Citizenship: Italian.

Marital status: Married with 2 children (Matteo, Luca).

Employment and Honors:

1. Graduate Student - Dept. of Physics, University of Groningen (11/1994-03/1999).
2. Postdoctoral Fellow - Dept. of Physics, Stanford University (04/1999-03/2001).
3. Research Associate - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (04/2001-07/2002).
4. Assistant Professor - Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC (08/2002-06/2007).
5. Associate Professor - Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC (07/2007).

1. Canada Research Chair - Electronic Structure of Solids, CRC Program (10/2002).
2. CIAR Scholar - CIAR Quantum Materials Program (01/2004-03/2010).
3. Sloan Research Fellow - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (02/2007).
4. Kavli Fellow - USA National Academy of Science (11/2008).
5. UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship - Killam Trusts (01/2009).
6. UBC Killam Research Prize - Killam Trusts (01/2010).
7. CIFAR Fellow - CIFAR Quantum Materials Program (03/2010).
8. E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship - NSERC (02/2011).
9. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award - Humboldt Foundation (03/2012).

Research Activity:

Area: Condensed Matter
Field: Electronic Structure of Novel Complex Systems and Nanostructured Materials
Topics: Strongly correlated electron systems, low-dimensional systems and nanostructures, transition-metal oxides, metal-insulator transition, magnetism, orbital ordering, high-Tc superconductivity, optical and photoelectron spectroscopy, ARPES.

Conferences and Seminars Organization:

1. Condensed Matter Seminars 2003/2004, UBC [Fall 2003, Spring 2004]
2. Condensed Matter Seminars 2004/2005, UBC [Fall 2004, Spring 2005]
3. Surface Canada 2004, Vancouver, Canada
4. Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors 2004, Sitges, Spain
5. ARPES2005-New Frontiers, Vancouver, Canada
6. CAP 2005, Vancouver, Canada
7. LEES 2008, Vancouver, Canada
8. LEES 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
9. LEES 2012, Napa Valley, CA
10. M2S 2012, Washington, DC

Teaching:
2011 Summer Phys 250 Introduction to Modern Physics
2011 Spring Phys 409 Experimental Physics
2010 Winter Phys 409 Experimental Physics
2008 Winter Phys 309 Electricity and Magnetism Lab
2007 Winter Phys 309 Electricity and Magnetism Lab
2006 Winter Phys 309 Electricity and Magnetism Lab
2006 Summer Phys 270 Mechanics II
2006 Spring Phys 450 Quantum Mechanics
2005 Summer Phys 270 Mechanics II
2005 Spring Phys 450 Quantum Mechanics
2004 Spring Phys 450 Quantum Mechanics
2004 Spring Phys 153 Elements of Physics (Lab Instructor)
2003 Spring Phys 450 Quantum Mechanics
2003 Spring Phys 153 Elements of Physics (Lab Instructor)

Happy End !