Curriculum Vitæ

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1994: International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Master in Mathematical Physics, 1991: International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Laurea in Physics, 1989: Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy

from 2010: Full Professor, Università di Bologna
2004-2010: Associate Professor, Università di Bologna (May 2010: "Idoneità" for Full Professorship)
2000-2004: Ricercatore, Università di Bologna (July 2002: "Idoneità" for Associate Professorship)
1998-2000: Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis.
1996-1998: Instructor, Princeton University
1995-1996: NATO-CNR Advanced Fellow, University of Virginia
before 1995: Visiting Scientist, Technische Universität Berli

Visiting Professor at:: UCD, Dublin, Ireland, July-August 2011; Schroedinger Institute, Dublin, Ireland, July 2010; Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany, July-August 2009; Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany, June-July 2008; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, July-August 2007

Schloeßmann Award 2000

Plenary Speaker at the 100TH STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE, "Looking Back, looking forward: a celebration of Statistical Mechanics": December 2008

Culture Award, Mercatello sul Metauro, August 2008

Board of Research Directors of the Istituto Cattaneo from 2011

Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Physics 2007-2012
Editorial Board of Advances in Mathematical Physics from 2009
Editorial Board of Quality and Quantity from 2010

Member of the Project: Competition and Cooperation in Biological and Social Systems (from 2010-2015).

Member of the Steering Committee of the project: Random Geometry of Large Interacting Systems and Statistical Physics (2010-2015)

Head of the project: Mathematical Methods in Social and Economical Sciences , (2007-2012)
Progetti Strategici Università di Bologna

Co-responsible with Stefano Ghirlanda of the EU Grant (Italian Node), fixth framework program, 2007-2009: Cultaptation