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 Directors of the Istituto Cattaneo from 2011

Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Physics from 2007
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