CV of Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni - Scienza dei Materiali

CV of Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni
Personal data: born in Milano, 8/11/1954, Italian
citizenship. Married with Marina Lotti, one daugther
(Giulia, born 1987).
Present position: Full Professor of Solid State
Chemistry (2000). Vice-Director of the Department of
Material Science, University of Milano Bicocca (2010-
now).
Address: Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali,
Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 53 - 20125
Milano; Tel. ++39-02-6448 5219; Fax ++39-02-6448
5403. E-mail: gianfranco.pacchioni@mater.unimib.it.
Web-page: http://www.mater.unimib.it/utenti/pacchioni
ResID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-8529-2011
Education: Study of chemistry, University of Milano (1973-1978). Laurea thesis on
“Istituto di Ricerca Montedison G. Donegani", Novara (1978), supervisor Prof. E. Clementi.
Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Physikalische Chemie
(Berlin West) (1981-1984), supervisor Prof. J. Koutecky. Post-doctoral experience: IBM
Almaden Research Center (CA) 1987, supervisor Dr. P. S. Bagus.
Previous appointments: CNR fellowship (1979,1980); Research contract, Institut für
Physikalische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, West Germany (1981-1984); Assistant
Professor (1984-1987) and Associate Professor of Inoganic Chemistry (1987-1996),
Department of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, University of Milano; Associate
Professor of Solid State Chemistry, Department of Material Science, University of Milano-
Bicocca (1997-1999).
Visiting scientist and visiting professor: Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Freie
Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany (1985, 1986); IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose,
California, USA (1988, 1990, 1993); Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, TU München,
Munich, Germany (1993, 1994, 1995); Department de Quimica Fisica, Universitat de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (1998, 1999, 2010); Institut de Chimie Theorique, University of
Paris VI, France (2002); Department of Chemical Physics, Fritz-Haber Institut der MPI,
Berlin, Germany (2005), Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques,
Universitè Paris VI, France (2009), Department of Chemistry, North Texas University,
Denton, USA (2009); Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (2011).
Publications and invited talks: Papers in refereed journals: ≈400; Publications in books:
≈20; Edited books 7, Textbooks 1; Invited lectures: ≈260. Citations: >13600; h-index: 65.
Honors and awards: Alexander von Humboldt fellow (1993); Gold Medal "Raffaello
Nasini", Italian Chemical Society (1994); National Price “Federchimica” (1996); Professor
Visitant Invitat, University of Barcelona (1998-1999); Humboldt Research Award (2005).
Member of the Advisory or Editorial boards of Surface Science (2001-2006), Theoretical
Chemistry Account (2003-now), ChemCatChem (2009-now), Physical Chemistry – An Indian
Journal (2010-now), Physical Review Letters (2012-now), ChemPlusChem (2012-now), The

Scientific World Journal (2012-now), Journal of Materials (2012-now). Editor-in-chief of The
Open Condensed Matter Physcs Journal (2008-2012).
Professional activities and appointments: Director of one NATO Advanced Research
Workshop (1991); Director of three NATO Advanced Study Institutes (1994, 1996, 2000);
Chairman of two CECAM Workshops (1991, 1992); Chairman of one Euroconference
(2002); Coordinator of the PhD program in Chemistry, Univ. Milano Bicocca (2000 – 2003);
Director of the Department of Material Science, University of Milano Bicocca (2003-2009);
Member of the Administration Council of the Consortium CORIMAV for Advanced materials
(2003 – now); Member of the Scientific Council of the “Fondazione Tronchetti Provera”
(2005 – now); Chairman of the COST Action D41 “Inorganic oxide surfaces and interfaces”
(2006-2010); Chairman of the Panel PE5 “Materials and Synthesis” of the European Research
Council (2008, 2010, 2012); Member of the Scientific Council of the Fondazione EnergyLab
(2009 – now); Coordinator of the PhD program in Nanostructures and nanotechnology, Univ.
Milano Bicocca (2010 – now); Director of the Milano Bicocca Solar Energy Research Center
MIB-SOLAR (2010 – now); President of the Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Division of the Italian Chemical Society (2011 – now); Representative of the Italian CNR in
the Council of CECAM – Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (2011 – now);
Member of the Group of Expert Evaluators GEV of ANVUR, national evaluation agency
(2012).
Research projects: PAIS-INFM (1999-2000, national coordinator), PRA-INFM (2000-
2003, national coordinator); PRIN-MIUR (2003-2004, national coordinator); PRIN-MIUR
(2005-2006, national coordinator); European Project FP6 GSOMEN (2005-2007, local
coordinator); CARIPLO (2010-2012, participant); PRIN-MIUR (2011-2012, local
coordinator); FIRB-MIUR (2012-2014, national coordinator).
Major on-going collaborations: Prof. F. Illas (theory), University of Barcelona; Prof. E.
Giamello (exp.), University of Torino; Prof. H.-J. Freund (exp.), Fritz-Haber Institut Berlin;
Prof. U. Heiz (exp.), TU Munich; Prof. P. Marcus, ENS Paris (exp.); Prof. A. Shluger
(theory), University College London; Dr. J. Goniakowski, C. Noguera (theory), Universitè
Paris VI; Prof. A. Selloni (theory), Princeton University.
Teaching activity: Supervisor of more than 30 master thesis and of 15 PhD thesis in
Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science. Member of PhD juries at the Universities of
Leiden (1993), Barcellona (1995, 1999, 2003), Stockholm (1995, 2009), Paris (1998, 2001,
2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Geneve (1999), Lausanne (2001), Lyon (2004),
Göteborg (2005), Berlin (2007, 2010), Leuven (2011), etc. and of habilitation juries (Leiden
1993, Stockholm 1998, Göteborg 2004, Paris 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).
Popular science: He has published several articles for the italian version of Scientific
American. For the Italian Publisher Zanichelli he has published two books, “Idee per
diventare scienziato dei materiali” (2005) and “Quanto è piccolo il mondo – Sorprese e
speranze dalle nanotecnologie” (2007) to popularize materials science and nanotechnology.
Research interest: The activity is directed towards surface science and material science
problems, with particular emphasis on the properties of oxide materials, oxide ultrathin films
and metal nanoclusters. Prof. Pacchioni has a wide experience in the description of defects in
oxides and their spectroscopic properties. From the mid ’90s he has been very active in the
study of small metal clusters and nanoparticles supported on oxide surfaces, their chemical

activity, diffusion and nucleation processes, catalytic properties. Prof. Pacchioni has a special
expertise in the analysis and interpretation of optical, vibrational, and magnetic resonances
spectroscopies. In the field of supported metal clusters he has given important contributions
for the elucidation of the reactivity of metal nanoclusters on ultra-thin films. About one half
of the papers produced in the last 10 years are joined experimental-theoretical studies in this
field.