CV overview

• 1989: Ph.D. in Jewish Studies (“Dottorato di ricerca”)
• Since 2004: Member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana (Mantua)
• Since 2003: Member of the scientific board at the Hanadiv Foundation (London)
• 1998-2002: board member at the European Association for Jewish Studies
• Since 1999: C-4 Professor for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
• 1991-1999: Secretary at the Italian Association for Jewish Studies (AISG)
• 1992-1999: Professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Venice
  
  

Research Focus:

History of Jewish Mysticism, Jewish culture in late antiquity and eraly modern times.

Organisation of Congresses:

• “‘Ovadyah Yare da Bertinoro e la presenza ebraica in Romagna nel Quattrocento”, Bertinoro 1988
•  “Viaggiatori ebrei. Berichte jüdischer Reisender vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart”, San Miniato 1991
• “Strategie della persistenza”, Mantova 1996
•  “Hebrew to Latin – Latin to Hebrew. The Mirroring of two Cultures in the Age of Humanism”. London, Warburg Institute, 2004

Current Third-Party Funded Research Projects:

“The Kabbalistic Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola” (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, Italien)

• Consultant expert for several national and institutions in Germany and abroad:
  

DFG, DAAD, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)-Österreich, British Academy, Hanadiv Foundation, international universities

• Publisher of: “The Kabbalistic Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola”; “Berlin Studies in Judaism”

• Advisory BoardMember at: Materia Giudaica (Bologna), Studia Rosenthaliana (Amsterdam).

List of publications.