Francesco Pinna

Francesco Pinna is the Director of Technology at the Istituto Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, National Research Council (OVI-CNR), based in Florence. Within the H2IOSC (Humanities and Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud) project, he is responsible for Activity 6.2, entitled “DARIAH Services Development: AEON – DARIAH Service Oriented Infrastructure” under Work Package 6, “Resources Accessibility: Servification, Virtualisation, Remotisation”. In this role, he oversees the second tender for the development of AEON, the service-oriented platform for DARIAH-IT. As Technical Officer for Service Development and Integration at DARIAH-IT, his main responsibilities include the coordination of service development and integration, collaboration with project partners, project management, the promotion of activities, and the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes. Before this, he gained substantial experience in research and development at Frigel Firenze S.p.A. as an R&D physicist, working on numerical modelling, data analysis, database management, and full-stack software development using various programming languages, including Python and JavaScript. In addition, he served as a Software Analyst at Ergon Research S.R.L., a university spin-off, where he contributed primarily to the development of numerical analysis applications and process management, mainly using Python, Fortran, and Docker. Francesco Pinna holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Florence (2012), with a focus on complex analysis and analytic number theory. In addition, he obtained a Master’s degree in theoretical astrophysics, with a specialisation in general relativity and high-energy astrophysics, from the University of Florence.

CV updated on 2025-09-17.