Riccardo Fantoni was born in Livorno on the 30 August 1970, lived in Pisa until 1995 where graduated "cum Laude" in the department of Physics of the University. Then moved as a graduate student to the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign until 2000 working as a Teaching and Research Assistant and in 1997 got a Master in Physics. Moved to Trieste and in 2004 got a Ph.D. in Physics. From 2005 to 2008 worked at the Chemical Physics department of the University "Ca' Foscari" of Venice as a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow. From 2009 to 2012 worked at the National Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Stellenbosch as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2018 got a full professorship as a mathematics teacher in the secondary italian school of second degree. In 2019 won the habilitation as an associate professor in theoretical physics of matter in the italian university system.