Director of the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DiSVA) at Polytechnic University of Marche. Chair of "Ecotoxicology" and of "Biological and Ecological Risk Assessment”, Editor-in-Chief of Marine Environmental Research, delegate for Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) within Horizon Missions sub-group Healthy Oceans. He is an expert on environmental contamination, ecotoxicology, impact of dredging and off-shore activities, ecological risk assessment, emerging pollutants including pharmaceuticals and microplastics in the marine environment. He has been responsible for field activities on distribution of microplastics in marine food webs within the EPHEMARE project, Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems, funded by JPI Oceans (2015-2018), he is Coordinator of the international Project RESPONSE (JPI Oceans, 2020-2023), and of the national project PRIN-EMME (2020-2023).