Education and Qualifications

2014 - Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Physics.
1989 - Ph.D. in Physics (University of Padova).
1986 - Diploma di Laurea in Fisica (University of Trento).
1979 - High school degree (Liceo Scientifico "Galileo Galilei", Trento).

Employment

since 2011 - Senior Researcher, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (CNR-FBK).
2002:2010 - Senior Researcher, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (CNR-FBK). 1991:2001 - Researcher, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (formerly CeFSA).
1989:1991 - Post-doc, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova (Italy).

Appointments

Since 2014 - Responsible of the development of opto-mechanical microresonators for the project QUANTOM (INFN-CNR).
2010:2013 - Coordinator in Trento of the experiment RareNoise  for the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
2008:2013 - Member of the management board of the RareNoise experiment, funded by the European Community within the Seventh Framework Programme.
2006:2008 - Coordinator in Trento of the experiment DUAL RD of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
2006 - Member of the INFN "roadmap group" for the gravitational wave experiments.
2004:2006 - Member of the working group A European strategy for future antennas of the project Integrated Large Infrastructures for Astroparticle Science, funded by the European Community within the Sixth Framework Programme.
2003:2005 - Coordinator of the R&D project Wideband trasducers for Dual Torus supported by the European Gravitational Observatory.
Since 1994 - Coordinator of the unit Superconducting devices of the IFN-Trento
1993:2000 - Researchers' representative, CeFSA scientific council.

Reviewer for

Classical and Quantum Gravity, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, European Physics Letters, Measurement Science and Technology, Review of Scientific Instruments, Physical Review A, Superconductor Science and Technology, New Journal of Physics, Applied Physics Letters.

Professional affiliations

European Physical Society, Americal Physical Society.