Master degree in Physics at the Padova University. Researcher at CNR since 1988. The main research activity is on the field of Earth Observarion, carried out using active instruments (Synthetic Aperture Radar-SAR, scatterometer), to monitor the sea surface, with the main focus on the meteorological processes at meso and micro scales (below 5 km) and on the extraction geophysical parameters from the SAR images. He is involved in alpine glaciers modelling, to study their evolution under the different scenarios of the climate change.
He coordinated projects with ESA (European Space Agency) and is co-investigator in projects of ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). At present he is Principal Investigator of IsCSK4MOSAiC, an ASI and CNR project, to provide to the artic expedition MOSAiC (mosaic-expedition.org, September 2019-September 2020) SAR images of CosmoSkyMED in near real time.
He is associated professor of Remote Sensing at the Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.

Current position: retired

Scopus - Author ID: 6701758544    http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4633-1238    WoS Researcher ID: O-2523-2015