Head of the Climate Modelling Laboratory and Impacts of ENEA, he Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, since 2015. He has a M.Sc. degree in Physical Oceanography, and a PhD in Marine Science (University Federico II of Naples). He has more than 25 years of experience in climate and ocean modelling. During the last years he has worked in the field of regional climate modelling and ocean energy at ENEA. His current research activities are focused on the development and assessment of regional climate models and their application to the renewable energy sectored coastal protection. He is member of the scientific committee for the European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA), Climate Mediterranean CORDEX initiative, and the Italian Oceanographic Commission. He has published more than 80 papers in journals and books and contributed to several technical reports and presentations at international conferences as invited speakers.