Fabio Ciccarelli graduated in Management Engineering (curriculum: Decision Models for Management Engineering) in October 2023 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, with a thesis titled "Alternative strategies for Train Dispatching optimization: a study on the Paths&Cycles algorithm", under the supervision of prof. Laura Palagi. Since November 2023, he has been enrolled in the ABRO Ph.D. program, specializing in Operations Research (MAT-09), focusing his research activities on integer programming and combinatorial optimization.