Erio Tosatti's Curriculum Vitae

Updated 18/08/09 Personal Data
Address: SISSA, via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Telephone: work +39-40-3787-438 (-443 secr., -528 fax )
Nationality: Italian
Education

1967
Degree in Physics, University of Modena, cum Laude Thesis: Dispersion relations for pion-nucleon phase shifts (Amati,Russo).

1970
Doctorate in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, magna cum Laude. PhD Thesis: Elementary electronic excitations in anisotropic crystals (Bassani).
Positions held:

1966 Summer student, CERN, Geneva (Rubbia-Steinberger group)
1967-70 Research Fellow and PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1970-71 Second Lieutenant, Weather Forecast Service, Italian Air Forces
1971-77 Staff member, Italian Research Council(CNR), University of Rome
1972-73 Royal Society/NATO Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK (collaborator of P.W.Anderson)
1974 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Visitor, Uni. of Stuttgart,FRG (visitor of H. Haken/S. Nikitine)
1977 Senior NATO Fellow, Stanford University, USA (visitor of S. Doniach)
1977-80 Senior staff member, Italian Research Council (CNR), University of Trieste
1977-80 Professore Incaricato (Lecturer),University of Trieste
1977-present Consultant and Co-organizer ,Condensed Matter Programme, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
1980-present Full Professor, Int'l School For Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste
1980-2008 Founder and Head of the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Int'l School For Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste
1984-85 Visiting Scientist, RCA Zurich and IBM Zurich Research Laboratories
1990-present Deputy Head, Condensed Matter Group, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
1994 Visiting Professor, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1996 Visiting Professor, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1999 Gordon Godfrey Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2001 Visiting Professor, Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian, Spain
2002 Visiting Professor, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2002-2003 Deputy Director and Acting Director, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
2003 Visiting Professor, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2004 Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2006 Visiting Professor, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
2006 Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2007 Visiting Professor, Renmin University, Beijing, China and University of Hong Kong, China.
2008 Visiting Professor, Universite' Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Other Professional Services:

Permanent Board Member, Trieste and Adriatico Research Conferences, ICTP, Trieste
Member, Scientific Review Committee, Kernforschungsanlage Juelich and
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart (1984-86)
World Bank Special Expert, Beijing, China (1985)
Consultant, International Centre for Science, Trieste (1988-90)
Special Consultant, IBM Zurich Research Laboratories (1989-92)
Member, Special NATO Panel on Nanoscale Science (1993-97)
Member, Scientific Review Committee, Fritz-Haber Institute of the
Max-Planck Society, Berlin (1995-2004)
Member, Scientific Review Committee,Institute for Complex Systems of the Max-Planck Society, Dresden (1995-2003)
Member, Scientific Evaluation Committee, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1997)
Member, Scientific Evaluation Committee, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (1997)
Member, Chair Committee, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1999)
Member, Chair Committee, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart (1998-2001)
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Elettra Synchrotron, Trieste (2002-)
Member of the Jury, Francqui Prize, Brussels (2003)
Member, Surface Science Review Committee, Austrian Research Fund, Vienna (2003)
Member, Scientic Evaluation Committee, Spanish Research Council, Madrid (2005)
Member, Scientic Evaluation Committee, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (2005)
Chairman, Chair Committee, SISSA, Trieste (2006)
Member, Search Committee, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart (2006)
Memberships:

Italian Physical Society
European Physical Society
American Physical Society (Fellow, and life member)
Honors:

The Eli Burstein Lecture Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
The Francesco Somaini Triennial Physics Prize, Como, 1997
The Lamina Aurea di Redu', Nonantola, 1999
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2001
Tate Medal for Int'l Leadership in Physics, American Institute of Physics, Washington, 2005
Corresponding Member, Accademia Nazionale del Lincei, Rome, 2006
Major Current Research Interests:

Theory of nanofriction.
Theory of nanosystems, particularly metal nanocontacts.
Theory of superconductivity, metal-insulator transition,
Jahn-Teller effect, and strong electron correlations in fullerenes.
Theory of electronic phase transitions of crystal surfaces.
Metal surface reconstructions and melting.
Theory of quantum annealing.
Theory of matter at ultra-high pressure and temperature.
Theory of quantum paraelectrics.
PhD Theses Supervised, or Co-supervised:

1981 U Soe Yin, "Selected Problems in Electron Spectroscopy of Solids"
1982 Sukajit Leelaprute, "Dielectric Response of Crystals"
1984 Jerzy Glazer, "Exchange Excitations in Magnets by Slow Electrons"
1984 Chun-Da Chen, "Surface State Polarons in Semiconductors"
1986 Cai-Zhuang Wang, " Simulation of Phase Transitions on Tungsten and Molybdenum Surfaces"
1987 Furio Ercolessi, " Molecular Dynamics Studies of Gold: Bulk, Defects, Surfaces, and Clusters"
1988 Anna Bartolini, "Low-index Surface Reconstruction and its Influence on Vicinal Surfaces"
1988 Francesco Ancilotto, "The Crossing of a Barrier in a Magnetic Field"
1989 Xiao-Qian Wang, " Two Topics in Condensed Matter Theory"
1989 Sandro Sorella, "Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations for Strongly Interacting Fermions"
1990 Xiaojie Chen, "New Theoretical Results and Simulations of Surface Melting"
1991 Miklos Gulacsi, "Study and Solution of the Five-Vertex Model"
1992 Michele Fabrizio, "New Results for Interacting Fermi Systems: the 2D Hubbard Model at Low Density, and the Two Coupled Chain Problem"
1992 Giorgio Mazzeo, "A Model of Surface reconstruction and Roughening: a Monte Carlo Study"
1992 Xiao-Qun Wang, " Variational Studies on the Hubbard Model within the FHNC Theory"
1993 Marco Bernasconi, "Ab-initio Calculation of Structural and Electronic Properties of Alpha-Gallium Surfaces"
1993 Roman Martonak, " Models of Quantum Paraelectric Behavior of Perovskites"
1994 Paolo Focher, "First-Principles Studies of Structural Phase Transformations"
1995 Francesco Di Tolla, "Interplay of Melting, Wetting, Overheating, Faceting,on Metal Surfaces: Theory and Simulation"
1995 Nicola Manini, "Electron-Vibron Coupling in Charged Fullerene, Berry Phase, and Superconductivity"
1995 Marco Airoldi, "Selected Problems in Strongly Correlated Electronic Models"
1996 Zhong-Yi Lu, "First-principles Studies of Alpha-Sn Surfaces"
1998 Daniele Passerone "Structural Order and Thermal Disorder at the Surface of selected Crystals: Theory and Simulation"
1999 Alessandro Laio,"Simulation of Iron at Earth's Core Conditions"
2000 Massimo Capone, "The Mott Transition: Role of Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy"
2001 Gerardo Ballabio,"Surprises in the Physics of Germanium Surfaces"
2002 Davide Ceresoli, " Berry Phase Calculation of the Rotational and Pseudorotational g-factor in Molecules and Solids"
Publications (numbers only)

Books (Edited): 11
Original Articles and Review Articles in International Journals: about 460
Scientific Impact:

Citations 1975-2009 (ISI-Web of Science): approx 10.500
Hirsch index H (H papers had more than H citations) approx 53

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