About the Author

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Salvatore Capozziello is Full Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Physics, University of Naples, Italy and President of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV). His scientific activity is focused essentially on research topics in Cosmology, Relativistic Astrophysics, and Physics of Gravitation. He has published more than 350 papers in international journals and is the author of monographs on extended theories of gravity, gravitational lensing, cosmology, and general relativity. Dr. Capozziello is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (World Scientific). He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Central European Journal of Physics (Versita Springer/De Gruyter Open) and Journal of Modern Physics (Scientific Research Publishing) and until December 2012 was a member of the editorial board of The European Physical Journal C (Springer). A. Porzio, CNR - SPIN Institute, Napoli, Italy S. Solimeno, Department of Physics, University of Naples, Italy