Personal:

Born: La Brigue, France, May 17, 1942.

Married: Anna Imponente, one son: Jacopo

Italian citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident

Academic Qualification: Professor, Chair of Theoretical Physics

Curriculum Vitae:

• Doctorate in Physics, University of Rome, 1966.
• Postdoctoral fellow Mainz Academy of Sciences. Hamburg, Fed. Republic, Germany, 1967.
• Postdoctoral fellow Palmer Physics Lab. Princeton University, N.J., 1967-68.
• Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., 1968-70.
• Instructor, Princeton Univ., 1970-71.
• Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1971-74.
• Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 1974-76 .
• Visiting professor Kyoto University (Japan), 1975.
• Visiting professor University of Western Australia, Nedlands (Australia), 1975.
• Professor University of Catania, Italy, 1976-78.
• Professor, Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome "la Sapienza", 1978-
• Member Council of Center. International Physics, Bogotà, Colombia, 1984-
• President International Center Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA), 1985-
• Director of  ICRANet 2005-
• Member of Task Force Scientific Use of Space Station NASA, Washington, 1986-88.
• Chairman International Organizing Committee of Marcel Grossmann Meetings, 1984-
• Member International Forum on the Scientific Use of Space Station, Washington, 1986-90.
• Member of Consiglio Ricerche Astronomiche, Rome, 1987-91.
• Co-Chairman Italian-Korean Meetings on Relativistic Astrophysics, Rome and Seoul, 1987-
• Chairman William Fairbanks Meetings, 1990-
• President of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Space Agency, Rome, 1989-93.
• Member of the Board of ENEA, 2004-
• Co-Director Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology-World Scientific, Singapore, 1986-
• Editor Internat. Jour. Modern Phys. D World Scientific Singapore, 1992-
• Editor of the series "The Marcel Grossmann meetings on relativistic Field Theories", 1985-
• Co-Editor of the Series" Italo-Korean meetings on Relativistic Astrophysics".
• Member Sigma Xi.
• Member Italian Physical Society.
• Founding Member of European Physical Society.
• Member of Euroscience
• Fellow recipient:
  • Cressy Morrison award of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1972.
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society 1974-
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow, 1974-76.
  • Space Scientist of the Year Award, 1992.
  • Honorary Professor of University of Kirghizia 1998-