Fabrizio Montesi is Professor (Full Professor) of Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, where he currently serves as member of the management group and Head of Section for the section of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Programming Languages. Fabrizio also serves as President of the Microservices Community, maintainer of the open-source programming language Jolie (for microservices), management group member at the SDU Digital Democracy Centre, and Chair of Cloud Technology at the SDU eScience Center. He is also Founding Director at italianaSoftware, where he previously served as Co-CEO.

Fabrizio is an ERC Grantee (2023) and Villum Young Investigator (2020). He is the recipient of the SDU Innovation Prize (2017), the EAPLS (European Association for Programming Languages and systems) Best PhD Dissertation Award (2014), and the award for Best M.Sc. thesis on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) by the General Confederation of Italian Industry (2011).

His main interest is science of programming. His research focuses on programming languages and systems, cloud and edge computing, microservices, concurrency, cybersecurity, and digital democracy.