He grew up in the heart of the Italian Alp grazing cows in the mountains. He received his Italian Laurea in Animal Science and his PhD in Ruminant Physiopathology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy. He worked as post-doctorate at the Pennsylvania State University (USA) and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) where he specialized on functional nutriphysiogenomics in livestock and porcine mesenchymal stem cells for maxillofacial bone repair. His main research interest is nutrigenomics in dairy cows.