Tullio Vardanega is currently associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padua, Italy, which he joined in January 2002. He holds a master degree in Computer Science obtained at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1986, and a PhD in Computer Science obtained at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, while working at European Space Agency Research and Technology Center (ESA/ESTEC), where he was from July 1991 to December 2001. At ESA, he was responsible for research and technology transfer projects ranging from software engineering methods and tools to real-time systems theory and technology, for use in the production of the software embedded in on-board satellite platforms and launcher avionics. At the University of Padua, he took on teaching and research responsibilities in the areas of high-integrity real-time systems, quality of service under real-time constraints and software engineering methods, including model-driven engineering and component-based development, and related processes, cloud and edge computing, and informatics education.
He has been running a score of research projects in the areas of his research interests funded by national and international organizations. He co-authored over 80 refereed papers. He has been holding organizational roles in a number of international events and bodies, for ESA, for the European Commission, for ISO, for Ada-Europe, and for IEEE and ACM conferences.