He is currently the head of the department of computer science. His research interests include various areas of distributed systems and security. He received his computer science Ph.D. from the University of L’Aquila in 2007. In 2007 he was research associate at Imperial College London and in 2010 Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London. He participated to several European, Italian and UK projects where he had the opportunity to collaborate with several institutions such as European Space Agency and Ministry of Cultural Heritage.