Costantino Pistagna was born in Catania on 13th March, 1977. He got his graduation in Computer Science at the University of Catania on July 2003. He carried out the completion of his final thesi dealing with subjects such as parallel and distributed networking paradigms.
After graduation he hold a Ph.D. from university of Catania about peer-to-peer networking and overlay networks. He worked as consultant for important telecommunication societies in Italy, like Fastweb and Telecom Italia.
Since April 2007, he is involved in the COMETA project, as a member of Application Identification and Support Team and Hardware and Software Technical Support Team. He took part, as trainer, in many induction and dissemination events in Italy.
His actual interests include networking and peer-2-peer system simulations and modeling, genetic algorithms and game theory as solving tools for networking problems. He is currently working as system administrator of the Grid-node of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Catania). He also offers support for the process of adapting scientific and industrial applications over the Grid infrastructure.
Actually his research interests include iPhone programming as innovative input device for system administration.