Doctor juris from the ‘Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna’ in Pisa. He is currently a professor at the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza of the University of Messina (Italy), where he teaches criminal procedural law, evidentiary law and European and Transnational Criminal Justice. He has been Experienced Researcher for the A. von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the editorial and scientific committees of various criminal justice journals, has founded and is Editor in Chief of the Collection of Legal Studies in International, Comparative and European Criminal Law from Springer International Publishing. His main areas of research include the general theory of the process, evidentiary law, European criminal justice and comparative criminal law.