He is a tenured Full Professor of Nuclear and Biomedical Engineering, as well as of Medical Physics, at the University of Pisa (Italy), where he is vice-chair of the PhD program in Nuclear Engineering and heads the Nuclear Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory.
He is President of the Research and Development Board of the International Program on Protection from CBRNe events at the University of Roma Tor Vergata; he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response.