Education and professional experience: 1989-1993: Degree in physics at the Università di Pavia, Italy. 1995-1998: Ph.D in Physics at the Università di Milano, Italy. 1998-2000: Post-doc at the CEA, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, France. 2000-2002: Post-doc at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Como 2002: Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Como From 31 December 2002: Researcher at Univesità degli Studi dell’Insubria, Sede di Como, Italy. Main research interests: • Thermoelectric transport; • Heat transport and thermal rectifiers; • Far from equilibrium quantum systems • Quantum computation and quantum information; • Open quantum systems; • Many-body quantum systems; • Disordered systems; • Nonlinear and complex systems. Summary of scientific publications: • Author of more than 110 scientific publications, including 16 Phys. Rev. Lett. and 40 Phys. Rev. papers. • Author of a two–volume textbook on Principles of Quantum Computation and Information (2004-2007). • Editor of a volume of the E. Fermi School on Quantum Computers, Algorithms and Chaos (2006).