Director of the Electronics Engineering Division in the Accelerator Directorate at the SLAC National Acceletator Laboratory.

Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Università di Padova, and visiting Research Scientist at Stanford University.

Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at UCLA, currently Visiting Professor at SLAC. Received the prestigious Fermi Award for his pioneering work on X-ray Free Electron Lasers and is a major contributor to studies on collective effects in relativistic particle beams.

Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University and the “Ralph Landau” Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Affiliated with NBER, CEPR, IZA, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Charles Kittel Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley; founding Director of Center for Sustainable Innovation at UCB and co-founder of Quantum Advanced Detection (QUAD) LLC. Member of the US Academy of Art and Sciences.

Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at UCSF; Director of the Language Neurobiology Laboratory at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center; co-Director the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center

Faculty member in the History of Art Department and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Program at UC Berkeley. Founder of the Mario Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian Studies and elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence.