He graduates in Computer Science at the University of Milano (Italy, 1989) and receives a PhD in Psychology from Nottingham University (UK, 1993) on studies about Distributed Artificial Intelligence. He works four years as lecturer and researcher at University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) and then in an Italian Government funded research project on e-learning. He is currently a lecturer and researcher within the Innovation Technologies Department at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), and member of the new joint SUPSI-USI (University of Southern Switzerland) elearning laboratory (Elab). He is also collaborating with the Department of Computer Science and Communication at the University of Insubria in Varese (Italy) since 2001 for teaching XML courses. He is teaching and disseminating XML technology since 1998 and is actively applying it to different domains from elearning to content management. His main interests and research areas concern the XML technology and new web standards, elearning systems and standards, knowledge representation, AI and agents, and new information and communication technologies. He is author of various international publications in some of these areas.