SVP Leonardo Hypercomputing Continuum, Leonardo, Italy
Carlo Cavazzoni is Head of Leonardo Hypercomputing Continuum at Leonardo. Before joining Leonardo in May 2020, he spent more than 20 years at Cineca, the Italian supercomputing center, focusing primarily on supporting user communities and EU-funded projects.
Cavazzoni holds a PhD in physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS). He is a member of the ETP4HPC Steering Board, Chair of the Industrial Board of the Italian Center for Supercomputing (ICSC), a member of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology (ITATEC), and Leonardo’s representative in the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud
Throughout his career, Cavazzoni has collaborated with various user communities to enable applications on massively parallel high-performance computing (HPC) systems and innovative architectures. He has been one of the main contributors to the Quantum ESPRESSO suite of codes and the LiGen™ drug design software, among other projects. Cavazzoni has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, including papers published in Science, Physical Review Letters, and Nature Materials.
