Riccardo obtained his Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnologies from the Università degli Studi di Siena in 2021, followed by a second-level Master’s in Omics Data Analysis from the Università degli Studi di Padova in 2024.

Since 2023, he has been working as a bioinformatician under the supervision of Professor Valeria Cento, analyzing sequencing data in the context of multidrug-resistant bacteria. He is currently pursuing the National PhD Programme in One Health Approaches to Infectious Diseases and Life Science Research.