SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Roberto Cingolani
Roberto Cingolani
is the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Genoa, since 2005. Born in Milan in 1961, he graduated in
Physics at the University of Bari in 1985 and he later obtained his PhD in
Physics at the same University. In 1989 he got the
“Diploma di Perfezionamento” (PhD) in Physics at Scuola
Normale Superiore in Pisa. During the
period from 1989 to 1991 he was staff member at the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in
Stuttgart (Germany). In 1992 he became associated Professor of Physics at the
University of Lecce, where in 2000 he was nominated Professor of General
Physics at the Engineering Faculty. During 1997 he was Visiting Professor at
the Institute of Industrial Sciences at Tokyo University (Japan) and the year
after at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). In 2001 he was the Founder and
Director of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of INFM at Lecce
University.
Author and co-author of about 700 papers on
international journals, he holds about 30 patents and has launched 3 spin-off
companies. During the years he has been in charge of various institutional
roles at national and international levels and he has been awarded by several international
and national awards, among which in 2006 the
title of “Commendatore della Repubblica” by the President of the Italian
Republic and “Premio Guido Dorso”
by the Senate of the Republic, and in 2010 “Premio Grande Ippocrate”.
Photo credits:
Massimo Brega – The
Lighthouse.
