Myworst nightmare is to be reincarnated as an earthworm, olm, lawyer,o rtax consultant.Myfavourite place on earth is the Altipiano delle Pale di San Martino in the Dolomite Mountains of Belluno.The most amusing chemistry adventure in my career was the observation that triethylgallium starts giving off small flashes of light when being frozen in liquid nitrogen or after warming it again. Mythree top films of all time are Lâge d'or (Buñ uel), Die Blechtrommel (Schlçndorff), Morte aVenezia (Visconti), Delicatessen (Jeunetu nd Caro), Mulholland Drive and BlueV elvet (Lynch), Kill Bill and From DuskT ill Dawn (Tarantino), Film damore ed anarchia and Camorra (Wertmüller), Carnage (Polań ski), Nostalghia and Offret (Trakowski), …oh, its already more than three-I love cinema!The downside of my job is the incredible amount of (mostly superfluous) bureaucracy, which is dreamed up by university management and administration, ministry bureaucrats,but also the submission systems of various journals,just to distract us-with quite some success-from science and teaching.The biggest problem that scientists face today is that their work is considered to be less relevant for society than that carried out in the cultural sector,despite the fact that science is part of human culture and generates objects and concepts of elegance and beauty.