I studied Mathematics at Sapienza University of Rome, graduating cum laude in 1992 with a Master's thesis in Complex Geometry supervised by Edoardo Sernesi.

I took a break from mathematics in 1993-94 to complete my compulsory military service in the Military Engineering Corps.

In 1998 I earned my Ph.D. in Riemannian Geometry  under the direction of Sylvain Gallot. I was based  at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon from 1995 to 1997.

From 1997 to 1999 I was postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble, funded by several research grants (INdAM, CNR and TMR-Marie Curie).

I was appointed Maître de Conférence at Claude Bernard University, Lyon 1 in 1999, a permanent position I held until 2001, when I took up a position as a Researcher at Sapienza University. 

I was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007.

After obtaining the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) in the 2016 round, I have held the position of Full Professor of Geometry at  Sapienza University since 2022. 

From 2009 to 2019 I served on the Academic Board for the Ph.D. program in Mathematics at Sapienza. To date, I have supervised five Ph.D. students (Filippo Cerocchi, Erika Pieroni, Nicola Cavallucci, Andrea Drago and Riccardo Colucci). I have also had the privilege of supervising the master's and bachelor's theses of several excellent students --such as Mauro Artigiani, Riccardo J. Buonocore,  Silvia Gangeri, Asia Mainenti, Klevi Markaj, Alessandro Maria Masullo, Irene Pasquinelli, Gabriele Peluso and Leonardo Vannini, among many others --who are now active as young researchers around the world.

Over the last 20 years, I have been an invited professor and delivered around a hundred of talks at numerous universities and research institutes, including ENS de Lyon, École Polytecnique (Paris-Palaiseau), Université Paris Sud (Orsay), Paris 6, Paris 7, Institut Fourier (Grenoble), the Mathematics Institut of Geneva, ETH Zurich, the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, ESI Vienna, CIRM Luminy, the Euler International Mathematical Institut in St. Petersburg,  the University of Luxembourg, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and SNS Pisa.

I am now the incoming Chair of the Academic Board in Mathematics (Presidente del CAD) at Sapienza University, taking office in November 2026.