I was born in Macerata, Italy, on January 5th, 1986. After a humanistic high school, I received my degree in medicine and surgery and my licence to practice from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, in 2011. From 2008 to 2012, I attended the Department of Surgery of the Policlinico “Agostino Gemelli” in Rome, where I joined surgical activities and research programs in the fields of transplantation, bariatric and metabolic surgery.

In 2012, I entered the 6-year general surgery residency program of the University of L’Aquila, Italy, and I started my first rotations in the General Surgery and Transplant Unit of the “San Salvatore” Hospital, in L’Aquila, where I received training especially in the fields of general surgery and kidney transplantation.

In 2013, I earned a competence degree in ultrasonography from the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB), after interests in the use of Doppler ultrasonography for transplantation and intraoperative ultrasonography for oncologic liver surgery.

Afterwards, I attended the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Transplant Unit of the Ospedali Riuniti “Umberto I – Giovanni Maria Lancisi – Gaspare Salesi” in Ancona, Italy, to obtain further experience in oncologic surgery and, then, the Unit of General Surgery and Abdominal Transplantation “T.E. Starzl” in Brussels, with Prof. J. Lerut. Indeed, my training was largely and purportedly shaped around oncologic surgery and solid organ transplantation.

Since 2017, I have been completing my PhD programme within the Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, and the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy. The project I am developing deals with a model of small-for-size syndrome after living-donor liver transplantation.

I fluently speak Italian, English and French.

I am a member of the Orders of Physicians of Rome and of Brussels, the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB), the Italian Society for Organ Transplantation (SITO), the Belgian Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL), the Royal Belgian Society for Surgery (RBSS), the Belgian Association of Surgical Trainees (BAST), and the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT).