I graduated in 2004 from the Catholic University of Rome and specialized in Internal Medicine in 2009 at the same university with magna cum laude. I obtained a PhD degree in "Physiopathology of metabolism and nutrition" and in "Neurogastroenterology" at the Catholic University in Rome and KULeuven, Belgium, in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Since 2019, I have been a Visiting Researcher at T.A.R.GI.D., KULeuven, Belgium. Since 2022, I have taught at the Polytechnics University of Marche, Faculty of Medicine, Marche, Italy. I lead the Hepatology outpatient clinic of AST Ascoli Piceno, Marche region, Italy. I am the regional representative SINPE (Italian society of Metabolism and Nutrition). My fields of interest and research are gut microbiota, SIBO, clinical nutrition, hepatology with a special focus on MASH, and liver cirrhosis. I run research projects on neurogastroenterology, dumping syndrome, and DGBI.