Researcher at Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - SSD AGR/04: Vegetables and Floriculture. Since 1/11/2019 Contract Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano. Teacher in many courses at Università degli Studi di Milano, namely ‘Floriculture and turf’, ‘Vegetable crops’, ‘Management of protected crops’, ‘Parks, gardens and urban greening’, ‘The cultivation of aromatic and medicinal plants’. The main research activities concerned traditional and innovative agricultural techniques aimed at improving the quanti-qualitative aspects of yield in vegetables, ornamental and aromatic species. Main recent research activities focused on: effect of biostimulants on ornamentals, vegetables and turfs; evaluation of species suitable for green roofs; modelling of heating requirements of horticultural crops in greenhouse; evaluation of new leafy vegetables for the ready-to eat production; optimization of fertilisation in ready-to-eat leafy vegetables organically or conventionally grown; use of wildflowers in urban and extra-urban areas; evaluation of some substrates for potted ornamentals; effect of the mineral fertilisation on yield and oil composition of sage, rosemary and perilla. Author of 119 scientific papers.