Is full Professor, Neurologist and Radiologist at the Department
of Clinical Medicine, Aging and Nephrology of the
University of Bologna.
Since 1991 he has been using advanced MR tecniques (MR
spectroscopy, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Voxel Based Morphometry,
Functional MRI) for clinical research and diagnosis of
neuromuscular and central nervous system diseases . In 1988 he
gained a master's degree in Medicine and Surgery, and was
awarded his doctorate in Biochemistry in 1996 at the
University of Bologna . Between 1995 and 1998 he worked as a
Clinical Research fellow, using MR spectroscopy to study muscular
and cardiac metabolism in numerous neurological disorders at the
Biochemical & Clinical Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit (of
the Medical Research Council), John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK,
and in parallel working as a Senior Registrar dealing with
neuromuscular diseases at the Department of Neurology, University
of Oxford. Between 1995 and 1998 he was Junior Research Fellow at
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford . Since 1999 he has
been Visiting Clinical Scientist at the Biochemical & Clinical
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit in Oxford , undertaking
clinical research and studying animal models of neurological
diseases with MR spectroscopy.
He is the author of numerous publications and regularly acts as
a referee for international scientific journals. He is member of
the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Radiology e of
the Board of the Italian Chapter of the International Society for
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
