January 2017 – Present Assistant Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy

May 2015 – December 2016 Senior Post-Doctorate, Synaptic Neuroscience Center, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

October 2014 – March 2015 Assistant Project Scientists II, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA.

 July 2011 – September 2014 Assistant Project Scientists I, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA.

November 2007 – June 2011 Post-Doctorate, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

May 2003 – October 2007 PhD in Molecular Neuroscience SISSA/ISAS (International School for Advanced Studies) Trieste, Italy

September 1995 – February 2002 Degree in Biological Sciences (specialization in Molecular Biology) University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ Italy