I studied Mathematics at La Sapienza University of Rome, where I obtained my degree cum laude in 1992, with a master thesis in Complex Geometry, under the supervision of Edoardo Sernesi.

I had to take a break from maths for about a year in 1993-94 because of compulsory military service, which I did in the military engineering corps.

Then I got an Italian PhD in 1998 with a thesis in Riemannian Geometry under the direction of Sylvain Gallot. I stayed at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon from 1995 to 1997.

In the years 1997-1999 I was post-doc at the Institut Fourier of Grenoble, funded by different research grants (INdAM, CNR, TMR-Marie Curie).

I was appointed Maître de Conférence at the Claude Bernard University of Lyon in 1999.

I left this position in 2001 when I became Researcher at La Sapienza.

I was promoted Associate Professor in 2007.

I obtained my scientific qualification in the ASN call 2016, and I am Full Professor of Geometry at La Sapienza since 2022.

I was in the board of the doctorate in mathematics of La Sapienza from 2009 to 2019 : I have had, until now, four PhD students (Filippo Cerocchi, Erika Pieroni, Nicola Cavallucci and Andrea Drago).

I also had the privilege of being the supervisor of the master's or bachelor's thesis of some excellent students such as Mauro Artigiani, Riccardo J. Buonocore, Alessandro Maria Masullo, Irene Pasquinelli and many others, who are now young researchers scattered all over the world.

I have been invited professor and I have given a hundred of talks in the last 20 years in several universities and research centers (ENS of Lyon, École Polytecnique of Paris-Palaiseau, University of Orsay-Paris Sud, Paris 6 and Paris 7, Institut Fourier of Grenoble, Mathematical Institut of Geneva, ETH of Zurich, Mathematiches Forschunginstitut of Oberwolfach, ESI of Wien, CIRM of Luminy, Euler IMI of S.Petersburg, University of Luxembourg, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, SNS of Pisa etc.).