His areas of expertise are Lidar, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Cloud Physics, Climatology, Climate Change, Water Vapour, and Atmospheric Aerosols. He received his Laurea degree in Physics from Università degli Studi di Roma in 1988. Later, he became a Ph.D. in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring in 1996 from the University of Florence.