Roberto Dvornicich, having been a student at the Scuola Normale of Pisa, obtained a degree in Mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1972 and later attended the Corso di Perfezionamento at the Scuola Normale. He has been a full professor in Algebra at the University of Pisa since 1990. His main research interests lie within Algebraic Number Theory (arithmetic properties of number fields and local fields) and in Diophantine Analysis (algebraic equations over the integers or some number field).