He got his undergraduate degree in the 1979 at the Bologna University (Italy), and in 1984 the Ph. D. at the Bonn University working at the KFA Julich (Germany), were he spent the following two years as Post. Doc. He moved to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (USA) where he remained till september 1988 when he became research assistant for the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in, at those times, the recently open Lecce division. In 1992 he became Associate Professor at the University of Lecce, now of Salento, where, since then, he teaches Nuclear Physics courses. His scientific interests are addressed to the study of many-body theories applied to the description of the structure of atomic nuclei, and to the excitation of nuclei induced by photons, electrons and neutrinos.