MD, PhD. Since 2020, Associate Professor of Blood Diseases at the Department CHIRMED of University of Catania.

Alumnus of Scuola Superiore di Catania, department delegate for Path for Transversal Skills and Orientation (2023-2026), mentor in the Mentorship Mixer at EHA2024
Research Associate at CAPMM-George Mason University, US, post-doc fellow at Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan.

Research interests have been focused in the last 15 years on Multiple Myeloma biology and clinics, exploring the role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in the niche and the arginine metabolism. H-index = 33 (Scopus, 2024).