He got his "laurea" degree (M.S. equivalent) in computing engineering from the University of Genova, Italy. After working in the private sector for ten years (in a multinational company in the field of railway automation), he is now with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. His activity focuses mainly on the management of the whole software development lifecycle and related processes: design, implementation, architecture design, etc. He currently also works on the software implementation of statistical algorithms.