Education and Scientific Career

(Current affiliations: INAF, SAIt, SIF, SIGRAV, IAU, EAS, COSPAR, ICRANet, ISGRG)

• 2024- Director of INAF - OAS Bologna
  
  
• 2024- Lead Scientist appointed by ESA for M7 Phase A Study of the THESEUS space mission
  
  
• 2018-2021 Lead Scientist appointed by ESA for M5 Phase A Study of the THESEUS space mission
  
  
• 2018-2019 Member of the Board for Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
  
  
• 2017- Director of Research at INAF - OAS Bologna, Italy
  
  
• 2016-2018 Member of the Advisory Council of INAF - IASF Bologna
  
  
• 2016-2017 Senior Researcher at INAF - IASF Bologna, Italy
  
  
• 2011-2018 Member of the Faculty of the PhD Course in Physics at University of Ferrara
  
  
• 2011-2015 Member of the Board for Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
  
  
• 2009-2016 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)
  
  
• 2002-2016 Permanent Researcher 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)
  
  
• 1999 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
  
  
• 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