2005 - present - Full professor in Science and Technology of Materials Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari. Italy Associate researchers of the National Instituto of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Director of the Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Academician of European Academy of Sciences 2022 August – June 2023. Distinguished visiting faculty. Department of Chemistry. United Arab Emirates University. 2010 – 2018 – Science and Technology Counsellor at the Embassy of Italy to the People’s Republic of China (Beijing)