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I was born in Venice, Italy on February 5, 1966. I received a master's degree in Antique Instruments at the Venice Conservatory in 1982, but later I quit music to study Physics at the University of Padova. I received a Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics in 1999 with a thesis based on data analysis for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration experiment.
 After receiving my PhD, I worked for two years at Harvard University as a Post-Doctoral fellow, building a part of the CDF II muon detector. In 2001 I returned to Italy, where I worked as a researcher for Padova University. I continued to collaborate with the CDF experiment, where I recently took the lead role in a working group that is producing corrections for the measurement of hadronic jets, which are needed for the reconstruction of high-mass particle decays such as the top quark.
 I married my wife Mariarosa, a high school teacher of Latin and Greek, in 1998. We have two children, Filippo and Ilaria. When I am not busy with work I play chess in the Internet Chess Club. I am also an amateur astronomer, and I collaborate actively with the Meteor Group of the Italian Amateur Astronomer Union.
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