Physicist. Graduated at the University of Rome (now La Sapienza University). Former professor of Mathematical Methods of Physics at the Universities of Rome and Calabria and at the University of Los Andes. Author with N. M. Queen of the book "Dispersion theory in High-Energy Physics". Co-founder and Director (now Emeritus) of the International Physics Center of Bogota. John Wheatley Award of the American Physical Society, Abdus Salam Spirit Award of the International Center for Theoretical Physics "Abdus Salam". Outstabding Salvadorean Recognition from the Government of El Salvador. Honorary member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. Former Director of an European Union program for the Faculty of Sciences of the University of El Salvador. Former UNESCO Representative to Islamic Republic of Iran and Director of Tehran Office. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ricardo Palma University of Lima, Consultant to the Governments of Guatemala and the Dominican Republic and to UNESCO, CSUCA, ICTP and other national and international organizations. Author of some three hundred publications on Science Policy, Theoretical Physics and Science Education. Member of a Working Group promoting the construction of a Synchrotron in the Great Caribbean