Giovanni Salini was born in Pedro de Valdivia, Sierra Gorda communa, Antofagasta Region, Chile. He graduated with a Bachelor on Physics Science from Universidad de Chile in April, 1985. He pursued his MSc on Physics from Universidad de Santiago de Chile in 1994, majoring in artificial neural networks. He received his doctorate in Physics from Universidad de Santiago de Chile in 2009, majoring on PM2.5 air pollution with neural network forecasting model.