Ricardo A. Broglia earned his Ph.D. at the University of Cuyo, Argentina, in 1965. Following positions at the University of Buenos Aires, the Niels Bohr Institute and the University of Minnesota, he joined the staff of the Niels Bohr Institute in 1970, where he is now adjunct Professor. In 1985 he was called to occupy the chair of Nuclear Structure at the University of Milan. Professor Broglia's research interests include nuclear structure and nuclear reactions, the physics of metal clusters and fullerenes, and the folding and aggregation of proteins. He has published several books on these subjects including Finite Quantum Systems coauthored with George Bertsch (Cambridge University Press, 1994).