Pierluigi currently works at the Department of Internal Medicine, Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. He does research about Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Obstructive and Restrictive Respiratory, as well as, in Neuromuscular Diseases. His researches are also focused on Pulmonary Hypertension and on Cardiovascular involvement in Pulmonary Diseases, Sleep Disorders, Exhaled as well as Serum biological markers of Pulmonary Diseases, Internal Medicine.