In 1999, he got the Master in Nuclear Engineering (summa cum laude). In 2003, he received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. He has more than 15-years experience on the use of deterministic and stochastic (Monte Carlo) codes applied to radiation transport problems. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the development of deterministic methods for neutron transport and their implementation into computational codes to simulate nuclear reactor cores. He is co-author of more than 40 publications, 24 of which on peer-reviewed international journals.