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.