Born in Riola Sardo (OR) on September 23, 1956. Laurea with honors
in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Bologna (Feb., 1981).
After his military service got his Ph.D. in Nuclear
Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC), IL, USA (Aug., 1987). Then Post-Doctoral fellow at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasma Physik (IPP) in Munich, researcher
at the Telespazio in Rome, senior researcher at CRS4 in Cagliari
and from November 1993 associate professor in the Engineering
School of the University of Bologna. From 2001 member of the
professors' board of the research doctorate in Energy, Nuclear and
Environmental Control
Engineering of the University of Bologna.
Career
1983-1987: research assistant, Department of Nuclear
Engineering e Natioanl Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA), UIUC, IL, USA
1987-1989: Post Doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasma
Physik (IPP), Garching bei München, D
1989-1992: Researcher at Telespazio, Rome
1992-1993: Senior Researcher at CRS4, Cagliari
from1993: Associate Professor, Engineering School,
University of Bologna
Other positions
1985-1987: Visitor, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM,
USA
1989: Visiting Professor, Engineering School, University of
Bologna
1994-1996: Visiting scientist, CRS4, Cagliari
2007: Visiting professor, Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
(UPMC), Paris, F
