CV of Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni - Scienza dei Materiali

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