Born in Milan (Italy) in 1971. MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and PhD in Energetics at Politecnico di Milano in 2001. Actually is Associate Professor of “Power Production from Renewable Energy Sources”. Since 1999 works as a researcher at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano in the field of high efficiency power plants, supercritical CO2 cycles, ORC, cogeneration and concentrating solar power plants. He is author of many papers in the same fields.