Rocco Chirivì obtained a degree in Mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1995; he earned his Diploma di Licenza from the Scuola Normale of Pisa in 1997, followed by his Diploma di Perfezionamento in 2000. He was a researcher in Algebra at the University of Pisa from 2002 to 2012 and has since been working as a researcher at the University of Salento. His main research focus is Representation Theory, at the intersection between Algebra, Combinatorics and the geometry of varieties related to group actions.