Investigador associat
Ecosistemes dels Dinosaures

 Graduated in Geological Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy), obtained a Ph.D. title in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Modena (Italy) with a dissertation on the Triassic pterosaurs. He did post-doctoral work at the University of Padova (Italy) on the Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates of the northern Adriatic region. He has been Curator of the Paleontological Museum of Monfalcone (Gorizia, Italy) from 1994 to 2009, field work director at the Cretaceous fossil site of Polazzo (Gorizia) from 1996 to 2008, and scientifical director of the field work at the Villaggio del Pescatore dinosaur site (Trieste, Italy) in 1998-1999. He participated to several field expeditions and surveys in Italy and abroad (Romania, Lebanon, Brazil and Iran). Author of 76 technical papers mainly about Vertebrate Palaeontology and in particular dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles and palaeoichnology. He also published about 100 divulgative papers and books on palaeontological and geological matter.