A medical doctor with over 30 years of experience, he has dedicated his work to the study and analysis of the neuroscience of addiction, in clinical and research settings. Now (2021) he is the director of Neuroscience Clinical Center & TMS Unit in Verona Italy. He has directed and funded the most important Italian national project on neuroscience on addiction and neuroimmaging, toxicology research and neurobiology. He has been instrumental in collaborating with research institutes from the US government (NIH.NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse - Bethesda, USA) with which he created and signed agreements regarding the development of common projects and interactions in the area of research, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of addictions (at the White House in Washington D.C. in 2011). He has covered high institutional positions for the Italian Government’s National Public Health System as Head of the Department of Drug Control Policy (DPA) of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, National Coordinator of Drugs in Europe (EU Council) on behalf of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and member of the Horizontal Drugs Group (HDG) of the Council of Europe - Brussels. In addition, he was on the Board of Directors of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) as full Italian Representative, and Representative of the delegation of the Italian Government to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations (Vienna). He founded and directed the National School on Addiction at the School of Public Administration of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and is Director in charge of the "Italian Journal on Addiction", in collaboration with the United Nations (UNICRI). He founded and directed the National Early Warning System (NEWS) on Drugs. He was also appointed Honorary Judge of the US Courts on drugs (Special Courts) and collaborated with United Nation Interegional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI – Vienna) and with United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC – Vienna). He is author of over 200 scientific publications, member of the Italian Association “Group of Italian Forensic Toxicologists- GTFI”, Addiction Neuroscience and Forensic Toxicology Senior Consultant, and professor lecturer of PFPC Master at the University of Florence. Director of advisory and steering group of URITo.N. - Unit for Research and Innovation on Forensic Toxicology, Neuroscience of Addiction and new drugs. University of Florence DSS