Academic career and awards:
Dottore in Matematica, Univ. of Genova 1971.
Postdoctoral fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 1972-1973.
Assistente ordinario of Mathematical Analysis, Univ. of Genova 1973-1981.
Professore ordinario of Mathematical Analysis, Univ. of Genova since 1981.
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Göteborg Universitet 1999.


Visiting Teaching and Research Positions.
Research associate, Univ. of California at Berkeley 1976-1978
Washington Univ. St. Louis 1977, 1978
Visiting associate professor, Yale Univ. 1982
A.R.G.S. Research Consultant Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney 1985,1986,1989 and Flinders Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide 1985, 1986
Member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley 1987, 1997
Tempus visiting professor Univ. of Wroclaw 1992
Member of the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm 1995.


Other scientific qualifications:
European Coordinator of the UE Human Capital and Mobility and PECO Programmes "Fourier Analysis" 1994-97;
Coordinator of the Progetto Integrato CNR-Università: Modellazione in ambienti differenziati 1996-98;
National coordinator of the PRIN projects "Harmonic Analysis" 2000 and 2002.
Invited speaker in colloquia, seminars, conferences at several universities in Italy, China, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Australia;
Member of the scientific committees of the following conferences: Harmonic Analysis, Cortona, Italy, 1982; Harmonic Analysis in Varenna, Varenna, Italy, 1997.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Lie Theory.


Ph. D. students: S. Meda, F. Astengo, A. Veneruso, E. Sasso, A. Carbonaro, L. Noselli, M. Spinelli, T. Bruno.


Offices:
Chairman of the Corso di Laurea in Matematica 1991;
Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Genova 1994-97;
Coordinator of the Research Area "Mathematics and Information Science", of the Univ. of Genova 1999-2003;
Member of the Academic Senate on the University of Genova 2005-2007 and 2008-2010;
Member of the Scientific Committee of GNAMPA (National Group for Mathematical Analysis, Probability and Applications) 2005-2008.