Cristian graduated in 2001 from the Veterinary School of Perugia, Italy. He worked as a general practitioner in private practices and within the surgery department of Perugia Veterinary School, until 2003.

From 2004 to 2007 he completed a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery in Valdinievole Veterinary Clinic-Italy. He spent most of the 2006 abroad in continuing education. In September 2007 Cristian was awarded the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Neurology. He remained at Valdinievole until the beginning of 2010 and he then joined Davies Veterinary Specialists till the beginning of 2012.

At the moment he’s working at Diagnostica Piccoli Animali, in Zugliano (VI) as a clinical neurologist and neurosurgeon and as a MR consultant for other veterinary centers in Northern Italy. He is author of national and international papers and speaker in many congresses all around the world; he is the president of the Italian Society of Veterinary Neurology and a member of the European Society of Veterinary Neurology.

His professional fields of interest are spinal-brain surgery and MRI-neuroimaging.