Simone Melzi is an Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Verona (2018) after graduating in Mathematics at the University of Milan (2013). He held postdoctoral positions at Sapienza University of Rome, École Polytechnique, and the University of Verona. His research focuses on geometry processing, 3D shape analysis, and Geometric deep learning. He was awarded the Eurographics Young Researcher Award , the EG-Italy PhD Thesis Award, a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (Seal of Excellence), and the BE-FOR-ERC grant. He is a Eurographics Junior Fellow and an ELLIS Scholar.