Architect, PhD in Theory and Construction of Architecture, President at Francesco Morelli Foundation, the beneficial owner of Istituto Europeo di Design network: at IED he is the Academic Director for all the schools belonging to the group; he is ANVUR expert for AFAM System Assessment , consulting companies and Institutions.

Director of IED Turin until 2017, from 2008 to 2013 has been Director of the MSc Urban Design and Regeneration as well as MSc Digital Architectural Design at the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford (Manchester - UK) until 2013, where he was co-founder of MIND (Mediated Intelligence in Design) Research group.

He has been member of the scientific committee of the CRD-PVS (Documentation and Research centre in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries); member of Urban Quality Research Centre and ICT in Construction Research Centre (SOBE); consultant for the Chamber of Architects Turin (Italy) and member in several scientific boards such as Transmitting Sustainable City and Turin City of Design.

He has been appointed at the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) as Temporary Professor at the School of Architecture where he has taught Urban morphology, Architectural IT, Architectural Design and Urban Design studios at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. He has also been managing his own architectural firm in Turin between 1996 and 2006, where he has been consultant for private and public sector. He has published scientific contributions in the area of research of Digital Architectural Design, Urban Regeneration, Slum upgrading, Transdisciplinary design and Smart city.