Always interested in science and nature since he was really young. After high school he decided to give up another passion – play punk & rock music – and his tendency for the scientific subjects led him to take a degree in Environmental Sciences and then also a master degree in Marine Sciences. During the academic years he had the opportunity to improve his knowledge about the flora and fauna both for the marine and terrestrial habitats. In the same years he took part in a course about ‘geophysics exploration of the polar areas’ and immediately he understood what way he wanted to follow. For this reason, after the degrees he worked several years on different scientific projects and in March 2017 he defended and deposited his PhD thesis in Earth, Environmental and Polar Sciences run in collaboration among the University of Siena (Italy), the Italian National Antarctic Museum (Italy) and the British Antarctic Survey (United Kingdom) with a specialization in polar benthic ecology.

His first step in the Polar Regions was during his PhD, when he participated as researcher in an international winter expedition in Svalbard. Since that moment he joined several (research) expeditions to remote places – Northern and Southern Oceans – on board the Norwegian ship R/V Helmer Hansen and the British ship R/V James Clarke Ross.

After several years working for science doing research, international conferences and publishing manuscripts he decided that was the moment to spend more time in the field. For this reason, from the 2015 he started to work constantly in the polar areas building and improving his skills and polar credentials. He spent time doing practice and courses about GPS systems, avalanches risks, driving zodiacs and small boats and other certificates to operate in the polar areas. Thanks to these new skills plus his personal background related with outdoor activities he started to guide full-time. In the first seasons mainly guiding snowmobile and camping trips around Svalbard, a Norwegian Archipelago. Then, from the 2017 he started to work as expedition guide for different national and international companies and today is working full-time in the Oceanwide expedition team as Expedition leader and Assistant Expedition Leader sharing with the guests and reserchers his love and passion for Antarctica and Polar areas!

In addition to his scientific and technical expertise, he is also a professional wildlife and travel photojournalist. He loves to use his images as a teaching method to reach as many people as possible and communicate to new generations, people and institutions about what science is doing in these particular areas of the planet to protect the species and the environment. For this reason, in recent years, he has also created an exhibition on the polar regions – with images and videos – which has been exhibited at some important occasions such as, for example, the 2022 Science Festival, in Italy.
He is the author of the photographic book called ‘Polar Lights’ published in 2019 and currently available online on various platforms such as IBS and Feltrinelli.

Thanks to his incredible direct experience, both as a researcher and as a professional guide, in recent years he has become the head of the polar section in a tour operator with thirty years of experience in travels. Therefore, if you have any curiosities or questions relating to polar travel, you can certainly rely on his experience to give you the best advice.