Fabrizio Montesi

Fabrizio Montesi is a Professor and Head of Section in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He holds a leadership role as President of the Microservices Community since 2019. His research focuses on Choreographic Programming, Programming Languages, Cybersecurity, and Distributed Systems, with notable contributions to frameworks like Jolie and Choral. Montesi has secured significant grants, including EU Horizon Europe funding and Villum Foundation awards. He has supervised PhD students in microservices development and contributed to over 90 research outputs. His work emphasizes formal methods, concurrency, and secure distributed systems design.

Research Interests
His primary research areas include choreographic programming models, formal verification of distributed systems, and cybersecurity in microservices architectures. He explores theoretical foundations such as session types, process calculi, and linear logic, while developing practical tools like the Choco project for choreography-based IT systems. His work bridges theory and practice through frameworks like Jolie, enabling secure and scalable service-oriented computing.

Grants & Projects
- CHORDS (EU Horizon Europe): Choreographies for Distributed Systems (2024–2029)\n- X-IDF: Explainable Internet Data Flows (2022–2026)\n- Choco: Choreographies for connected IT systems (2020–2025). Projects emphasize cybersecurity for SMEs and formal methods for distributed systems.

Awards
- Best Artefact Award (2023)\n- Villum Synergy Grant (2022)\n- Distinguished Paper Award (2021)\n- Villum Young Investigator (2019)\n- Innovation Prize (2017).

Media & Outreach
Montesi has engaged with media on topics like AI tools for media houses, cybersecurity for SMEs, and Denmark’s success in EU research grants. His work is cited in Wikipedia and discussed in academic networks.