Education
Degree in Medicine, University of Padua, 1961;
Degree in Neurology, University of Padua, 1964;
Libera Docenza in Fisiologia Umana, Rome 1969.

Current position
Professor Emeritus of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Parma, Italy.
Responsible of Parma Unit of CNR Neuroscience Institute

Fellowships and awards
Fullbright scholarship 1980;
Golgi Award for Studies in Neurophysiology, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei 1982;
Member of Academia Europaea, 1989;
Laurea Honoris Causa, University Claude Bernard Lyon, France 1999;
Prize “Feltrinelli” for Medicine, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2000;
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2002;
Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2002;
Foreign member of the Académie Francaise des Sciences 2005;
Herlitzka Prize for Physiology, Accademia delle Scienze Torino 2005;
Laurea Honoris Causa, University St. Petersburg, Russia 2006;
Grawemeyer Prize for Psychology, University of Louiseville, USA 2007;
Prix IPSEN, Neuroplasticity, Fondation IPSEN Paris 2007;
Laurea Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2009;
Prix Signoret, Neuropsychology, Fondation IPSEN 2010;
Prince de Asturias Prize for Science and Technology, Spain 2011;
Foreign Member National Academy of Sciences, USA 2012;
Brain Prize Lundbeck Foundation 2014;
Laurea Honoris Causa University of Sassari, 2015;
Laurea Honoris Causa University of Buenos Aires 2016;
Premio “Lombardia è ricerca” Regione Lombardia 2017.

Present teaching activities
Affiliate Professor University of Malta

Organisation of scientific meetings
Annual Meeting of Brain and Behavior Society 1985;
Annual Meeting of the Academia Europaea 1995;
International meeting “20 years from the discovery of mirror neurons”, Erice, September 2012;
FENS meeting “The Social Brain”, Copenhagen, 5-9 October 2014;

Institutional responsibilities
President Italian Neuropsychological Society 1982-1984;
President European Brain and Behaviour Society 1984-1986;
President of the International Scientific Committee of the European Training Program in Brain and Behaviour Research, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg 1988-1991;
Council Member of Academia Europaea 1990-1996;
President Italian Neuroscience Association 1997-1999;
Member European Medical Research Council 1998-2000;
ERC Panel Member Life Sciences 2011, 2013, 2015.

Memberships of scientific societies
Società Italiana di Neuroscienze, Honorary member;
Società Italiana di Fisiologia;
Federation of European National Society;
Society for Neuroscience.