Everything started in 1997, I was just 17. I was traveling around Europe with my family for holiday. We stumbled in Delft during the bachelor open days and I was amazed by flow dynamics related sciences.

I saw my way.

Water world intrigued me and even today, I find very exciting to be involved in challenging problems related with human-nature interactions.

Few years later, during the University period, I found and I won an Erasmus fellowship to TU Delft. There, I prepared my Master thesis in the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics supervised by Prof. M.J.F. Stive and Prof. M. Brocchini: "The threshold of motion of coarse sediment particles by regular non-breaking waves".

In 2008, I got a PhD in Fluid Dynamics at DICAT, University of Genoa, discussing a Thesis on "Vorticity dynamics in the nearshore flows".

During my PhD training I investigated the nearshore circulation and related mixing using both theoretical and numerical tools. Emphasis was given to the vorticity transport and macrovortex dynamics. Part of these studies were performed at CACR (Center for Applied Coastal Research), University of Delaware, in collaboration with Prof. J.T. Kirby and Dr. R. Briganti.

Here I met my future wonderful wife.

As Marie Curie Fellow, in 2006, I worked at the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (Norwegian Center of Excellence at the University of Bergen) with Dr. K. Drinkwater on the Norwegian Coastal Current (NCC) dynamics.

In 2007, I began a fruitful collaboration with Prof. K.H. Christensen (University of Oslo and Norwegian Met Office) on both Lagrangian-like analyses for nearshore models and oil slick dynamics forced by deep water waves.

In 2008, I held a David Crighton Fellowship at DAMTP, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (UK), working with Prof. M.E. McIntyre on Lagrangian model (GLM) applied in coastal region.

In 2008 I did another step, I switched to the consulting world. I started working with a small high specialized company: DEAM s.r.l., based in Pisa (Italy). I was appointed as specialist engineer in sediment transport modeling and wave-induced shallow water circulation, contributing to several coastal engineering projects.

Four years later, I moved to Genoa joining Rina Group in the Oceanography and Marine Modeling Units, Oil & Gas Division. I took part to several exciting projects as both specialist engineer and project manager.

In Genoa I became a dad with three beautiful, lively and lovely kids!

It was in 2017 when I was appointed as Metocean Manager in Rina Consulting. I have been involved within many multidisciplinary projects with respect to the definition of metocean design parameters for the offshore engineering, development of debris flow modeling activities, nearshore circulation modeling studies, morphodynamics studies for coastal protection, sediment transport studies for pipeline design, preparation of technical documentation for tenders and revision of EU projects.

In 2019 the last, but not the least, step.

Interest and passion for offshore and coastal environments are still alive and move me on finding new challenges. As independent consultant, I am involved in new projects requiring expertise on metocean and sediment transport issues providing Client tailored Sea Solutions. I still have a long way to go and I can keep running longer...