Education and Scientific Career

• 2011- Member of the Board for Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
  
  
• 2011- Member of the Faculty of the PhD Course in Physics at University of Ferrara
  
  
• 2009- Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet), Pescara, Italy
  
  
• 2007-2008 Member of the Space Astrophysics Working Group of the Italian Space Agency (ASI)
  
  
• 2002- Permanent research staff member at INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Bologna (IASF Bologna, formerly a CNR institute), Bologna - Italy
  
  
• 1998-2001 Research contract, X-ray Astronomy group, Istituto T.E.S.R.E. / CNR, Bologna - Italy
  Contract Responsible: Prof. F. Frontera (Universita' di Ferrara and Istituto TESRE/CNR, Bologna)
  
  
• 1995-1998 Ph.D. degree in Astronomy, Università "La Sapienza" di Roma - Italy, certificated on 06/05/1999
  Thesis: The BeppoSAX Gamma Ray Burst Monitor response matrix and its application to the study of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
  Advisor: Dr. E. Costa (IAS/CNR - Roma)
  Tutor: Prof. G.C. Perola (Terza Universita` di Roma)
  Research activity performed at IAS/CNR - Tor Vergata - Roma and partially at Istituto TESRE/CNR - Bologna - Italy
  
  
• [1993-1995] Programmer and Analyst in C, COBOL, Visual Basic, SQL, Natural on UNIX and MS Windows platforms for Carpi Informatica, Carpi (MO), Italy (1993-1994), Kyros s.r.l., Modena, Italy (1994-1995), Pre&Stampa s.r.l., Bologna, Italy (1995)
  
  
• 1993 Certificate of Specialist in programming in UNIX environments released by COFIMP (COnsorzio per la Formazione delle piccole e medie IMPrese), Bologna - Italy, 1100 hours course co-funded by UE and Regione Emilia Romagna
  
  
• [1991-1992] Civil service (substitutive of the compulsory military service) at Comune di Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy
  
  
• 1985-1991 Laurea (= Bachelor + Master) degree in Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Bologna - Italy, on July 19, 1991
  Thesis: Fotometro millimetrico a 3 canali per lo studio dell'isotropia della radiazione cosmica di fondo
  Advisor: Prof. G. Palumbo
  Tutor: Dr. S.T. Chase
  Research activity performed at Istituto TESRE/CNR - Bologna - Italy