- From Nov. 1984 to Mar. 1988 studies physics both at the Scuola
Normale Superiore and the Università di Pisa.
- From Nov. 1988 to Feb. 1992 works at his PhD at the European
Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Firenze, eventually
defending an experimental thesis on "High resolution spectroscopy
in the far infrared", advisor Prof. M. Inguscio.
- From Mar. 1992 to Sept. 1994, with an EEC grant, stays at the
Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Muenchen, in Prof. T. W.
Haensch's group, working on ultrahigh spectroscopy of the hydrogen
atom and on a measurement of the Rydberg constant.
- From Oct. 1994 to March 1996 is a Post--Doc. of the Università
di Firenze at LENS.
- From Mar. 1996 to Oct 2001 has a research permanent position at
the Università di Firenze, working at LENS on laser cooling, high
resolution spectroscopy and Bose--Einstein condensation.
- From Sept. 1999 to Sept. 2000 spends a sabbatical year at JILA,
Boulder, in the group of Prof. E. A. Cornell working on
magnetic guides for slow atoms.
- From Nov. 2001 to Nov. 2009 is associated professor at the
Physical--Chemistry Dept. of the Università di Bologna.
- From Jun. 2003 to Jun. 2014 is main experimental activity was within the
INFN project MAGIA, at the Phys. Dept. of the Università di
Firenze, measuring the gravitational constant G
using atom interferometry.
- From Jun. 2004 to Sept. 2004 is visiting scientist at the
division of Spectrometrie Physique of CNRS, Grenoble, in the group
of D.~Romanini, where he is involved in trace detection of gas
pollutants with ultrahigh sensitivity diode laser
spectroscopy.
- Since 2015 started a collaboration with the group of Prof. P. Bouyer at the Institute d'Optique in Bordeaux, where he was visiting scientist for a couple of months during the fall 2016, aiming at the realization of a high performance atom interferometer for gravitational studies.
- Since 2009 is with the Physics and Astronomy Dept. of the
Università di Bologna.
His main interests are in the fields of high resolution
spectroscopy, optical metrology, laser cooling and cold atoms. Has
published about 80 papers on international journals.
