For several years, Alberto led the CERN group that develops and operates the scientific computing services and the data center infrastructure required by the laboratory and its experiments to achieve their research mission. He represents CERN on the advisory boards of the Internet Society (isoc.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org). He has also been a programming professor at the University of Lausanne. He graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), when he received the first IEEE prize among electronic engineering students in the Northern Italy section.