Graduated with an instrumental work of thesis at the department of Industrial Chemistry of the University of Turin (Italy) in 1993, implementing buffer gas systems for Ion Trap Mass spectrometers, and after a one year research project in analytical chemistry, developing machine tools cooling lubricants pollutants detection systems at Fiat Research Center (Italy), Riccardo has led a project for the development of a resilient fluorinated polymer for the informatics industry at M.V.O. Group (Italy).
Since 1997 he has been European Spectroscopy Products manager for Italian and Swiss markets in Renishaw (UK and Italy), and now for Italy, Spain and Portugal, with particular focus on Raman spectroscopy applied to cultural heritage materials and gemmology.