Born in Vercelli, 20/03/56

Academic degree: Medicine and Surgery, University of Pavia (1981, cum laude), Specialization in Psychiatry, University of Pavia (1985, cum laude), PhD in Psychiatry and Sciences of Relationship, University of Milan (1997)

Present position:

• 2019-2022 President, Rehabilitation Graduate Program, University of Pavia
• 2018-2020 Head, Department of Mental Health and Dependencies, ASST Pavia
• 2017-2020 Head, School of Specialization in Psychiatry, University of Pavia
• 2013-2023 Head, Psychiatric Unit, ASST Pavia
• 2011 – Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pavia
• 2011-2017 Visiting Professor to the Postgraduate Medical Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, UK

Previous positions:

• 2004-2011 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pavia
• 1987-2004 Consultant Psychiatrist, USL77/ASL/AO Pavia

Autism Spectrum Disorder in adulthood, Schizophrenia, Psychological Medicine, Psychiatric aspects of Organ Transplantation, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Psychology of music