He joined many European Projects and finalized research projects of Italian National research Council and Italian Ministry of Education and Research, both as team member and scientific coordinator. He also obtained several research grants from “Italian” Companies, such as Fiat, Solvay Solexis, Pirelli, Ducati Motor Holding. He is member of the Italian Society of Macromolecules (AIM, where he was member of the Management Committee from 2011 to 2015) and of the Polymeric Materials Unit at Politecnico di Torino of the Italian Consortium on Materials Science and Technology (INSTM); he joined the “Nanofun-poly” Network of Excellence. He is currently in the Management Committee of Flaretex MP1105 COST Action (“Sustainable flame retardancy for textiles and related materials based on nanoparticles substituting conventional chemicals”), where he is also coordinating the activities of the working group on Novel Flame Retardants. His main research activities include the synthesis of new reactive oligomers and their photopolymerization, the modification of polymers and coatings with polar or fluorinated structures, their physico-chemical and thermo-mechanical characterization and the investigation of the structure-property relationships. At present he is involved in the synthesis and characterization of nanocomposite structures, namely hybrid organic-inorganic coatings (ceramers) and polymeric nanocomposites containing phyllosilicates, alumina, graphene and graphene-like fillers. He is also investigating the fire retardancy of plastic substrates and textiles provided by exploiting surface engineering methods, based on the formation of sol-gel derived oxidic phases or layer-by-layer assemblies.