Associate professor in Plant pathology and Food Safety at the Department DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy) since 1991. Assistant researcher at the Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura, Rome in 1985, and at the Instituto Sperimentale per la Patologia Vegetale, Rome from 1986 to 1991. Teaching activity at the University of Tuscia in the last decade was centered on sustainability in crop production and plant pathology of horticultural crops and grape and control methods of food chains and food safety. Main research areas: The role of soil fertility in plant productivity and health in horticultural crops in both open field and greenhouse. Role of beneficial microorganisms in plant health. Induced resistance against fungal pathogens in plants related to beneficial microorganisms and soil fertility. Accumulation of defence compounds in plants in response to pathogen's attacks. Coordinator and principal investigator in many research projects on horticultural crops and cereals. Author and co-author of more than 100 publications on scientific and technical journals (complete list at http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=xDHFC-0AAAAJ&hl=it&oi=a).