Enrico Formenti was born in Verona, Italy on May 1968. He received his master degree in Computer Science (110/110 magna cum laude) from the University of Milan. He defended his PhD in Computer Science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in October 1998. He became assistant professor in 2001 at the Univiersité de Provence (now Aix-Marseille Université). He got his "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" in 2002 from the Université de Provence and he became full professor at the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (now Université Côte d'Azur) in September 2003.
His research interests cover discrete dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics, computational complexity, dynamical complexity, chaotic behavior, dynamical systems for artificial intelligence.