Alessandro is a chartered building engineer and architect with a strong interest in structural design, masonry structures and digital fabrication.  In 2013, he completed a Master’s Degree in Building Engineering and Architecture at the Politecnico di Bari (Italy), with an experimental thesis on aluminium-concrete composite materials for free-form structures, in collaboration with Juanjo Castellon (ETH Zurich).

In 2018, he started a PhD at BRG, focusing on developing computational tools for the structural assessment and design of unreinforced masonry structures using the Discrete Element Method, investigating the role of geometrical imperfections on their structural behaviour. 

In 2021, Alessandro took part as a structural designer and BRG project leader in the realisation of Striatus, an unreinforced masonry 3D-concrete-printed pedestrian bridge built in Venice, during the European Cultural Centre Architecture Biennial Exhibition 2021. 

From August 2021, he was Visiting Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley for six months, hosted by Prof. Matthew J. DeJong, where he expanded his knowledge on Discrete Element Modelling, working on the mechanical behaviour of unreinforced masonry spiral staircases.