He obtained the first cycle degree in Civil Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in 2009 with a thesis entitled 'Application of GPS Systems and Geographic Information Systems in support of an evolved Car Sharing service'.
He obtained the second cycle degree in Civil Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in 2012 with a thesis entitled 'Innovative Techniques and procedures for buildings extraction from LiDAR data'.
In the post-graduate period he continues his research activities at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and with a collaboration carried out through an internship at the Territorial Information System of the Municipality of Bologna in support of the Bologna Solar City project by supporting the activities of calculating solar radiation, creating thematic maps, monitoring buildings and updating the Municipal Technical Charter.
He is the winner of a research grant at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna entitled 'Methods of analysis and extraction of features from LiDAR data in urban areas' in 2013. He obtained the qualification to the profession of Engineer and has been registered in the Register of Engineers of the Province of Bologna n ° 8976A since 2014.
From 2014 to 2016 he is enrolled in the PhD at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and discusses the final exam with a thesis entitled 'Innovative use and integration of remote sensed geospatial data for 3D city modeling and GIS urban applications' by acquiring the title of PhD in 2017.
During the PhD period he was awarded a grant from the Marco Polo program and had the opportunity to spend three months abroad in collaboration with the geomatics group at the Mathematics Department of the University of Coimbra to expand research into field of Geographic Information Systems applied to the analysis of solar radiation in urban areas.
In 2016 he contributed to the birth of the Unibo @ CriBo Laboratory, a collaboration between Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and the Bologna Provincial Committee of the Italian Red Cross, for the development of remotely piloted aircraft systems, commonly called drones, through new planning methodologies overflights and the processing of remote sensing data for monitoring, emergency management, search and rescue.
In 2017 he won a research grant at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna entitled 'Smart water and soil salinity management in agro-wetlands'.
In 2018 he won a research grant at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna entitled 'Analysis of 3D data from photogrammetry and laser scanning, coverage through thermal and multispectral sensors from aerial platforms, terrestrial and RPAS, for the generation of 3D city models and for the monitoring of natural and anthropized environments'.
In 2019 he won a research grant at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna entitled 'Geomatic research for the development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: integration of photogrammetry and acoustic analysis for marine biology applications'.
Author of dozens of scientific publications in international journals and in national and international conference proceedings.
In academic research activities he has actively collaborated in numerous competitive research projects: 'ENERGYCITY - Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in cities across Central Europe', 'SUBCOAST - A collaborative project aiming at developing a GMES – service for monitoring and forecasting subsidence hazards in coastal lowland areas around Europe ',' ChoT - The challenge of remote sensing thermography as indicator of energy efficiency of buildings ',' Subsidence and vertical soil movements in Emilia – Romagna plain developing applications in GIS environment related to the analysis of SAR and GNSS data integrated with geostatistical spatial interpolation ',' AGROWETLANDS II - Smart water and soli salinity management in agro – wetlands', 'SUSHI DROP - Sustainable fisheries wIth drones data processing'.
Teacher of numerous thematic workshops: 'Photogrammetry Flight Planning for RPAS' at Emergency Simulation Training Academy 'L. Gusmeroli 'Bologna Provincial Committee of the Italian Red Cross,' OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week 'at CODE ^ 3 DICAM Center for International Cooperation and Development on the thematic areas of Engineering, Environment and Emergency,' UN Maps for Somalia - Mapathon 'in collaboration with United Nations, 'QGIS software' at XVI Meeting of Italian GRASS GIS and GFOSS users, 'The use of remote sensing data in applied geology: experiences and perspectives' at IAEG - OGER,' Use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems - Equipment and Sistemi 'at Red Tech.
Senior assistant professor at Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna) with academic discipline: ICAR/06 Surveying and Mapping
