- Luciano Pietronero
Luciano Pietronero (born in
Rome onDecember 15 ,1949 ) is an Italianphysicist (statistical physics) and at the department of Physics at University of Rome "Sapienza". He is also Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of CNR. He is married with two children and lives in Rome.Biography
Luciano Pietronero got his degree in Physics in 1971 in Rome and moved firstly to Xerox Webster research Center and then to Brown Boveri Research Center where he stayed until 1983. After that we moved to Groningen in the Department of Physics as Professor of Condensed Matter Theory. He is presently full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Roma "La Sapienza". In 2004 he founded the CNR Institute of Complex Systems (ISC). The Institute includes more than 200 scientists (in various locations in Rome and Florence) from different groups of CNR, INFM, INOA and Universities. In 2007 he has been the chairman of the 23 edition of STATPHYS conference held in Genova.
Research
He is author of about 350 scientific papers, mostly in the leading international scientific journals: Phys. Rev. Letters; Rev. Mod. Phys.; Nature; Physics Reports; Phys. Rev. B ed E; Europhys. Lett.; Physica A; J. of Physics etc. (Above 5000 ISI citations). Author of a monographic volume and editor of several volumes of proceedings.
ee also
* [http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/twiki/bin/view/Pil/LucianoPietronero Home Page]
* [http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/twiki/bin/view/Pil/PietroneroCurriculum Short CV]
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