Full Professor in the scientific-disciplinary sector FIS/01, Experimental Physics, he teaches Physics courses at the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Salerno. He is a member of the Department of Physics, of which he is a member of the Board. He has been a Scientific Associate at CERN in Geneva since 1986 and, since 2008, has been the Head of the Salerno Linked Group of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Since January 2011, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Physical Society (SIF). His scientific research activity is mainly focused on the field of experimental nuclear and subnuclear physics and the development of particle detectors for high-energy physics. He has been involved in numerous international scientific collaborations that have led to important high-energy physics experiments, at some of the world’s largest nuclear physics laboratories such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, where some of the world’s largest particle accelerators are in operation, and the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories in L’Aquila. He is the author of over 350 scientific articles, published in highly prestigious journals in the field of subnuclear physics and nuclear and subnuclear measurement instrumentation. The scientific results of greatest interest concern the physics of heavy quarks in proton-proton collisions, ultra-high energy collisions between electrons and protons with particular reference to the study of the structure of the proton and possible substructures of quarks, and ultrarelativistic collisions between heavy ions. He has made significant contributions to the design of new particle detectors for use on large experimental apparatus. He is currently coordinating the subnuclear physics group of the Department of Physics at the University of Salerno and is the local head of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration, involved in the ongoing experiment at CERN, with the help of the largest particle accelerator in the world: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).