Carlo Nipoti is Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the Università di Bologna, where he received his Ph.D. in Astronomy, and he was a temporary lecturer of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford. He teaches courses on the physics of galaxies and on the dynamics of astrophysical systems at undergraduate and graduate levels. His research is in the field of theoretical astrophysics with special interest in the formation, evolution and dynamics of galaxies, on which he is author of valuable papers.