He graduated in 1992 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at
the College of St. Hild and St. Bede, University of Durham (UK). He
gained his doctorate in 2001 from New College, University of Oxford
(UK) while studying at the Department of Biochemistry.
Between 1993 and 2003, he worked at the Medical Research Council
Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit,affiliated with
the University of Oxford, and from 2003 to 2011 at the Centro di
Ricerca e Diagnostica Molecolare in vivo, at the Department of
Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology “D. Campanacci”,
afterwards known as the Department of Internal Medicine, Ageing and
Kidney Diseases, University of Bologna.
He currently teaches courses on the Theory and Methodology of
Human Movement at the Rimini
Campus, and course in both Italian and English related to Research Methodology Applied To Exercise And Sport, at both Rimini and the principle seat of Bologna University.