He received his PhD in Chemistry in 2006; from 2006 to 2008 he was a PostDoc at the S3 Centre (now Institute Nanoscience) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He has been a visiting fellow at the Technical University of Denmark DTU, University College London UCL, Brandeis University. His main research interests concern the combined experimental and computational design and production of bio-(in)organic interfaces for nanobiotechnological applications.