He was born in Milan in 1963. He graduated in Physics and in 1991 became part of the editorial staff of “Le Scienze”, which is the Italian edition of Scientific American. In 2006, he became editor-in-chief of Le Scienze and Mind. Since December 2010, he is the director of National Geographic Italia and since 2018 of National Geographic Traveler. Over the last years, he has been collaborating as journalist and photographer with national and international newspapers and periodicals. He is the author of “Heisenberg and the quantum revolution” (Le Scienze, 2000) and co-author of the three-volumes work “The Unesco’s world heritage” (White Star, 2002-2004, reprinted in 2012) and of “The cities of the world” (White Star, 2005). He was awarded the Voltolino award for scientific dissemination (2001), the Grand Prix by the French Association travelling writers (2008), the Ippocrate award by the Italian Unione nazionale scientifica di informazione (2010) and the Capo d’Orlando award (2014). In 2016, the asteroid 239105 was named after him.