BRIEF ACADEMIC CURRICULUM

 - Laurea doctoral degree cum laude in Theoretical Physics, University of Florence, 1978.
 - Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, November 1981
 - Research Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,
   State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1981-1982.
 - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lauritsen Laboratory of High
   Energy Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1983-1984.
 - Tenured Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (I.N.F.N.),
   Sezione di Torino, gruppo IV (Theory division), 1982.
 - Senior Fellow at C.E.R.N., Theory Division, 1986-1988
 - Tenured First Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, 1990
 - Full Professor of Theoretical Physics, Università di Torino at Alessandria, 1994
 - Scientific Director with Prof. J. Wess, of the International School of Physics
  "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, June 1994, on "Quantum Groups and their physical applications"
  - Scientist in charge for three Euroconferences (1998, 1999, 2000)
   at the Institute for Scientific Interchange (I.S.I.) Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy,
   on "New Symmetries in Quantum Physics"
 - Scientific coordinator for the Alessandria node of the PRIN national
   research grant "Theoretical Physics of fundamental interactions" 1997-1998 and 1999-2000.
 - Scientific coordinator for the Alessandria node of the PRIN national
   research grant "Field theory, superstrings and gravity", 2001-2002.
 - President of the Physics Course of the Faculty of Sciences,  1997-2000
 - Member of the National Scientific Commission IV of INFN,
   area "Field theory and strings", 2001-2004
 - Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale at Alessandria, 2004-2007
 - Member of the Academic Senate of the Università del Piemonte Orientale, 2002-2011
 - Scientific coordinator for the INFN Torino node of the MIUR Project (Progetto premiale)
   "Beyond the classical measurement limits", 2013 -
 - President of the Evaluation Panel for the Music Conservatory "A. Vivaldi"
   of Alessandria, 203-2015
 - President of the Laurea Magistrale Interateneo (UNITO-UPO) in "Physics of Complex
   Systems", 2013 -
 - Member of the Counsel of the Interuniversity Center "Agorà Scienza", 2015 -
 - Member of the Scientific Committee of the Arnold-Regge Center for Algebra, Geometry and Theoretical Physics, 2017 -

                 MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS 

-  Gravity, supergravity and superstrings
 - Generalized Kaluza-Klein theories, and their application
   to multidimensional supergravity and superstrings
 - Group theory, differential geometry and topology. Free  
   differential algebras. Their use in supergravity and superstring
   theories containing p-forms.
 - Noncommutative geometry. Dimensional reduction on discrete spaces.
   Quantum Groups: their use in the construction of q-gauge and
   q-gravity theories. Differential calculus on q-groups.
 - Gauge and gravity theories on noncommutative spaces
 - Gauge/gravity correspondence
 - Quantum computation