Born in Grado (GO) 1983, is PhD in Territorial Government and Urban
Design XXVI Cycle at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
(DAStU), Politecnico di Milano. He is a contract Professor of urban
and territorial analysis at Politecnico di Milano and works on the
project LIFE SAM4CP with the Interuniversity Department of Regional
and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino. Graduated in
Urban Planning and Territorial Policies he is involved in research
activities on land take analysis and its environmental effects.

He is a member of Ecosystem Service Partnership (ESP) and a member of
National Research Centre on Land Take – ITALY (CRCS).

Co-editor of Italian National Reports on land take (2010, 2012, 2014
and 2016) of CRCS. He is also co-author of the book “L’insostenibile
consumo di suolo” (Edicom Edizioni, 2013), of the chapter “Policy and
good practices” of the book “Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil
Ecosystem Services” edited by Ciro Gardi (Routledge, in press) and
many international publications on land take and its effect on
Ecosystem Services.