He is only 19 years old, but he has already won many prestigious, academic competitions. In 2009 he was the winner of Working Capital (a competition organized by Telecom Italy), and this year he won E-Skills (a competition launched by the European Commission) as runner-up in ‘Excellent Research in Digital Technology’ for a project on the propagation of content on the web. Wired IT included him among the top 10 Italian Digital Natives, while he, fond of social network analysis and the Internet, likens himself to “A knot in an infinite web of relationships …” (nicolagreco.com)