Master Degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in 1990 at the University of Pisa.

-1991-1994 Ph.D Degree-Thesis Title: Reactions of 1,2-epoxides and their application to organic synthesis (Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Crotti).

1994-1996 Post-doc (Assegno di Ricerca) at the University of Pisa with Prof. Franco Macchia

1997 INDIVIDUAL MARIE-CURIE FELLOWSHIP at the Department of Organic and Molecular Inorganic Chemistry, University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS (supervisor Prof. Dr. Ben Feringa, Nobel Laureate Chemistry year 2016).

-1998-2002 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Ricercatore Universitario)
-2000 recipient of the Ciamician Medal, a prestigious award of the Organic Division of the Italian Chemical Society mainly for his achievements on new catalytic enantioselective carbon-carbon bond formation.
-2002 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Pisa.
-2017 FULL PROFESSOR of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the following Journals: Current Organic Chemistry (Bentham Science) and Molecules (MDPI).

He has 122 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including the most prestigious journals in chemistry, and 5 international patents.
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