Education
After a Master in theoretical physics at Università di Bologna in 1994, I started a PhD at Università di Pisa on the phenomenology of the strong interactions spending a good fraction of my time at CERN. I was awarded the PhD in Feb 1999 with a thesis on "Quarkonium phenomenology".
Professional experience
After receiving my PhD from the University of Pisa in 1999, I worked in several institutions in Europe and the US, first as a post-doctoral researcher and, since 2005, with a permanent position at the Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Since 2018 I have also joined the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Università di Bologna.
Nov 1998 - Oct 1999: Post-doc (Assegnista di ricerca) at Università di Torino (IT).
Nov 1999 - Oct 2002: Post-doc (Research associate) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US).
Nov 2002 - Sept 2004: Post-doc (Fellow) at Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma (IT).
Oct 2004 - Sept 2005: Post-doc (Fellow) at the CERN TH Division.
Since 2005: Professor (2005-2010 Chargé de cours; 2010-2015 Professeur; 2015- Professeur Ordinaire) at Université catholique de Louvain (B).
Since 2018: Professor (Professore Ordinario) at Università di Bologna (IT).
