Present: Consultant in respiratory and sleep medicine, adjunct lecturer at the University of Bari School of Medicine, working in the High-Intensity Respiratory Unit. Master of Interventional Pulmonology. ERS ELF Professional Advisory Committee Chair, European Lung Foundation. Previous holder of a research fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine (USA); Clinical and Research fellowship in lung transplantation, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of NSW (AU). Clinical activity in acute and chronic respiratory failure and non-invasive (NIV) and invasive mechanical ventilation for COPD and neuromuscular diseases. Collaborations: Department of Neurology for the care of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and cardiology for patients affected by pulmonary hypertension. Main research interest: acute and chronic respiratory failure with particular attention to the weaning process and the initiation to NIV; techniques of NIV, including intermittent abdominal ventilation; telemedicine; COPD; COVID19 respiratory failure and proning; rare pulmonary diseases; and the end stages/end of life of patients with respiratory diseases. Author of 40 peer-reviewed articles (Pubmed) (Scopus H index 11).