Received his Masters degree in Physics at "Sapienza" University of Rome in 1991 and joined Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in 1997. Now he is a Senior Research Technologist at the INGV. Since 1997 he has been working on Glaciological radar as a Technologist at the INGV. The basic research interests are environmental geophysics, glaciology, radar science in geophysics and glaciology. He was principal investigator and co-investigator of five Italian Antarctic projects, developing Radio Echo Sounding (RES) Systems widely used in Antarctica by the Italian group and principal Coordinator of the Italian Radio Echo Sounding Database (IRES database). He participated at eleven Antarctic expedition from 1997 to 2015, collecting over thirty thousand kilometers of radar data in various projects (evaluation of the ice mass balance, determination of the drilling point of Epica project, Dome C ice conditions of the bedrock and subglacial lakes exploration).
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