From 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the Verso group and he participated to the Chorochronous and Xyleme projects. Since 2002 he has been participating to several projects, whose main topics are computer science (such as Grid computing, geographical and temporal databases, and XML views) and bioinformatics (spectra data analysis for cancer detection, proteomics, and prediction of protein structures). His main research interests are XML and semistructured databases, data modeling, spatial and multidimensional databases, protein matching structure, protein structure prediction, and data management on grid computing.