{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Mario Marcolongo", "label": "AI Evaluation, Information Integrity & Research", "email": "me@mariomarcolongo.com", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com", "summary": "Mario Marcolongo investigates sources, tests software and AI behaviour, and configures workflows and websites. Evidence includes paid scientific work and client training, localisation projects, Wikimedia investigations, accepted Atlas contributions and dated platform-recorded Gray Swan results. He holds Microsoft’s Copilot Studio Applied Skills credential. A Syntony network member, he studies IT through Metropolia’s Open UAS pathway. Based in Italy; open to remote work and relocation.", "location": { "countryCode": "IT" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "mariomarcolongo", "url": "https://github.com/mariomarcolongo" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-marcolongo" }, { "network": "ORCID", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2846-7115" }, { "network": "Google Scholar", "url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EnNykUIAAAAJ&hl=en" }, { "network": "ResearchGate", "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Marcolongo" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Entropy for Life", "position": "Science Writer, Fact-Checker & Website Manager", "startDate": "2023-06", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/entropy", "summary": "Scientific research, fact-checking, visual production, WordPress operations and client AI workflows for an Italian science-communication project.", "highlights": [ "Entropy for Life is an Italian science-communication project covering biology, evolution and the environment, with 500K+ combined followers and subscribers across its social accounts.", "Primarily remote work, with occasional onsite activities at the client's studio in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.", "Since June 2023, I have worked as a paid contractor on primary-literature research, scientific fact-checking and script development. Depending on the assignment, I write, co-write or review content, check claims against sources and adapt English-language evidence for Italian audiences, preserving terminology and scientific context.", "My work includes collecting and organizing data, creating charts and maps, preparing slides and on-screen assets, and researching images. I also contribute to short-form content and selected thumbnail concepts or production, independently or in collaboration with the video editor. Responsibilities vary by project. I personally created the data visualizations in the AIRC reel collaborations that use them; the whole reels are collaborative productions.", "Edited selected science videos and Shorts in DaVinci Resolve, including work published on Luca Perri’s channel through my collaboration with Giacomo. My role ranges from full editing to partial initial edits; the linked examples identify each contribution separately.", "I designed and built entropyforlife.it in WordPress. Since September 2023, my work has included responsive design, publishing, configuration and functionality changes, OVHcloud hosting, DNS, SSL and technical SEO. I investigate configuration and publishing problems and check functionality after changes.", "Since October 2026, configure reusable media workflows using Antigravity, Gemini and Google Drive: compare tools, configure prompts and data access, check file outputs and train the client to use the setup independently." ] } ], "volunteer": [ { "organization": "University of Padua research project", "position": "Research facilitation (volunteer)", "startDate": "2022-11", "endDate": "2025-06", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/research-operations", "summary": "Focus-group facilitation and accessible research procedures under Marta Panzeri, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation (DPSS), with a fellow facilitator.", "highlights": [ "Led or co-facilitated approximately 4–5 remote focus groups, supported recruitment and bibliographic research, and helped prepare accessible participation procedures.", "Prepared facilitation guides and worked with Marta Panzeri at the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation (DPSS), researchers and a second facilitator on consent, optional captions, written-chat participation, nonjudgmental prompts, timed turns, recording boundaries and handoffs. Reviewed guides corroborate the facilitator role and procedures; approximate session counts are self-reported. The university record establishes the project context." ] }, { "organization": "Wikipedia, Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons", "position": "Public contributor", "startDate": "2018", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/wikimedia", "summary": "English-to-Italian translation, citation review, multilingual metadata and scientific visualizations.", "highlights": [ "Translate and adapt English-language scientific and technical articles into Italian, researching terminology and checking sources.", "Review citations, reconcile conflicting records and improve English and Italian Wikidata labels, descriptions and aliases.", "Create sourced biomedical explanations, vector diagrams, charts and maps; my gene-overlap diagram was reused in a Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature book chapter." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Metropolia University of Applied Sciences", "area": "Information Technology — Open UAS Path Studies", "studyType": "Studies, no degree awarded", "startDate": "2026-08", "url": "https://www.metropolia.fi/en/study-at-metropolia/open-university/path-studies/it-online" }, { "institution": "University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli", "area": "Medicine studies, degree not completed", "studyType": "Studies, no degree awarded", "startDate": "2020" } ], "certificates": [ { "name": "Microsoft Applied Skills: Build an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio", "date": "2026-10-19", "issuer": "Microsoft", "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/mariomarcolongo/credentials/48386317f9899eb1" }, { "name": "Atlassian Credentialed in JSM Fundamentals with AI", "date": "2026-10-24", "issuer": "Atlassian", "url": "https://cp.certmetrics.com/atlassian/en/public/verify/credential/4ec41335733f49508b42ab3faab010d1" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Scientific Research & Fact-Checking", "keywords": [ "Literature search", "data visualization", "WordPress", "structured metadata", "accessible research procedures" ] }, { "name": "Software QA & AI Workflows", "keywords": [ "Manual QA", "regression", "localisation testing", "bug reports in GitHub Issues", "browser DevTools", "Terminal/npm", "API/JSON checks", "Xcode/iOS Simulator", "WordPress", "DNS/SSL" ] }, { "name": "AI Evaluation, Red Teaming & Information Integrity", "keywords": [ "LLM adversarial testing", "jailbreaks", "prompt injection", "response-pattern analysis", "agent instructions", "technical documentation", "client workflows" ] } ], "languages": [ { "language": "Italian", "fluency": "Native" }, { "language": "English", "fluency": "Fluent (EF SET C1, March 2024)" } ], "projects": [ { "name": "AI Safety Formalization Atlas", "description": "Five merged contributions to source auditing, citation provenance and repository tooling; coauthor of the Atlas preprint released on Zenodo on 1 October 2026.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/atlas", "roles": [ "Open-source contributor · Preprint coauthor · 2026" ] }, { "name": "Yourself to Science", "description": "I founded and maintain a directory that helps people find research-participation opportunities and follow their original sources.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/yourself-to-science", "roles": [ "Founder · Independent maintained project" ] }, { "name": "Source investigations", "description": "Selected cases showing what I checked, which evidence changed the conclusion and what remains uncertain.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/investigations", "roles": [ "Public-source contributions" ] }, { "name": "AI evaluation & red teaming", "description": "I investigate unexpected AI behavior, check whether it recurs, and document what the evidence supports. My independent testing spans chat, image, agent and indirect challenges, supported by scientific fact-checking and source investigations.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/ai-evaluation", "roles": [ "Independent testing & network membership" ] }, { "name": "Notandia", "description": "A browser extension and separate Zotero plugin for research workflows. My work includes English-Italian UI localisation, terminology research, cross-browser testing, GitHub issue tracking and Xcode/iOS Simulator checks.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/notandia", "roles": [ "Creator & maintainer · May 2025–Present · Independent project · Remote, Italy" ] }, { "name": "Scientific visualizations", "description": "Scientific diagrams, charts and maps across Wikimedia Commons, Tableau Public and Flourish, including an original biomedical diagram reused in a Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature book chapter.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/scientific-visualizations", "roles": [ "Public diagrams and data views" ] }, { "name": "English Wikipedia Link Converter", "description": "A Python Telegram bot converting non-English Wikipedia links into English equivalents. I maintain English-Italian UI localisation, saved language preferences and fallback, test message behavior and diagnose AWS deployment issues.", "url": "https://mariomarcolongo.com/work/telegram", "roles": [ "Creator & maintainer · Apr 2024–Present · Independent project · Remote, Italy" ] }, { "name": "QCAE Online Questionnaire", "description": "A multilingual web interface for the existing QCAE questionnaire, with keyboard navigation, local scoring and JSON/CSV export. 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