As astrophysicist I am author of around 180 scientific publications with around 130 referred papers published on international high-impact journals. I mainly work on topics related to galaxy evolution, with a particular focus on dark matter in galaxies, gravitational lensing, stellar and structural properties of galaxies, and machine learning. I am involved in the science that will be exploited with next-generation facilities as Euclid and Rubin, and in different other projects/surveys: KiDS@VST, StePS-WEAVE@WHT, 4MOST-StePS, KABS@VST, Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (PN.S.) survey, Fornax Cluster Deep Survey, etc. Below are my main roles.