Alberto U. G. Maurizi obtained his Laurea (Italian equivalent of MSc), cum laude, in physics from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1992. His education continued with the support of the Italian National  Research Council (CNR) at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) and subsequently  supported by Post-Doc EC grants (EC HCM Programme). Promoted to a permanent position in 2001 at CNR-ISAC, he worked on complex geophysical problems (mainly turbulence in geophysical flows). More recently,  he moved to the CNR-IMM (Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems) to follow his growing interest in dynamical systems and their application to modelling of sound perception.