I was born in Brescia-Italy, in March 20th 1975 and graduated in Environmental Economics  at the University  of Siena in 2001. After a period of almost two years in Oxford-UK, where he studied Biology and Chemistry as an Associate Student at Brooks University,  I moved back to Italy to undertake a PhD Program in Environmental Chemistry, in 2003.  In 2018 I won a Tenure Track position of an Assistant Professor at the Energy, Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG-Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen). The call detailed the core of the area of research as: understanding "Energy and Industry Network Dynamics" to assess and explore the transition to a low-carbon society. The text of the call thrilled me extraordinarily. Perhaps because it contained some “keywords”, like networks, energy, industry systems and interdisciplinary fields. It was the harbor, in my opinion, for my research on Complexity and Energy. It has always been my conviction that the theme of complexity is of paramount importance to understand energy processes in the light of sustainability goals. Complexity is the common feature, though yet to be fully understood, of both anthropic and ecological systems. And complexity is the paradigm to reconcile them. Unfortunately, before I was appointed, the professor who wrote the call, Gerard Dijkema, passed away and I had to honor and responsibility to design research and a teaching program to address the “energy-industry network dynamics” thematic area.  
In the domain of teaching, I designed an original course on complex system theories applied to energy systems, with a particular focus on network theory (with some hints of Agent Based Modelling) as an approach to complexity. In the domain of research, I developed the four following main research lines: 1) Theoretical and empirical investigation of the evolutionary nexus between energy and complexity, from a molecular scale up to the scale of production networks, with new models and metrics based on network theory;  2) The dynamic and transformative relationship between efficiency (and power) and energy use in human made systems; 3) the use of the digital space as a source of data and information to investigate firms and other societal actors; 4) approaches based on the concept of complexity, such as Agent Based Modelling, to model the uncertainty in the decision-making processes of economic actors. Currently I am associated professor in Energetics of Complex Systems at ESRIG, University of Groningen.