MB is an associate professor in Applied Physics at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara (UNIFE). As leader of the Laboratory to Advance in Ground heat exchange (LAG), he coordinates a team focused on numerical modelling and experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer phenomena. He took part to 6 European projects, two of which as leader of the UNIFE partnership (H2020, LIFE+), and 2 regional projects (EFDR), one of which as coordinator