(Born May 23, 1965, in Milan, Italy) Flavio Costa lives in the Geneva area in Switzerland with his wife, daughter and son. Previously, he worked at STMicroelectronics and lived in France, while he had started working in Milan (Italy) for Henkel Italia and NEC Italy. A 1984 graduate of Liceo Scientifico Statale "E. Majorana" in Rho (MI), Italy (he was 11th grader at La Mirada High Scholl, La Mirada CA, USA), he received a master's degree in Electronic Engineering (software engineering) from the Politecnico of Milan (Italy) in 1990.
Since 1998 he works at CERN (Switzerland) and since 2011 in the Invenio team.