Present: Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Florence. Alumnus of Collegio Ghislieri, MD 1975 University of Pavia. Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Pavia untill 1987; Associate Professor and then (1994) Full Professor of Physiology at the University of Florence. Chair of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine (2013-2020); President of the Italian Society of Physiology ( 2017-2020).