Alessandro Improta received his BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa, in 2013. Alessandro has held a research position with the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa from 2009 to 2019 where he co-founded the Isolario project in 2013. He joined Catchpoint as a BGP expert in June 2019.