He graduated in 2000 (cum laude) at the Politecnico di Milano in Civil Engineering and he received the Ph.D. degree, cum laude, in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research fellow at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics, joining an international research group with focus on solid mechanics in cryogenic conditions. He spent, in 2008 and 2010, two periods of research at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as visiting scientist. His scientific contributions to the field of MEMS focus on theoretical and computational aspects of adhesion and multi-physics behavior.