I graduated Magna cum Laude in 1985 from Padova University with a degree in Organic Chemistry. In 1989 I received my PhD in crystallography from the same university. In February 1990 I joined the laboratory of Dr. James C. Sacchettini at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, initially as postdoctoral fellow and subsequently as Instructor. My interest was initially for a class of small fatty acid binding proteins that had been related to obesity and diabetes. Subsequently most of my work was involved in bacterial enzymes that could be used as target for the design of novel antibiotics. During the 6 years I spent there, I mentored several graduated students and post-doctoral fellows. In 1997 I joined Merck and Co., Inc., as Senior Research Biochemist. As part of my job, I provided structural biology support to different projects, including diabetes, inflammation, oncology and anti- infective targets. During the course of my career, I published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has been invited to give several talks at local universities and at national and international meetings. From March 2016 to February 2018 I have been embedded in the Siemens Electron Microscopy center at NYSBC where I learned principles and practice of cryo electron microscopy, and I’m currently involved in applying it to drug discovery.Since 2010, I am an active member of the organizing committee for the International School of Crystallography. I took the position of School Director in October 2023.In March 2020 I joined Nanoimaging services (www.nanoimagingservices.com) as Scientific Lead of the newly established NIS-East site in Woburn, MA. In 2021 I transitioned to my current CSO position in the company.Specialties: Protein expression, purification and crystallization; X-Ray diffraction data collection (both in-house and synchrotron radiation); structure solution and refinement (extensive knowledge of most common suites of crystallography and graphic programs); drug discovery and design; maintenance of X-ray diffraction; hardware and software for data collection and processing. CryoEM (data collection and processing).Publications: full list at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gESU51oAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate