Degree in Physics at the University of Pisa (supervisor prof. Marcello Conversi) and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1958.
Researcher of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Section of Rome from 1958 to 1965.
Officer of the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force from 1961 to 1962.
Assistant of General Physics at the University of Rome from 1965 to 1968.
Research Associate and then Staff Member at the Theoretical Study Division of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva from 1966 to 1972.
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bologna (Italy) from 1972 to 1974.
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Trento (Italy) from 1974.
Retired in 2001, but still active in the field of theoretical physics.
He has been nominated Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the University of Trento.
Main contributions to research:
Experiments on muon physics at the CERN synchrocyclotron.
Theoretical researchs on the high energy strong interactions of elementary particles using the harmonic analysis on the Lorentz group.
Critical analysis of the spacetime concepts.
Formulation of the theory of gravitation and other field theories on the ten-dimensional manifold of the reference frames.
Present research fields:
Theories with a maximal proper acceleration.
Quantum Frames.
Quantum description of the coordinates of an event.
Noncommutative spacetimes.
Possible failures of the Lorentz symmetry.
Classical and quantum theory of test particles in gravitational and electromagnetic fields.