He received a M.Sc. (1994) and a PhD (1998) in computational chemistry from the University of Pisa, and has been a postdoctoral research assistant in computational physics at the Universities of Bristol (until 2000) and of Bielefeld (until 2002). His research interests are in computational statistical mechanics, especially soft condensed matter theory and complex systems, using classical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation of liquids on massively parallel architectures, molecular graphics, and stochastic processes.