Born in Milan in 1941, he graduated in 1966 in Mechanical Engineering at Milan Polytechnics. He is Professor of Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering and he studies the development of the industrial product, scientific and technical communication, mechanics history. He is a member of the Board of the Lombard museum of Agriculture History in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano and of the Group for Engineering History of Copi (Conference of Engineering Faculties Deans) and he is a member of the Aipi (Italian Association of industrial Planners).