He grew up in Rome, Italy, where he became a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 2009. In 2007 he performed the first awake surgery with brain mapping in the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rome "La Sapienza", after returning from his neuro-oncology fellowship and brain mapping training with Prof. Hugue Duffau at the Centre Hospitaliere Universitaire de Montpellier, France. He trained with Prof. Ugur Ture and Prof. Gazi Yasargil in Advanced Microneurosurgical Techniques in Brain Tumour Surgery.