Dr. Marcomini graduated from the University of Padua, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, and research associate at the Polytechnic of Zurich. He is a partner in several international and national research projects, an author/coauthor of over 300 papers and an editor and coauthor of two books.

He is a member of national and international advisory committees on chemical environmental quality, environmental risk assessment, definition and implementation of environmental quality standards, the master plan of contaminated mega-sites, etc. He is the unit leader of the 'Environmental Chemistry & Environmental risk assessment research team and a coordinator of the H2020 SUNSHINE project.