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He graduated in Biology in the academic year 1970-71. Since that date, with various scholarships, he has been able to attend advanced courses in Food Science and Human Nutrition in Italy, at the University of Rome and INN, and abroad, at the University of London, Loughborough (UK) and Glasgow, where he has dedicated particular interest to energy metabolism and the physiology of nutrition.

Since 1975, he has been a Researcher at the INN in the Human Nutrition Laboratories until 2008 when he left the Institute with the qualification of Research Manager. Since the early 1980s, he has been interested in Nutritional Epidemiology and for this purpose has attended numerous high-level courses in Epidemiology and Biostatistics with a nutritional emphasis, at Italian institutions (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) and foreign institutions, in particular the INSERM in Paris, the School of Public Health at the State University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul (USA) (Master in Nutritional Epidemiology), and the New York State University at Buffalo (NY) Dept of Preventive Medicine.

The scientific interest ranges from basic aspects of nutrition, such as the study of energy metabolism and body composition in vivo in humans, to epidemiological aspects on the relationship between diet and health, especially between lifestyle and nutritional status.

He is a member of numerous working groups (LARN, Dietary Guidelines, Codex, Italian Task Force against Obesity (TFOI-WHO)), commissions (Ministry of Health's Lifestyle and Communication Commission, Editor of the Country Health Status Report), and national and international scientific committees. He is a member of national and international Scientific Societies, where he has held and continues to hold positions on the boards. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in national and international journals. He serves on the board and as a referee for national and international scientific journals.

He directed the Documentation and Nutritional Information Unit of the National Institute of Food Research and Nutrition. He was among the leaders of a wide investigation on the consumption and eating behaviors of Italians and is responsible for numerous other national and European research projects related to food, lifestyles, and their relationships with health. He was a member of the National Committee for Food Safety of the Ministry of Health until 2014.

Currently he is working as a teacher and is Vice President of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU).