Curriculum vitae et studiorum

• born in Bergamo on 09/09/1961
• 1980-1984: fellow of Collegio Universitario Riboldi in Pavia
• 15/02/1985: degree in Physics "summa cum laude" at University of Pavia discussing the thesis  Meson-exchange currents in deep-inelastic electron-nucleus scattering ; advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 1985-1988: Ph. D. student in Physics at  University of Pavia (II series); advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 12/09/1989: Ph. D. diploma in Physics discussing the thesis  Exchange currents and knockout  reactions
• from  01/12/1988:  Researcher at  INFN, Sezione di Pavia
• 1988-1993: teaching exercise classes for Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica at  University of Pavia
• 1990-1994: teaching Nuclear Physics with electromagnetic probes at intermediate energies for the Scuola di Perfezionamento in Fisica at University of Pavia
• 1991:  visiting scientist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),  prof. V.R. Pandharipande
• 1992:  visiting scientist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), prof. V.R. Pandharipande
• 1993-1995: Professor of  Introduction to the theory of differential equations and matrix calculus for problems in Theoretical Physics, degree in Physics at University of Pavia
• 2003-2004: teaching the Ph. D. course in Physics Complementi di Fisica Nucleare I  at  University of Pavia
• 2004-2008: Professor of  Hadronic Physics, degree in Physics at  University of Pavia

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Duties

• 1990:  co-advisor of thesis  Short-range correlations and the nucleon spectral density  by E. Ziliani,  advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 1993-1999:  representative of Research Staff and Associates for the  Sezione di Pavia of  INFN
• 1998: co-advisor of thesis  Short- and long-range correlations in the nuclear density matrix  by C. Barbieri, advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 1998: co-advisor of thesis  The nucleon-delta transition in a semirelativistic chiral model with constituent quarks  by C. Fornarola, advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 1996-2000: member of the team  Pavia for the project  Hadronic Physics with High-Energy Electromagnetic Probes (HaPHEEP)  in the E.C.  FP4 framework
• 2000-2003:  member of the team  Pavia  in the project  Electron Scattering off Confined Partons (ESOP)  in the E.C.  FP5  framework
• 2001: member of the Committee of the final examination for the Ph. D. diploma in Physics at  University of Pavia, curriculum of  Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
• 2001-2003: member of the team  Pavia  for the programme  PRIN-01  Theoretical Physics of the Nucleus and of Many-body Systems,  made of 17 italian institutions and universities and funded by  MURST
• 2002: external member of the Committee of the final examination for the Ph. D. diploma in Physics at  Vrije Universiteit  in Amsterdam
• 2003-2006: INFN representative member of the Scientific Committee of the Physics Library  A. Volta 
• 2006-2010: confirmed INFN representative member of the Scientific Committee of the Physics Library  A. Volta, to become Biblioteca delle Scienze unificata from Jan. 1st, 2008
• 2003-2005: member of the team  Pavia  for the programme  PRIN-03  Theoretical Physics of the Nucleus and of Many-body Systems,  made of 17 italian institutions and universities and funded by  MURST
• 2004-2008: local coordinator of the team Pavia  for the Network (N7) Transversity: exploring the unknown spin structure of the Nucleon,  in the project I3HP in the framework of the E.C. FP6 programme; member of the team  Pavia  for the Network (N5)  HadronicTh: Structure and Dynamics of Hadrons  and the Joint Research Activity (JRA5)  GPD: Generalized Parton Distributions  inside the same project
• 2004: co-organizer of the workshop  Transversity: new developments in Nucleon spin structure,  ECT* (Trento), 14-18 June 2004, in the context of the above mentioned Network N7 activities
• 2005 - 2008: Coordinator of the theoretical activities of the local Sezione di Pavia of INFN
• 2005: co-advisor of thesis  Transverse Spin Distribution in the Proton  by M. Pincetti, University of Pavia, advisor prof. S. Boffi
• 2006: advisor of thesis The Sivers function in a spectator Diquark model by F. Conti, University of Pavia
• 2005-2006: member of the working group  Physics of  e⁺ e^- at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati  in the context of the definition of the  Road Map  for INFN in the next decade  2006-2016
• 2005: member of the working group  Spin Physics at RHIC-II  in the context of the upgrade  RHIC-II Science Workshops   at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL - New York - USA)
• 2006- : web manager of official web page of INFN italian theoretical activities
• 2006- : internal referee for financial proposals within INFN theoretical activities in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics
• 2007-2009: member of the evaluation Committee of Sezione di Pavia to assign postdoc positions about the INFN research activities
• 2008: national coordinator of project AD31-Hadronic Physics within the field: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics of CSN4 Committee of INFN
  

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Research interests

Study of strongly correlated hadronic systems with confined elementary constituents, in particular baryons in the nonperturbative regime of QCD, where quarks and gluons are confined in colorless configurations and the chiral symmetry of the theory is spontaneously broken. 
Three main research fields, for each one there is a detailed description with links to the corresponding publications that can be extracted from the full list  here :

1. study of the electromagnetic response of medium-heavy/heavy nuclei in exclusive reactions where one or more nucleons are emitted  under quasi-elastic conditions (knockout reactions) at low and high momentum transfer (detailed description)
2. study of the nucleon electroweak structure (electromagnetic and axial charge distribution, magnetic moment, etc..) and of its resonances in quark models (detailed description)
3. study of azimuthal (spin) asymmetries in (semi-)inclusive fundamental processes on (un)polarized hadrons: Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS),  e⁺e^- annihilation, Drell-Yan  (detailed description)

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Collaborations

• dott. Alessandro Bacchetta, Theory Group , DESY (Amburgo - Germany)
• prof. Andrea Bianconi, Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica per l'Ingegneria e per i Materiali, Università di Brescia
• dott. Federico A. Ceccopieri, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Parma