Graduated in Natural Sciences in 1984.
CNR researcher since 1994 at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies (CNR-ITBM). Since 2002 at the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution (CNR-IIA). From 2019 to the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP).
CNR macro areas of reference: Earth and Environment.
Research interests:
  - environmental and geographical knowledge organization
  - qualitative and quantitative analysis of vertebrate fauna
  - Geographic Information Systems
  - military geosciences
He currently carries out research on conceptual development and technological innovation in the field of knowledge organization, controlled terminology and multilingual thesauri for the environment. He collaborated, among others, with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), with the European Environment Agency (EEA), with the American Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). He is co-author of the UNEP-Infoterra Thesauri, GEMET, GEneral Multilingual Environment Thesaurus and EARTh, Environmental Applications Reference Thesaurus.

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