After graduating from the University of Pisa in Agricultural Sciences in 2000, with an entomology thesis on the phenology of vine leafhoppers, he obtained a PhD in Plant Production Sciences in 2005 at the Department of Cultivation and Protection of Woody Species, University of Pisa, under the supervision of Prof. Luciano Santini. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Planthoppers and leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha) in the vine agroecosystem: faunistic and bio-ethological investigation on the main grapevine species of Western Tuscany”, focused on the taxonomy, ecology, and behavior of Auchenorrhyncha in vineyard systems.

After receiving a young‑researcher grant in 2005–2006, he collaborated in 2006–2007 on a major Trentino research initiative funded by EU programmes (Safecrop), spending a research period at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana under the guidance of Dr. Meta Virant‑Doberlet. This experience marked the beginning of his long‑term specialization in Biotremology, which has since become the central theme of his scientific career.

Since 2008, he has been based in Trentino as an entomologist at the Agricultural Institute of San Michele all’Adige, which became the Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM) in 2010. In 2017 he became head of the Agricultural Entomology Research Unit, and in 2019 he also took responsibility for the Plant Pathology and Agricultural Microbiology Unit. Since January 2022 he has led the Plant Protection Research Unit, created by merging the two groups.

He is the author of more than 100 peer‑reviewed articles in international journals and editor of two scientific volumes published by Springer: “Biotremology: Studying Vibrational Behavior” (2019) and “Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution” (2022).

He serves as a scientific evaluator and Monitor for the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission and as reviewer for several international funding bodies, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), among others.

He is the creator of two pest‑control technologies that received the Bernard Blum Award in 2017 and 2022: Tremos, for vibrational mating disruption, and Shindo, the first trap worldwide combining pheromones and vibrational stimuli.

In 2016 and 2018 he served as main convener of the First and Second World Congress of Biotremology, after which he was appointed “Trentino Ambassador for Congresses”.