Graduated in Medicine cum laude 1980; specialized in Endocrinology cum laude 1983; specialized in Neurology cum laude 1993; PhD in Genetics cum laude 1997. Director of the Division of Biochemistry and Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy 1997–2000; Director of the Division of Molecular Neurogenetics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy 2001–2012; Director of the Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Group Leader of the program on Mitochondrial Medicine and Full Professor in Mitochondrial University at the University of Cambridge, UK 2013–2019; Professor of Neurology at the University of Padua Department of Neurosciences and Principal Investigator of the Unit on Mitochondrial Medicine at the Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, 2019–present.