Education 
• 1963  secondary school diploma
• 1968 Laurea in Physics 110/110 lode University of Naples ITALY with the thesis:       “Barion  anti Barion production in e+  e- storage rings (Adone)”
Professional Development and Experience
• 1967-1968 Student fellowship at CNEN Frascati (National Committee for Nuclear Energy)
•1969   Fellowship position at CNEN Frascati 
•1970-1975 Staff Physicist  at CNEN Frascati
•1972  Lecturer Naples University “Electromagnetic Waves”
• 1975-2010 Staff Physicist at INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
•1989-1996 member of the INFN national scientific committee for neutrino and astroparticle physics first and second mandate 
• 1990 – 2010 INFN Research Director (senior scientist) 
• 1990 - 1991 – 1992 Lecturer Astroparticle Physics -Perugia University
• 1994 member of the organizing committee and of the editorial board of the first Amaldi conference on Gravitational Waves
• 1997 –1999 member of the INFN national committee for computers and network
• 2003 -2006 elected chairman of the INFN national scientific committee for neutrino and astroparticle physics
• 2006 -2009 elected again chairman of the INFN national scientific committee for neutrino and astroparticle  physics
• 2003  - 2009 member of the INFN internal evaluation committee
• 2005 – 2009 member of the ApPEC Program Review Committee
• 2007 – 2009 member of the EGO – VIRGO  scientific and technical advisory committee
• 2008 chair of the selection committee of the Rossi prize for the best Ph. D. thesis in astroparticle physics
• 2009 chair of the selection committee of the Rossi prize for the best Ph. D. thesis in astroparticle physics
• 2009  Aspera program committee
• 2011 - now retired.  INFN senior research associate
		      
• Chair and member of many committees for selection and promotion of INFN researches and fellow