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Archaeologist.
Junior assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and teacher in charge of the courses of Archaeology of Pre-Islamic Historical South Asia and Archaeology of the Indo-Iranian Borderland.
Since 1999 he collaborated with several archaeological missions in Asia,
He is italian deputy director of the Joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR-Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna) and, within the activities of the Archaeological Mission in Fars, he is currently co-director, together with Dr. Emad Matin, of the LoP-Land of Persepolis project.
Since 2008 he is active in projects related to the archeology of Iraqi Kurdistan and since 2021 he is Scientific Director of the Italian Historical-Archaeological Mission in Kurdistan (MiSAK) of ISMEO, the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, and of the International Institute of Kurdish Culture in Rome.
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