He received his PhD degree in materials science in 2005. He was then employed at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, at Helmoltz Zentrum Berlin and at the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IFN). He received a national grant for the spectroscopic study of the terahertz electrodynamics of 2-D electrons in plasmonic microcavities.