Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics at University of L’Aquila. He has been working for 15 years on steam biomass gasification for hydrogen production and energy production by means of a conventional system (internal combustion engine) as well innovative devices such as fuel cells. He was directly involved in UNIQUE and UNIFHY 7FP projects in which he worked on CFD modelling of the UNIQUE gasifier, and overall system simulation of the UNIFHY system. He is co-author of more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals or conference proceedings. He is scientific lead for University of L’Aquila in the H2020 BLAZE project GA 815284 and H2020 GICO GA 101006656 project. He has been the scientific lead for University of L’Aquila in the national HBF 2.0 CCSEB_00224 project that financed the work published in this manuscript.