Full professor of Viticulture and Past chair of the Department of Sustainable Crop Production of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza (Italy) since 1 November 2014. Coordinator of the Master of Science in Sustainable Viticulture and Enology).
He has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers, 174 of which published in international, refereed journals with an IF of 43.
Invited speaker at 52 conferences worldwide, he has been awarded of the “Perdisa” prize in 1994, the “Enotecnici” Prize in 2004, the Rudolph Hermanns Foundation Prize in 2011. Winner of the “2013 Best Paper Award” from the American Society of Enology and Viticulture.
Peer reviewer for 21 scientific journals, Associate editor for the Amer. J. Enol. Vitic. since 1 January 2006 and Chief Editor of the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research since 1 September 2023. He has been member of the national evaluation panel for assessment of the quality of research in Italy for the 2011-2014 time span and he is having the same responsibility for the 2023-2025 session.
