He is Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Department of Healthcare Surveillance and Bioethics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC). He teaches Bioethics at UCSC “A. Gemelli” School of Medicine (Rome) and at UCSC School of Economics (Rome). His main research fields/expertise in Bioethics are: Ethical domain in Health Technology Assessment (HTA); Ethics Committees; Clinical Ethics. He is member of the following bodies: Board of Directors of Italian Society of HTA (SIHTA); HTA International (HTAi) and past-cochair of HTAi Interest Group on Ethics; Board of the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME); Pontifical Academy for Life. Particularly in HTA Ethical domain, he collaborates/collaborated within the following EU Research Projects: European Network for HTA (EUnetHTA) (2006-2021); Integrated health technology assessment for evaluating complex technologies (INTEGRATE-HTA) (2013-15); Values in doing assessments of healthcare technologies (VALIDATE) (2018-2021); Intelligent digital tools for screening of brain connectivity and dementia risk estimation in people affected by mild cognitive impairment (AI-MIND) (2021-25); Novel health care strategies for melanoma in children, adolescents and young adults” (MELCAYA) (2023-26); The first European Digital Health Technology Assessment framework co-created by all stakeholders along the value chain (EDiHTA) (2024-27). He has contributed to the introduction of the HTA Ethical domain in Italy, collaborating within several national HTA processes joined with UCSC Altems Advisory; UCSC VIHTALI; National Institute of Health (ISS); AgeNAS. He contributed to the implementation of the Ethical domain in HTA function at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS since 2008. He is author/coauthor of more than 300 international/national publications.