Full Professor of Criminal procedure at University of Genoa, Italy.
Team Leader of Genoa at the research project DIGIRIGHTS, funded by the European Commission-DG JUST.
He has experience as a practicing criminal lawyer in Italy. He specialises in European criminal procedure. His main areas of research are appellate remedies, the right to interpretation and translation, and plea bargaining.
Author of more than 150 scientific publications (monographs, articles, essays in collected works) in Italian and international journals.