2016 - Wasser-formen: Geschichte, Gestalt und Semantik eines Elements, Studienkurs Florenz, Organisation HanaGrŸndler, Stephanie Hanke und Alessandro Nova, Kunsthistorisches Institut in FlorenzÐMax-Planck-Institut
2014-2015 - Visiting Professor, National University of Mexico UNAM, Department of Industrial Design and Robotics (September-November)
2013 - Researcher as Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellow, San Marino (CA), Huntington Library, ArtCollections, and Botanical Gardens.
2011-2012 - Research Grant, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Research project: diplomatic and cultural relationships between Italy and France during XV and XVI century in Italian manuscripts kept in Californias collections.
2009 - 4th Post-graduate International Specialization Course Cosmologia e astronomia tra Medioevo e l'età moderna.
Vinci,
25 September-2 October 2009. Scientific board: Carlo Pedretti, Romano Nanni, Maurizio Torrini.
International Specialization Course. Centro di Studi Internazionali di San Vivaldo (Montaione). Magia e Supestizione tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, organized by Florence University and Scuola Normale di Pisa. Montaione
1-5 July 2009. 2008 3rd Post-graduate International Specialization Course. Leonardo, la Francia e la Renaissance: la cultura francese eitaliana tra XV e XVI secolo. Un bilancio storiografico.
Vinci, 19-26 September 2008. Scientific board: Carlo Pedretti (UCLA University, Los Angeles), Flaminia Bardati (Università La Sapienza, Roma), Pascal Brioist (Centre d'EtudesSuprieures de la Renaissance, Tours), Sabine Frommel (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Žtudes, Sorbonne, Paris), janGuillaume (Universite Sorbonne,Paris), Carla G. Romby (Universitˆ di Architettura, Firenze).
2007 2nd Post-graduate International Specialization Course. Il corpo umano tra arte e scienza nel Rinascimento:sezionare, osservare, descrivere ed illustrare.
Vinci 14-21 September 2007. Scientific board: Carlo Pedretti (UCLAUniversity, Los Angeles), Roberto Paolo Ciardi (Universitˆ di Pisa), Andrea Carlino (Universitˆ di Ginevra), PaolaSalvi (Accademia di Brera, Milano), Philippe Comar (ƒcole Nazionale SupŽrieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris), RafaelMandressi (CNRS Paris, Centre Alexandre KojrŽ).