Born in 1953, graduated in Physics in 1977 at Pavia University , specialized in Medical Statistics in 1984. He is associate professor at Pavia University since 2000 and qualified in 2014 to function as full professor of Medical Statistics.

I have worked in the fields of psychiatric epidemiology, clinical trial analysis, multiple testing bias correction methods, traffic accident reconstruction and analysis, Monte Carlo simulation to investigate the behaviour of statistical techniques, when used in conditions where their theoretical foundation breaks down (method robustness).