After graduating at the University of Pisa in "Agricultural Sciences" in 2000, with an entomology thesis on the phenology of vine leafhoppers, in 2005 he obtained a Doctorate in "Plant Production Sciences" at the Department of Cultivation and Protection of Woody Species, University of Pisa, under the supervision of Prof. Luciano Santini. The title of the PhD thesis was: “Planthoppers and leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha) in the vine agroecosystem: faunistic and bio-ethological investigation on the main grapevine species of the Western Tuscany”.

After obtaining a research grant for young researchers in 2005-06, in 2006-07 he collaborated in the context of a large Trentino project financed by European funds (Safecrop), spending a period abroad at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana under the guidance of Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet. From this moment on, his topic of reference and which characterized the continuation of his career was Biotremology.

Since 2008 he has settled in Trentino as an entomologist researcher at the Agricultural Institute of San Michele all'Adige which in 2010 became the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM). Since 2017 he has been responsible for the Agricultural Entomology research unit, also taking on the role of head of the Plant Pathology and Agricultural Microbiology unit in 2019. From January 2022, he is the leader of the Plant Defense unit which was born from the merge of the two units of Entomology and Plant Pathology.

He is author of over 200 scientific articles 67 of which on international journals with impact factor (Scopus: H-index 24) and editor of two scientific volumes for Springer: "Biotremology: Studying Vibrational Behavior" of 2019 and "Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution" of 2022.

He acts as Reviewer for the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission and other international agencies such as the "Austrian Science Fund" (FWF) the "Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSP)", and the "National Science Foundation" (NSA).

Creator of two products for pest control that were awarded with the Bernard Blum Award, in 2017 and 2022: the "Tremos", for Vibrational Sexual Confusion and the "Shindo", the first trap in the world with bimodal action (pheromones + vibrations).

In 2016 and 2018 he was main convener of the First and Second World Congress of Biotremology, following which he received the honor of "Ambassador of Trentino for Congresses".