1989-1990:     Chief of the sanitary Service of the Military Presidium in Verona 1992-1995:      Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. 1991-1998:      Visiting scholar (2 months) at the EMBL, Heidelberg (Dr. Sara Courtneidge lab,) and Ulm University (Prof. Thomas Gress) 1998                Assistant Professor of Pathology, various research and teaching stages at the Diamond Light Source (Didcot, UK), National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR) Doha, Qatar, University of Minnesota, (USA). 2012-present  Founder and Coordinator of the Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research  (C.F.T.R.) laboratory, at the Department of Pathology and Diagnostics-now Dept. of Medicine (http://www.cfcverona.it/LabRicTras.html) 2014             Appointed Faculty Member (Visiting Professor) at the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota (U.S.A.) 2017             National Academic Qualification as Full Professor for sectors 06A2 (General pathology and clinical pathology) and 06N1 (Sciences of health professions and of applied medical technologies) 2018                 Associate Professor of General Pathology