Education

October 1988 - Ph. D. in Theoretical Particle Physics - SISSA - Trieste, Italy
Title of Thesis: "N-String Vertex in the Operatorial Formalism"
Advisor: Prof. Paolo Di Vecchia (NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark).

October 1986 - Magister Philosophiae in Theoretical Particle Physics (summa cum laude) - SISSA - Trieste, Italy
Title of Thesis: "Scattering amplitudes for bosonic open and closed strings".
Advisor: Prof. Paolo Di Vecchia (NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark).

March 1984 - Laurea Degree in Physics (summa cum laude) - University "Federico II" - Naples, Italy
Title of Thesis: "Non-Perturbative Aspects in Quantum Field Theory. Lattice formulation and large N-limit of non-linear sigma-models O(N)".
Advisors: Proff. Francesco Nicodemi and Roberto Pettorino.

Fellowships

October 2009 - "Bruno Rossi" Fellow at MIT - Center for Theoretical Physics, Cambridge Mass - USA

November 2010 - "Bruno Rossi" Fellow at MIT - Center for Theoretical Physics, Cambridge Mass - USA 

October 1988 / September 1990 - INFN Post-Doctoral Fellow
NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 1986 / September 1988 - Angelo Della Riccia Foundation Fellow
NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 1984 / October 1988 - SISSA Ph. D. Fellow.

Positions

INFN Staff Researcher since December 1st, 1989 until April 30th, 2024.

Contract Professor of STRING THEORY at Naples University "Federico II" from the academic year 2010/11 to 2016/17.

INFN Senior Associate since May 1st, 2024.