He received a M.S. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) and a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Brescia. He is a co-author of more than 100 papers in the research areas of knowledge representation, knowledge-based systems and automated reasoning, focusing in particular on argumentation theory, fuzzy constraints and temporal reasoning. In 2006, he has awarded the “Marco Somalvico” Artificial Intelligence prize by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) as an outstanding Italian young researcher in the AI field. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Argument and Computation”.