"Laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Pisa, 1985. Researcher, National Research Council of Italy (Cnr), 1987. Senior researcher, CNR Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo", 2001. Associate researcher, Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), 2013-2014. Projects on signal and image processing, robotics, nondestructive testing and evaluation, astrophysical imaging, information technologies for cultural heritage, computational biology. Teaching Physics, Instrumentation and Measurements, and Microwaves, University of Pisa. Chair (2010-2014) and member of the steering committee, Ercim working group on multimedia understanding through semantics, computation and learning (Muscle). Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, senior member of the IEEE, Signal Processing Society, member of the Italian Society for Communications and Information Technology (Aict-Aeit), associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Stay at the Master School in Communication of Science in Trieste, Italy, 2000-2002.