Degree in Information Science Engineering (University of Lecce, Italy) and PhD in Operational Research (University of Calabria, Italy) with a dissertation on “Algorithms for problems of nesting of irregular shapes on irregular containers”. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Naples “Federico II” and at University of Salento. He was the responsible for the Course “Software for logistics and manufacturing systems” at University of Salento. Since 2001 he made his research in the field of simulation and optimization of logistics and manufacturing systems. He is one of the main author and designer of DEOS (Discrete Event Object-oriented Simulator), an open-source framework for development of simulators for the manufacturing systems. DEOS was funded by MIUR (FIRB RBNE013SWE, Architetture e Tecnologie informatiche per lo sviluppo ed evoluzione di software open-source per la simulazione a componenti distribuiti, orientate al settore manifatturiero). This research was also important for the analysis of complex health systems and for development of a simulator in which the time is modeled as a fuzzy variable (fuzzy simulations). He made an important research in the field of nesting of irregular surfaces that, at the time, was one of the few work in computational geometry dealing with the placement of non convex polygons with quality descriptor inside. This work has been validated in an industrial context and was published in acts of an international conference. He designed and developed a number of decision support system for the opimization of the raw materials utilization, for the creation of optimal production orders and for scheduling of production orders to the workers. His research area covered the fields of computer vision systems for manufacturing processes, automated inspection processes and use of nesting algorithm in process flow optimization. Currently he works at University of Salento, in Technical and Technological Department.