Maurizio Bottoni was born in Ferrara, Italy, on December 5, 1941. After humanistic studies in Ferrara, and basic courses in mathematics and physics at the Ferrara University, he st...ver maisMaurizio Bottoni was born in Ferrara, Italy, on December 5, 1941. After humanistic studies in Ferrara, and basic courses in mathematics and physics at the Ferrara University, he studied nuclear engineering at the University of Bologna where he obtained a Doctor Degree in December 1965, with a thesis in neutron physics, which was awarded the Righi price of the Bologna University. For about 25 years Dr. Bottoni worked at the Nuclear Research Centre of Karlsruhe, Germany, and at the Argonne National Laboratory of Chicago, Illinois, on fast nuclear reactor safety analysis. After the demise of the fast reactor projects, both in Germany and in USA, followed years as visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. At present Dr. Bottoni is consultant at the Meteorological and Environmental Earth Observation (MEEO) Company in Ferrara and cooperates with the Mathematics Department of the Ferrara University on numerical simulations of space physics. Dr. Bottoni is author of 90 technical or scientific articles. His main interests are natural sciences, languages and mountain climbing. In 2008 Dr. Bottoni was given from the International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) a meritorious award for his scholarly work.ver menos