Medically-qualified Research and Clinical Microbiologist. Licensed for practicing Medicine and Clinical Microbiology in the EU and Switzerland. Served as Full Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Italian Universities of Pisa, Sassari, Pavia, and Insubria. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reims and Tokyo. Director of Clinical Microbiology Laboratories since 1985. Mentor of over 50 PhD candidates and postdocs. Has been responsible for financial (7 ME turnover), quality, and strategic management of a Clinical and Research Microbiology Laboratory in Varese whose activities grew by 10-20% year over year. In 2015, the lab was renewed with state-of-the art technologies and biological safety up to the BSL3 level. Research: viral etiology of chronic disorders (diabetes, post-polio syndrome, chronic cardiomyopathy, autoimmune thyroid conditions); molecular microbiology. Funding from the Italian Ministry of Health, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (New York, USA), the University of Miami (Miami, USA), Post-Polio Health International (St. Louis, USA), The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), the RIKEN Institute (Tokyo, Japan), the Norwegian Research Council (Oslo, Norway). Studies for Pharma Companies and CROs. Bibliometric data: scientific papers in peer-reviewed Journals: >250, Hirsch-index: 57, H-index last 5 years: 28. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3008-212