An engineer, Ph.D. in Information and Electronic Engineering, he has been working at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA) since 2008, where he is a Senior Researcher and Head of the “System and Infrastructure Security” Laboratory. During his Ph.D., he worked on the development of multi-agent dependable systems for the real-time mission planning of teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He has been a peer reviewer of scientific and research manuscripts for several journals, such as ELSEVIER Aerospace Science and Technology, IEEE Access, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, MDPI Applied Sciences, MDPI Sensors, etc. He has published scientific papers on journals and conference proceedings about the following themes: distributed intelligent systems, multi-agent systems, automated planning, modelling of complex systems, attack modelling and countermeasures. He was awarded with two best paper awards about the mission planning of UAVs and one certificate of appreciation for best paper about drone intrusion modelling. In 2020, he was part of the CIRA team that was awarded the EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2020 (20.RTI.PRZ.080, “Innovative Solutions/Technologies for the Countering of Swarms of UAVs, specifically on the Protection of Static and Dynamic Land Facilities and Platforms”), through the SWADAR (Swarm Advanced Detection And Tracking) project (https://www.edrmagazine.eu/defence-innovation-prize), assigned by the European Defence Agency (EDA).