He authored or co-authored over 200 science papers in the field of power electrical engineering.
[1][2] Fellow of IEEE[3] for contributions to analysis and modeling of lightning originated phenomena in power systems and IET.
[6] Together with prof. F. Rachidi [3] of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, he has developed a computer code for the appraisal of lightning-induced voltages in electrical network, called LIOV,[7] which is quoted in IEEE standards.
[9] His research is currently focused on:[10] Nucci received a degree with honors from the University of Bologna, Italy in 1982.
He serves as the chair of Study Committee C4 in Cigre International Council on Large Electric Systems.