Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics. He teaches Economics of Environment and Natural Resources at the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organizations at University of Tuscia (Italy). He graduated in Electronic Engineering, and specialized in the analysis of territorial systems at the University of Minnesota (USA). His research activity is focused on the study of the economic development of territorial systems based on the ecological economy approach. He is the scientific director of numerous national and international research projects, and he is the author of about 180 scientific publications, over 60 of which were published at the international level.