Senior Research Fellow within the European H2020 project Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core: 1.5 Myr of greenhouse gas -climate feedbacks.
MSc in Geophysical Sciences (University of Catania) and PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca' Foscari-Venice).
His research line focuses mainly on two topics: i) the reconstruction of past climatic and environmental conditions based on ice core records and ii) the study of the chemical and physical properties of the seasonal snowpack in the Arctic environment.
He is currently involved in the analysis of glacial archives from polar and alpine regions (i.e. ice cores, snow, and firn), using mass spectrometry techniques for trace elements determination. He is particularly interested in the study of halogens (bromine and iodine) in glacial records, and their link with seasonal sea ice fluctuations, as well as the study of biogeochemical cycles of heavy metals, organic compounds, black carbon, mercury, and microplastics in the Arctic cryosphere. Since 2018, he has been part of the Italian team of Ice Memory, an international research project aimed at preserving the climate signal recorded in mountain glaciers around the world. Since 2019, he has been responsible for the long-term chemo-physical snow monitoring program in Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard). During the 2023-24 and 2024-25 drilling seasons, he participated in the international research project Beyond Epica Oldest Ice at Little Dome C (LDC) in the Antarctic plateau, where he contributed to the processing of the extracted ice core. In his career, he has participated in numerous scientific expeditions to polar regions, including the Arctic (Svalbard, Alaska), Antarctica (LDC), as well as high altitude alpine areas (>4200m), and subterranean glacial environments. He has contributed, as first author or co-author, to more than 20 scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.

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