I am an assistant professor at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, a joint collaboration between Tilburg University and Eindhoven Technical University. I received a PhD in Management and Information Technology from the University of Salerno in 2018. My research is on empirical software engineering, in particular, software maintenance and evolution and software testing. To this aim, I apply several techniques such as machine learning, search-based algorithms, and mining of software repositories. I serve and had served as a program committee member of various international conferences (e.g., ESEC/FSE, ASE,.ICSME, SANER, ICPC), and as referee for various international journals in the field of software engineering (e.g., TSE, EMSE, JSS) and artificial intelligence (e.g., TKDE, Neurocomputing).