Nicola is a post-doc at the university of Modena. He got his M.Sc and Ph.D in Computer Engineering at UNIMORE, however, he did most of his research activity in different institutions such as Univ. of Groningen (NL) for his M.Sc thesis, Univ. of New Brunswick (CAN) as a research internship and Edinburgh Napier Uni. (UK) for his Ph.D Thesis. His main research interests are Bio-inspired AI, Multi-Agent and Self-Organizing Systems, but also languages, architectures and everything else related to GPUs.