Personale docente

Professional background
Education
- Degree in Mathematics (cum laude), University of Parma, Italy, 1992.
- Ph.D. Degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Milano, Italy, 1996.
Positions held
- One-year research fellow by CNR (National Research Council of Italy) at Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy, 1992 and 1996.
- Ph.D. fellow from 1992 to 1995 at the University of Milano (Italy).

-Assistant Professor of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Parma, from 1998 to 2010

- Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Parma, from 2010 to 2018.

Present position:  Since 31 December 2018, Full Professor of Mathematical Physics, Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences, University of Parma.

Teaching and training experiences
- From 1992 to 1998: teaching assistant in various courses of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Analysis at the University of Parma.
- Since 1998, I have been teaching Rational Mechanics, Applied Mathematics, Models in Mathematical Physics, Calculus at the University of Parma,
- Since 1992, I have been advisor or co-advisor of graduate theses in Mathematics (at University of Parma) in the fields of numerical methods for PDEs, kinetic theory of gases, mathematical models in populations dynamics.

-Since 2007, advisor or co-advisor of 5 PhD Thesis in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics

Since 2004 I have been reviewer of papers in kinetic theory for MathSciNet Database and
reviewers for journals of Applied Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics.
I am author of more than sixty research papers on international journals (peer-reviewed) with large diffusion, and I have presented results of my researches in about thirty international conferences (some of them as invited speaker).

Invited short visits at foreign Universities: Graz (Austria), Northridge (USA), Kyoto (Japan), ENS Cachan (France), Saarbruecken (Germany).

Research projects and grants
- Coordinator of one-year junior research grant from GNFM-INDAM (National Group for Mathematical Physics of Italy) in 2002 for researches on the detonation problem for a mixture of chemically reacting gases.
- Since 1998, Member of the research unit in Parma of the Research Project PRIN MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research of the Italian Republic)
- Coordinator of a bilateral project UIF - Galileo Project 2007 between Italy and France.

Member of the Editorial Board of Rivista UMI - Matematica, Cultura e Società, and of Rivista di Matematica dell'Università di Parma.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) since 2018.