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. Canada Research Chair - Electronic Structure of Solids, CRC Program (10/2002- ).
6. CIAR Scholar - CIAR Quantum Materials Program (01/2004- ).
7. Sloan Research Fellow - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (02/2007).
8. Associate Professor - Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC (07/2007- ).

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

Teachings:

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 !