I was born in 1973 and I graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1998 (Laurea degree) from the University of Pisa, where I also received the PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 2002.
From 2002 to 2006, I was PostDoc at the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of Pisa. I was Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2015 and Associate Professor from 2015 to 2020. Since 2020, I am Full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Section of the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa. From November 2022 until October 2025, I was President of the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa.
My main research activities are within the area of process modeling, control and optimization, and I teach Process Dynamics and Control, Process Sythensis and Simulation and Advanced Process Control in the MS program in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pisa.
I am Senior Editor of Journal of Process Control, and Chair of the IFAC TC 2.4 Optimal Control.
My research interests include model predictive control systems, process simulation and optimization, numerical optimization, multivariable systems identification, performance monitoring, and industrial implementations of advanced control systems.