He is one of the developers of Semantic Turkey and VocBench, https://vocbench.uniroma2.it/, and, currently, the AGROVOC (https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/) technical expert at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He is also part of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at Tor Vergata (ART, http://art.uniroma2.it/) since 2007 and his research interests are Knowledge Representation and Ontology engineering. His PhD thesis was about the design and development of CODA (Computer-aided Ontology Development Architecture), an architecture and a framework that extends the unstructured information management framework UIMA to support the generation of RDF data.