Degrees Received

• Laurea (equivalent to an American Master’s Degree) in Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Italy, Summer 1961 (magna cum laude).
• D. Phil. (Doctor of Philosophy) in Applied Mathematics, at the University of Oxford, England, Michelmas Term 1967. Supervisor: the late C. A. Coulson, FRS, Rouse Ball Professor of Applied Mathematics.
• Libera Docenza in Theoretical Chemistry, December 1970. A state exam roughly equivalent to a British Doctor of Science or a GermanHabilitation.

Positions Held

• 1963–1965: Assistant Lecturer at the Physics Department of the Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy.
• 1965–1968: Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
• 1968–1970: Research Associate at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (A.E.R.E.), Harwell, England.
• 1970–1974: Lecturer of Physical Chemistry, The University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• 1974–1979: Professor of Physical Chemistry, The University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
• 1979−2014: Professor of Quantum Chemistry (First Chair), Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.
• 2013–to date: Senior Research Professor, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ion Physics.
• 2013−to date: External Lecturer, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.

Visiting Research Fellowships

• 1965–1966: NATO Research Fellowship at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
• 1967–1968: British Council Scholarship, for graduate study at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University.
• 1971–1972: Royal Society Exchange Fellowship for research at the Dept. of Theoretical Physics, the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 1979–1991: Von-Humboldt Fellowships at the Max-Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1982–2000: Visiting Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Advancement of Sciences, to the Institute of Space Research, Tokyo, Japan.
• 1985: Senior NATO Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States.
• 1992–1996: Senior Humboldt Awardee Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany.
• 1995: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard University, United States.
• 2000: Visiting Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, United States.
• 1995–2001: Max Planck Research Prize, Göttingen University, Germany.
• 2003–2006: Humboldt Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Editorial Appointments in International Journals

• 1982–1990: Editor of Computer Physics Reports.
• 1979–1990: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.
• 1984–1988: Member of the Editorial Board of theJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
• 1995–2001: Editor-in-Chief ofEurophysics Letters.
• 1997–2001: Member of the Editorial Board of the European Physics Journal D: Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.
• 1990–2000: Member of the Editorial Board of Anales de Fisica, Madrid, Spain.
• 1985–2001: Editorial Board Member of: Computer Physics Communication.
• 2003–2009: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Physics D.

Honors, Awards, and Institutional Appointments

• Chairperson, invited speaker, and plenary lecturer (since 1970) to several international conferences and international summer schools for more than 300 invitations, nearly always outside Italy.
• 1981–1989: Chairman of the Division of Atomic and Molecular Physics of the European Physical Society.
• 1981–1991: Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) and Chairman of the Committee (1989–1991).
• 1991: Received the Humboldt Research Prize from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, through the Von Humboldt Foundation.
• 1988: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• 1989: Elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
• 1994: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.).
• 2005: Elected Fellow of the European Physical Society.
• 2008: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.).
• 2009: Elected Fellow of the Academia Europea (London).
• 2014 : Elected Fellow of the Acàdemie de Stalinslas (France).
• 1995: Awarded the Research Prize of the Max-Planck Society for Chemical Physics.
• 1996: Recipient of the P.O. Lowdin Lecture for 1996 by the University of Uppsala (Sweden).
• 1998: Recipient of the MOLEC Award, Bristol, Sept. 1998.
• 1995–2000: President of the Coordinating Committee of the NIC Computing Consortium (Rome).
• 2003–2006: President of the Supercomputing Consortium CASPUR (Rome).
• 1998−2000: Member of the Ministerial Committee on National Computing, GARR (Rome).
• 1985–2010: Member of the Board of the Doctorate in Chemistry (Rome, Sapienza University).

Publications

• Books: 5 (1 as single author and 4 as Editor).
• Publications: more than 590 publications (starting in 1965) in several international, refereed journals and as chapters of specialist’s volumes (more than 170 in the last five years).

Coordinator of Research Projects

• 1980–2008: Coordinator of local research units in 10 different European Research and Training Networks of the Eurpean Science Division.
• 1995–present: Scientific Coordinator of local units in 6 different COST projects (Chemistry and Physics) of the European Science Foundation.
• 1995–2008: National Coordinator of 6 different projects of national interest (PRIN) of the Italian MUIR Ministery.
• 2011–2013: Coordinator of a local research unit within a national research project (PRIN)