Roman by birth, civil and environmental engineer by formal education, Venetian and eco-urbanist by adoption, Florentine and systems thinker by choice. 

PhD  cum  laude  in Architecture, City, and Design (Università  Iuav di Venezia), Assistant Professor  of Urbanism at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence, and Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at the International College, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since 2018, he has been a Lecturer of Systems Thinking and EMergy Assessment at the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development and Territory Management, University of Turin, after training in such fields also with direct disciples of H.T. Odum’s. Systems thinking, diagramming, and resource stocks and flows have also been the focus of
his presence (2015–)  in  Ca’ Foscari’s research group of Interdisciplinary Physics,  while  impacting his spatially- and transdisciplinary-oriented overall activities. 
He has a professional and academic record of international cooperation and exchange projects with Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the rest of Europe; professional, research, and teaching experience with institutions from Europe, China, and North America. Invited keynote speaking, chairing, and organisational roles at international conferences and symposia. Systems-based research has hit  –  among others  –  urban health, covid-19 communication, and the management of a cardiac surgery humanitarian hospital in Sudan.