Raffaello Lena was born on 2 September 1959. He has published lunar articles in Icarus, Planetary Space Science, LPSC conferences, JALPO, Selenology, JBAA other than in American and Italian magazines. Over the last decade the Geologic Lunar Research Group that he founded has produced dozens of published studies of lunar domes, faults and transient phenomena. He has been interested in the Moon since he was 10 years old and has progressed from a small Newtonian telescope to high quality scopes (6” Maksutov Cassegrain and a 5” refractor). His first interest in lunar studies is represented by the lunar domes analysis and their classification. He is the coauthor of the book Lunar domes properties and mode of formation published by Springer. He works also on interpretation of TLP and has developed procedures for interpretation of a lunar flash in order to identify if it is of real impact nature. He has been the first Italian to document a lunar impact because it was simultaneously recorded also in Switzerland from other two observing sites (independent and simultaneous observation with a distance of the observatories > 500 km). Whenever possible he listens to jazz and explores Italy’s volcanoes and mountainous geology. He has a doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Rome and currently works on food safety.