Professor of Arboriculture and Olive Growing at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences (D3A) of the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, where has been Director since 1 November 2021. Author and co-author of about 300 scientific and technical articles https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=sUBzK5EAAAAJ&hl=it (of which 122 are reviewed on Scopus). Member for more than 30 years of the Italian Society of Horticulture (SOI). Member of the ISHS International Horticultural Society and the Japanese Horticultural Society for 20 years. Member of the National Academy of Agriculture of Bologna and of the National Academy of Olive and Oil of Perugia. My scientific and technical interests are linked to fruit trees, propagation, pruning and training systems, differentiation in flowers and architecture in trees, evaluation, defense and enhancement of germplasms, sustainable management of the fruit and olive agroecosystem with particular reference to the problem of replanting, intensification and sustainability of tree crops, precision agriculture, and the use of biostimulants.