My research is focused on the physics of the intra-cluster medium, its chemical enrichment, and its evolution by means of X-ray observations. During my PhD, my research was devoted to the study of the metal distribution and enrichment processes in the ICM. The last few years of my research, however, have been mainly devoted to the study of scaling properties for a complete sample of galaxy groups. Recent astrophysical results stressed the importance of close collaborations between different wavelength observations and so I'm also interested in the optical, radio, and SZ properties of clusters and groups.