Associate professor of stratigraphic geology and sedimentology, he deals with the analysis of facies of predominantly Tertiary and Quaternary successions of Sicily and Tunisia, with the analysis of current marine and transitional environments through the study of ostracod associations. He is a member of Conisma, member of the Statione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli, Associate editor of Carnets de Geologie . He is the author of over 100 new taxa.