Date of birth: November 7, 1969
Place of birth: Voghera (PV), Italy
1989-1993: Degree in physics at the Università di Pavia, Italy
1995-1998: Ph.D in Physics at the Università di Milano, Italy
1998-2000: Post-doc at the CEA, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France
2000-2002: Post-doc at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Como
2002: Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Como
2002-2015: Researcher at Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Sede di Como, Italy
From 2015: Associate professor at Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Sede di Como, Italy
Institutions visited for temporary research periods:
CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France: 1997, 1998, 2000 (``poste rose'', three months), 2001, 2002 (``poste rose'', three months), 2003, 2004.
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA: 2001.
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France: 2006.
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: 2007-2011.
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan: 2008, 2009.
University of Tokyo, Japan: 2009-2011.
National University of Singapore: 2009, 2012.
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 2010.
CEA, Saclay, France: 2011-2013.
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 2012.
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2013.
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2016.
Xiamen University, China, 2016.
Singapore University of Technology and Design: 2017.