Chemist, from 1988 to 2020 he worked in the R&D department of Procter & Gamble, holding numerous managerial positions in various locations. The last was as Senior Technical Director at the P & G research center in Brussels, from 2015 to 2020. He led research and technological innovation groups at an international level; he has been Project Leader in various projects funded by the European Community; led collaborations with large multinational industrial partners; he has been a member of the European Technology Council of Procter & Gamble since 2004. He is the author of over 200 international patents and has been an invited lecturer in numerous courses and summer schools in Italy and abroad.
He is currently a contract lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, where he also holds the role of director of the "Grand Challenges" program, and Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Estonia).