Personal:
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Education:
Doctorate in Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," (with highest honors),
1982.
Thesis title: Formation of self-gravitating systems in Relativistic Cosmology and in
Newtonian approximation.
(Thesis advisor: Remo
Ruffini).
Professional experience:
| Assistant Professor of Physics | Department of Mathematics, Catholic University, Brescia, Italy, 1983-84. |
| Research Fellow | Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Naples), 1984-86. ICRA: International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Rome, 1987-1990. |
| High-school professor, | Liceo Classico, Naples, 1985-86. |
| Visiting Researcher | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Harvard
University-Boston), summer 1990. University of Chicago, 1990. |
| Research Assistant | Department of Physics, University "La Sapienza," Rome, 1990-93. |
| Research Leader | ICRA Project on "Structure and Morphology of
galaxies," (CEE grant), 1993-96. ASI grant, 1993-96. |
| Researcher | ICRA, 1989-1997 |
| Assistant Profes. of Physics | University Campus Biomed. of Rome, Italy, 1993-1999. |
| Expert on Theoretical Physics | Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 1996-99. |
| Reviewer | "Kluwer academic publishers," (ed. Prof. J. E. Dyson.) 1997. |
| Researcher in Physics | University Campus Biomed. of Rome, Italy, 1999. |
Research interests:
Equilibrium and stability of rotating self-gravitating systems with non-linear velocity field: Generalized Riemann Ellipsoids.
The implications of the n-th order virial equations on the equilibrium of Jacobi, Dedekind and Riemann ellipsoids.
Landau damping of fermion perturbations in an expanding universe.
Conferences:
Varenna Physics School on "Gamow Cosmology": communication on "The Capture of Particles in an Einstein-Straus Universe", 1982.
Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics, CIF (Centro Internacional de Fisica), Bogotà (Colombia), communication on "Processes of clustering in Friedmann cosmology", 1984.
International Meeting on Internal Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy), invited talk: "New class of rotating, anisotropic and inhomogeneous models of elliptical galaxies based on the tensor virial theorem," 1988.
"Fifth Marcel Grossmann Meeting," Perth (Australia), communication on "Equilibrium of triaxial self-gravitating ellipsoid with rotation and anisotropic pressure," 1988
International Meeting on Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Observable properties of generalized Riemann ellipsoids and their application to elliptical galaxies", 1989.
"Italian - Soviet Symposium on Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics" (Estonia), invited talk: "Generalized Riemann ellipsoids," 1989.
"Italian - Korean meeting on relativistic astrophysics", (Rome, Italy), invited talk: "Non-linear Dedekind-Riemann sequences," 1989.
International Meeting on Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Nonlinear Velocities in Ellipsoidal Figures of equilibrium," 1990.
"Sixth Marcel Grossmann Meeting," ( Kyoto, Japan) communication on "Dynamical Equilibrium and Stability of Rotating Masses," 1991.
International Meeting on Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Relations between observed quantities and parameters of galactic models," 1991.
International Meeting on Structures in Early-Type Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Landau damping in galactic systems," 1992.
"Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting," Stanford University (USA), communication: "The Landau damping in semi-degenerate gravitating systems," 1994.
"Italian - Korean meeting on relativistic astrophysics," (Italy), invited talk: "The n-th order Virial Theory," 1995.
International Meeting on Normal galaxies at high and low red-shift. Structure, Dynamics and Evolutions, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Inhomogeneous self-gravitating, rotating toroidal sequences," 1997.
"Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting" (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), communications: "Landau damping of fermions perturbations in an expanding universe," "Toroidal solutions to the problem of inhomogeneous rotating gravitational systems," 1997.