Roberto is a Pharmaceutical Chemist. After his BSc in Italy, he worked at the CNRS in France and at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, before moving to the University of Manchester, UK, to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology. After a stay as a post-doc at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), he started at Kratos Analytical Ltd. in 2012 working as a Global MALDI Applications Scientist. Since 2015, he is managing the Global Sales Department for Shimadzu MALDI Division.