Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

e poi perdere ogni tanto ci ha il suo miele, e se dicono che vinco stan mentendo,
perche' quelle poche volte che busso a bastoni mi rispondono con spade o con denari.
La ragione diamo, e il vincere ai coglioni, oppure ai bari:
resteremo sempre a un punto dai campioni, tredici e' pari, ... (Francesco Guccini)

• 1987-1989 Compulsory Civil Service in alternative to Military Service

• In Jan. 1990 he obtains the Laurea (Master of Science) in Physics at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Firenze (mark 110/110 cum laude)
  with a thesis entitled : ``Spatio-Temporal Chaos in One Dimensional Lattice'' (supervisor: Dr. A. Politi)

• 1991-1993 - University of Firenze - PhD course in Theoretical Physics

• Nov. 1993 - Oct. 1994: Physics Teacher - Istituto Tecnico per Geometri "A.Gramsci" - Prato (Italy)
  

• In September 1994, he obtains the Ph.D. title at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Firenze
  with a thesis entitled : ``Microscopic Dynamics of Simple and Molecular Liquids'' (supervisor: Dr. U. Balucani)

• Oct. 1994 - Oct. 1996: Marie-Curie Post-Doc Fellow - Dept. of Theoretical Physics of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
  (scientific advisor: Prof. Dr. P. Grassberger) Research Topics: ``Multifractal Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Chaos''

• Jan. 1997 - Jun. 1998 : MURST Post-Doc Fellow - Energetics Dept. - University of Firenze (Italy)
  (scientific advisors: Prof. S. Ruffo and Prof. A. Pasquali) Research Topics: ``Phase Transitions for Systems Out of Equilibrium''

• Jul. 1998-Jul. 2000: INFM Post-Doc Fellow - Research Unity INFM of Firenze (Italy)
  (scientific advisor: Prof. R. Livi) Research Topics: ``Protein Folding''

• March 1999 - Visiting scientist - Erwin Schroedinger Institut Wien (Austria)

• Jul. 2000-Jun. 2001: Research Associate - Dept. of Physics - University "La Sapienza" - Rome (Italy)
  (scientific advisor: Prof. A. Vulpiani) Research Topics: ``Turbulence and Transport in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems''

• Jun. 2001 - Aug. 2003 : Part-Time Physics Teacher - Istituto Tecnico Industriale "T. Buzzi" - Prato (Italy)
  

• Sept. 2001 - Dec. 2002 : Research Associate Energetics Dept. - University of Firenze
  Research Topics: "Chaos and localization in classical and quantum mechanics" within a MURST-COFIN00 project.

• Nov. 2001 - Dec. 2002 : Research Associate - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
  Research Topics: "Modelization of the Dynamics of Single Proteins'' in collaboration with the Biofotonics Laboratory

• 2001/2002 - Visiting professor - Chemistry Dept. of the University of Aix-Marseille III (St. Jerome) - Marseille (France).

• Sept. 2003 - 2004: Research Associate - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
  Research Topics: ``Dynamics of Networks''

• 14 Jan. 2004 - 31 Decenber 2005 : Staff Scientist - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
  

• 01 January 2006 - present : Staff Scientist - Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR

• March-April 2006 - Visiting scientist - Institute for Nonlinear Science La Jolla, University of California (USA)

• September 2007 - Visiting professor - Centre de Physique Theorique - Universite' de la Mediterranee -- Aix-Marseille II Luminy - Marseille (France)

• March-April 2008 - Visiting scientist - WIAS Berlin (Germany)

• April-May 2010 - Visiting professor - Aarhus University - Physics and Astronomy Department Aahrus (Denmark)

• October-December 2011 - VELUX Visiting professor - Aarhus University - Physics and Astronomy Department Aahrus (Denmark)

• 01 January 2012 - present : Coordinator of the research group "Dynamical Behaviour of Complex Systems"
  composed by 12 researchers, 4 Post-Docs, 4 PhD and 2 Master students within Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR

• August-September 2012 - Visiting professor - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany)

• November 2012 - Visiting professor - Aarhus University - Physics and Astronomy Department Aahrus (Denmark)

• 01 January 2013 - present : Coordinator of the Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory in Neuroscience
  (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

• November 2013 - Visiting professor - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany)

• August 2014 - Visiting professor - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany)

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