Graduated in Physical Chemistry at the University of Turin in 2002, he got his PhD in 2007 in Basic and Applied Bio-Molecular Sciences (University of Pavia and IUSS), and continued as postdoc at the University of Pavia for one more year. Between 2009 and 2013 he worked as postdoc in structural biology in the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University (The Netherlands), then he started his independent scientific research lab at the University of Pavia, Dept. Biology and Biotechnology, in 2014, thanks to the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation Career Development Award and the "Rita Levi-Montalcini" program for young researchers from MUR. Since August 2023, he is Full Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Pavia. In 10 years since the start of his first appointment as Principal Investigator, he made important contributions to science testified by high-profile international publications, and secured funding for research through several competitive research grants from various national and international funding agencies. His research activity focuses on the characterization of extracellular macromolecular systems using biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology.
Since 2022 he serves as President of the INF-ACT Foundation.
