I am an Italian astrophysicist and I am the director of research on the National Institute of Astrophysics in the city from the managerial point of view I represent enough within the collaboration board from the scientific point of view. I have always been involved in high-energy astrophysics, especially in gamma ray from space. Neutron stars are left over from supernova explosions, remnants of the nucleus of the very massive stars, very magnetized since the neutron star inherited the magnetic field of the primeval star. And also very fast neutron stars are very very fast potatoes once again since they inherit the rotational momentum and the rotational energy of the primeval stars. The identification of gaminga has been a very long story. It took 20 years to go from the first detection to the confirmation of the identification we had proposed. I remember very vividly a telephone call we got from the states, from our god colleague saying that Rosa had seen the pulsation of gaminga. It was 1992 and Igrat had confirmed it. We were very excited of course. It was our source. We always had told colleagues that it was a pulsar, not well behaved since it does not pulsate in radio wavelengths. But it worked like a pulsar, it smelled like a pulsar, it must be a pulsar. At this point we realized right away that we had the Cosby data. And Cosby had looked at the gaminga several times during its seven years long lifetime. And so maybe in the Cosby data the period was present and sure enough the period was there. And since we saw the period several times we were able to compute the period derivative. And so two computes, the overall energetic of the source, thus it's distance confirming what we had suspected was the way that gaminga is very near by object. I've been very lucky in my career. I had several exciting moments. And the one I remember most vividly is when I opened a mail from the editor of an review of a Sonya Astrophysics. The mail said, dear Dr. K, they are given your extensive experience on the Ironician of the Tronstar. We are pleased to invite you to write a review paper on the subject. It was very pleasing for me to say immediately yes. But then I had to provide the manuscript for... I remember was September 2013. I had to devote my summer vacation to writing the paper. After a few evenings spent in such a way, I remember my daughter telling me, well, will it be finished? And I remember telling her, I wanted as much as you do. But eventually I finished it. I am very often requested to give advice to girls at school and to young women at the university. What is the most important quality that help you making your way in the scientific career? And my answer is always the same. You need to be determined. You need to be absolutely confident in your capabilities. It makes the difference. What is important in a career, scientific or otherwise in the world in general, is the confidence you have in yourself and the determination you have to follow your dream and to reach your goals. you