Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Florence Member of the board of the PhD course in Chemical Sciences and of the PhD course of Science and Technology of the Materials He participated RTN of the III, IV, V and VI FP of the EC; he was person in of the coordination of students and supervisors of the Marie Curie Training Site “MOLMAG” of the V and VI FP of the EC; he is part of STREP, SSCP and LSCP projects of the VII FP of the EC. He’s co-author of more than 330 articles, published on the best international journals. Some of his publications have been classified Hot paper e VIP paper by prestigious journals.The quality of his work and the interest of international scientific community for his research is testified also by his factor h of absolute national relevance (53) and close to 10,000 citations obtained from his papers. He presented more than 200 communications to national and international conferences Research interest: Inorganic Chemistry - Magnetic Interactions - Organic Radicals - Magnetic Molecular Materials – Single Molecule Magnets – Single Chain Magnets – Magnetic systems containing Rare Earths ions - Magnetic Nanoparticles – Biomedical applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles Coordinator of the scientific board of the Consorzio INSTM, Member of the Board of Directors of the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism, EIMM, Member of the Patent Committee of Consorzio INSTM and of the direction of the Center for Helium recovery and liquefy of the University.