He received the M.Sc. in Food Science and Human Nutrition from University of Milan and the Ph.D. in Food Science from University of Valencia. During his pre-doctoral stage, he has been working at the IATA-CISC and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Albany, California, U.S.A.). Through the internship at Royal DSM (Delft, Netherlands), he focused on the high-moisture shear processes involved in the protein texturization