About – CV

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1.School Training

  • Date and place of birth: February 5, 1935, Albenga (Italy)
  • He entered the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pisa on November 1954. At the same time, he won, in a national competition, one of the two positions as a student in the “Medical College” of the “Scuola Normale Superiore” of Pisa, now called Collegio S. Anna. This position was maintained up to the MD degree.
  • MD degree on 1960 with 110/110 cum laude. The thesis has been recognized as “worth of publication”. During these 6 academic years he worked in the Institute of Human Physiology of the University directed by Prof. G. Moruzzi
  • After the MD degree he has followed a two years course of Biophysics “Libera Docenza” (equivalent to PhD) in Human Physiology in 1967
  • Postdoc with Sir John Eccles in 1965-67 in Canberra and Chicago
  1. Positions held after the MD degree
  • 1960-64: Honorary Assistant Professor in Human Physiology, University of Pisa
  • 1960-62: Fellowships from Ministry of Education and National Research Council (Pisa)
  • 1962-64: Research Member of the National Research Council (Pisa)
  • 1964-67: Assistant Professor in Human Physiology, University of Pisa
  • 1967-75: Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Pisa
  • 1975-95 Professor of Human Physiology, University of Turin
  • 1996-: Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Turin
  • 1965-66: Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Department of Physiology (Canberra)
  • 1966-67: Assistant Member of the Institute for Biomedical Research of the A.M.A. (Chicago)
  • 1967-72: Honorary Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University (Chicago)
  • 1978-79: Visiting Member of the Max Planck Institute für Hirnforschung (Frankfurt) (5 months)
  1. Awards
  • Lepetit Prize for the MD thesis in 1960
  • Prize of the Italian Society of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology in 1963
  • Golgi Prize 1975 assigned by “Accademia dei Lincei” to the italian physiologist, who gave the best contribution to neurophysiology between 1965-75
  • Herlitzka Prize (1994)
  • Medal of the Italian National Academy of Science called of XL (1999)
  • Garavoglia International Prize for Neurology (2001)
  • IBRO Award for the contribution to the development of the world neuroscience (2003)
  • Feltrinelli Price (2004)
  1. Service Positions in Scientific Societies
  • Council Member of the European Neuroscience Association (1980-84)
  • Council Member of the Italian Physiological Society (1983-85)
  • Council Member of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1983-86)
  • President Elect of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1986-88)
  • President of the Italian Neuroscience Society (1988-90)
  • Council Member of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (1988-89 and 1996-98)
  • Vice President of the European Neuroscience Association (1988-92)
  • Governing Council Member of International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (1986-92)
  • Executive Committee Member and Treasurer of IBRO (1991-2003)
  • Chairman of IBRO Publication Committee (from 2003)
  • Executive Committee of European Dana Alliance for Brain (from 1997)
  • President of the Italian Neuroscience Institute
  1. Grant Review and Prize Committees
  • Research Grants of the Human Frontiers Science Program (1989-91)
  • Research Grants of the targeted Project on Aging of Italian CNR (1989-94)
  • Scientific Committee and Research Grants of Italian Telethon (1990-99)
  • President of the targeted Project on Aging of the Italian CNR (1994-99)
  • Committee of the Italian National Research Council for Biology and Medicine (1994-99)
  • European Cortina-Ulisse Prize (1991)
  1. Organization of international scientific Meetings
  • “The olivocerebellar system in motor control”, Satellite Symposium of the 2nd World Congress of IBRO (Turin, August 8-12, 1987)
  • “Magnesium and excitable membranes”, invited symposium of the international Symposium of the Society of Gynecological Endocrinology” (Crans Montana, March 6-12, 1988)
  • 12th Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association (Turin, September 3-7, 1989)
  • 21st Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (Turin, September 6-8, 1989)
  • “Magnesium and excitable membranes”, Satellite Symposium of the 12th Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association (Turin, September 3, 1989)
  • “Cerebellum, from cellular activity to system function”, invited symposium of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (Helsinki, July 9-14, 1989)
  • “Neural basis of learning and memory”. Symposium of the Human Frontier Science Program (Rome, May 25, 1990)
  • “The Cerebellum: from structure to control”, Satellite Symposium of the European Neuroscience Association meeting (Rotterdam, August 31-September 3, 1995)
  • “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair” (Turin, May 29-30, 1998)
  • “Molecular mechanisms of developmental and adult plasticity in the cerebellum” (Turin, May 27-29, 1999)
  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain repair” (Turin, October 11-14, 2000)
  • Human Frontier Science Program meeting (Turin, June 17-20, 2001)
  • Brain plasticity and learning-based therapy (Turin July 6-8, 2003)
  • Cerebellum: cognition and emotion, 35th Annual General Meeting of EBBS, (Barcellona, September 17-20, 2003)
  1. Editorial activity
  • Co-editor of Exp. Brain Res. (1972-1978)
  • Director Symposia and Workshops Program of IBRO (1988-1995)
  • Publication Committee of the IBRO (1991-2003)
  • Chair of IBRO Publication Committee (from 2003)
  • Editorial board of: Europ J Neurosci, Funct Neurol, Neurol Sci, Neuroscience, News Physiol Sci (Associate Editor)
  • Guest referee of: Brain Res, Behav Brain Res, Develop Brain Res, Exp Brain Res, J Neurophysiol, J Neurosci, Mol Brain Res, Neurosci Lett, Vision Res, Cerebellum.
  1. Governmental service positions
  • Advisory Committee of the Minister of the University and of the Scientific Research and Technology for the *”Decade of the Brain” (1991-92)
  • National Committee of the Ministry for the organization of a mobile exhibition on the scientific aspects of drug addiction (1991-92)
  • Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program (since 1993)
  • Advisory Committee of the Health Minister for the pathologies of the nervous system (1995)
  • Delegate of the Minister to the G7 Conference at the White House (Washington) to discuss the future of the Human Frontier Science Program (May 1997)
  • Delegate of the Government to the European Program COST-Neuroscience (since 1998)
  • Delegate of the Minister in the Management Committee of the Program ‘Biomedicine and Health’ at the European Community (1998-99)
  • Expert Delegate of the Minister in the Program Committe of the Fifth Frame Quality of Life Program at the European Community (1999-2002)
  • Coordinator of a Neuroscience National Committee nominated my the Minister of the University on April 2000, to elaborate a program for Neuroscience in Italy.
  1. Academies
  • Academia Europaea
  • Accademia delle Scienze, Turin
  • Accademia di Medicina, Turin
  • Accademia Romana di Scienze Mediche e Biologiche, Rome
  • Accademia degli Illuminati, Rome