Fulvio Marsilio was born in Bari on 20 december 1960.
He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1985 and obtained a degree in "Prophylaxis in infectious diseases of animals" from the School for the Scientific Research at Brescia in 1986, while working at the Virology and Molecular Biology Laboratories of the Istituto Zooprofilattico of Brescia.
He obtained a PhD in Veterinary Parasitology from the University of Bari in 1989.
From 1990 to 1994 he worked at the Institute of Infectious Diseases of Animals of the Bari Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and since 1994 he is researcher in infectious animal diseases at the Termano Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
In November 1996, he attended the Institut für Virologie der Tierärztlichen Hochschule of Hannover (Germany), where he worked on the biomolecular typing of canine distemper virus strains.
Currently, he teaches infectious animal diseases (including infectious diseases in companion animals and livestock) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Teramo. He is full professor in infectious diseases of animals and director of post-graduate school on Animal health, farming and production at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Teramo.
Since December 2005, he is Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Teramo. He is member of the Regional Board for Zooprophylaxis at the Veterinary Services of the Abruzzo Region. His research interests include the aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and prophylaxis of infectious diseases of dogs, cats and sheep.