Felice Cervone - Curriculum Vitae#

19-12-1970: Laurea Degree (Doctor) in Biological Chemistry at The University of Naples
1971-72: Post-Doctoral Fellowship at The International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (Naples).
1972-80: Assistant Professor of Physiological Plant Pathology at The University of Naples
1977-78: EMBO fellowship at The Imperial College of Science and Technology (London -U.K.)
1980-90: Associate Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
1988: Visiting Scientist (Fulbright Fellow) at The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (University of Georgia-U.S.A.).
1990-today: Full Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
1996-98: Associate Editor of the Journal “Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions”.
1999-02: Member of the Advisory Board of the Center of Molecular Biology, Italian Research Council, Rome.
2002-04: Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Environmental and Forrest Biology, Italian Research Council, Rome
2004: Chairman of the X Cell Wall Meeting, Sorrento-Italy
2004-2010: President of the Italian Society of Plant Biology.
2005-2009: Chairman of the Biology Faculty Professors at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2009: Received a Grant from the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant) to work on novel strategies for saccharification of plant biomass
2009-2012: President of the International Society for Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)
2011: Served in the Evaluation Panel (Biology and Biotechnology) of the Italian National Research Council
2011- today: President of the Italian Federation of the Societies of Life sciences
2011-today: Member of the Panel LS9 (Starting Grants) of the European Research Council (ERC)