Permanent senior scientist at Italian National Research Council (CNR) and scientific Co-PI of the NASA MPLNET Lidar Network, he is also graduate program faculty member of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). In the last ten years, he developed significant experience in applied atmospheric remote sensing techniques, both from space and from ground, to study aerosol, cloud and precipitation optical, geometrical and microphysical properties, together with their interaction with climate, meteorology, air quality and global earth-atmosphere energy budget. He participated in several field campaigns in South-East Asia in the frame 7-SEAS NASA mission. He holds a Ph.D degree in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique and speaks Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese.