Ugo Bardi's curriculum and some personal notes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Career

Hello! I don't know how exactly you clicked your way up to this page, but in case you are interested in details about my career at the university, here are some data:

At present I am professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Firenze, Italy. I started with this position in 1992, before that I was staff researcher at the Department of Applied Chemistry in the same university. Earlier on, I have been postdoc in various places: Berkeley , Aix-Marseille and New York at Stony Brook My academic degree is a "laurea" in Chemistry at the faculty of Sciences of the University of Firenze (that goes back to 1976). Maybe I could also list here the names of my teachers, the people to whom I owe most of all that (little) I know in science: these are Gianfranco Rovida (my thesis advisor), Franco Jona (my first boss in Stony Brook) Phil Ross and Gabor Somorjai (my time in Berkeley), Marcel Bienfait (in Marseille) and Yoshimasa Nihei (I was a fellow researcher in his group in Tokyo). If you need a formal curriculum of mine, just write me.

Personal notes

I was born in Firenze in 1952, I have been married since 1976 and my wife Grazia should be considered the main force behind everything good I have done so far (the bad is all my fault). I have two children (sort of grown up by now), Francesco (b. 1982) and Donata (b.1988). I live in Fiesole, a few km from Firenze. At my place there also live Gea, (b.2005) as well as Buffy, Sid and Lulu (Buffy was born in 2003, Sid and Lulu in 2004). I am not sure if it is politically correct to mention racial data, but the first four names mentioned here (Ugo, Grazia, Francesco and Donata) belong to the Homo Sapiens species. Gea is a canis lupus familiaris, and the last three belong to the felis silvestris catus species. Several other "silvestris" creatures have lived in this house and we have a page for another, gone long ago, felis silvestris another Lulu . About my family, you may also give a look to the page of one of my ancestors, my great-grandfather Antonio Bardi.

What else? I have an interest in art and mythology, see for instance my page about the Chimera . Lots of people tell me that I should do more exercise, and they are probably right. I try to do that as an archer, but perhaps I have spent more time on theorizing on it that practicing it, see for instance my page on Archery .

All that is probably more than you ever wanted to know about me, so I'll stop here without mentioning other (a bit weird) things I am engaged in. Just as a last note: the picture at the top of this page was taken in Hilo, Hawai'i, in 1997. I wear a "lei" and I am completely jet-lagged (normally I don't look so sleepy, at least I hope....).

Ugo

last update Dec 2006.