Laurea in Agronomy, University of Perugia (1990). He has more than 19 years researcher at the CNR whit experience in chemical processing in soil, groundwater and sea water of organic and inorganic compounds and pollutants. From June 1997 he has been working on the Adriatic Sea. He has participate how head chief to numerous oceanographic cruises for physical and chemical samplings in all Adriatic and Mediterranean sea. He is taken care of the processes biogeochemical in the water column, in the water sediment interface and interactions of pollutants and xenobiotics in marine sediments and fish. He is author/coauthor of more than 60 scientific publications. From 2009 he is head section of ISMAR-CNR of Ancona.