role in vision-making, technical roadmapping, and coordinating the OpenAIRE portfolio of Open Science services, above all the OpenAIRE Graph. He also ensures these services are integrated, aligned, and capable of collaborating with global scholarly communication service providers, European research infrastructures and einfratructures, and the European Open Science Cloud. As part of these activities, he has played a coordination role in several H2020 projects, including OSTrails, FAIRCORE4EOSC, EOSC-Beyond, EOSC-Future, EOSC-Enhance, OpenAIRE-Nexus, OpenAIRE-Connect, OpenAIRE-Advance, OpenAIRE2020, and OpenAIREplus.

Paolo’s work is instrumental in promoting collaborative research and advancing open science globally. His research interests focus on research and scholarly communication infrastructures, with an emphasis on scholarly knowledge graphs and technologies that facilitate open science publishing across various disciplines.