CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Giancarlo Franzese

CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM 

Giancarlo Franzese 

Tenured Professor (Profesor Titular) 

Departament of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona. 

Date: October 31, 2013. All the information included in this document is true to 

the best of my knowledge. Number of pages: 72. 

Short SUMMARY 

Giancarlo Franzese leads a research group on Statistical Physics of Complex Matter 

at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he is Tenured Professor. He got his PhD 

in Physics with honors at the University of Naples and was Associate Researcher at 

the University of Roma Tre, the Boston University, the Second University of Naples 

and the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity of “La Sapienza” University 

of Rome, before moving to Barcelona in 2003. Since 2002 he is Visiting Professor 

at the Boston University Center for Polymer Studies. He has been Visiting Scientist 

at UFRGS Porto Alegre (3 months in 2005-2008), Centre for BioNano Interactions– 

Dublin (3 months in 2009), University of Cambridge (6 months in 2010), International 

Center for Quantum Materials–Beijing (3 weeks in 2012). In 2008 he became Profesor 

Titular at UB. In 2000 he won the CNR Prize for the Results as Young CNR Research 

Fellow Abroadandin2012theUBIncentive Program for the Enhancement of Research 

Activity prize. He was selected as Emerging investigator in soft matter by The Royal 

Society of Chemistry UK in 2012. Since 2011 UB ranks him within the top 5% of its 

faculty members for research. In 2013 he was accredited for being contracted as Full 

Professor in Spain. 

At UB he is coordinator of the Condensed Matter line of the PhD in Physics, 

Professor of the Master of Advanced Physics, Professor of Physics and Professor of

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Biomedical Engineering. He supervised 7 Master theses and 13 PhD theses (with one 

ongoing in each category). He has directed PhD thesis at UB, at Boston University 

andUFRGS.HeisPIinnationalandinternationalprojects,includingaFP7European 

project (of which he is national PI) funded with approximately 1 million euros (shared 

among three groups). He organized 12 international conferences and chaired 5 in the 

last 6 years, on subject including Physical Biology and Molecular Biophysics. He is 

editor of three international journals and referee for 32 of them—including PNAS, 

PlosOne, PRL, JCP—and for eight international grant agencies, including the NSF 

of US, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-UK and the Swiss 

National Science Foundation. 

His research focuses on complex liquids and the role of water in nanoscopic and 

biological systems. He edited “Aspects of Physical Biology: Biological Water, Protein 

Solutions, Transport and Replication” (Springer 2008) and published in highimpact 

journals such as Nature, PNAS, and PRL, with his papers listed among 

the Highly Cited Papers in Physics, the Highly Cited Papers in Chemistry and the 

Core Papers in Liquid Water of the last years 1 . 

His research uses theoretical calculations and numerical simulations, often collaborating 

with experimental groups. He made 77 peer-reviewed publications, including 

book chapters, with 59 papers in international scientific journals, and gave 80 Invited 

Talks. Hewascitedmorethan2100timeswithH-index 27onGoogleScholar(H-index 

23 and average citation per article 24.67 on ISI Web of Knowledge), with citations 

on Science, Nature, PNAS, PlosOne and PRL, receiving interviews on radio and international 

press and doing scientific dissemination (including writing for the Spanish 

edition of Scientific American–Nature Publishing Group) in different languages. 

1 Essential Science Indicators of ISI Web of Knowledge

Contents 

Personal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Present Position and Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Academic History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 

Graduation and Ph.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 

Previous Scientific and Professional Activities . . . . . . . . . 2 

Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Academic Honors and Merits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

Teaching Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

Undergraduate Teaching (first two years: 1st Cycle) . . . . . . 5 

Undergraduate Teaching (second two years: 2nd Cycle) . . . . 6 

Graduate Teaching (3rd Cycle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

Other Teaching Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Master Thesis Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Ph.D. Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Educational Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Coordination of Teaching Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Participation in Ph.D./Master Thesis Defense Committees . . 13 

Teaching Merits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

Merits and Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Seminars . . . . 17 

Member of Scientific Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Session Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Editor of Scientific Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Member of Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Referee Activity for Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Referee Activity for International Science Angency . . . . . . 23 

Participation in University Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

Participation in Committees for Positions and Contracts . . . 24 

Awards, Prizes, Honors and Other Relevant Merits . . . . . . 24 

Research Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

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CONTENTS 

Research Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

Projects as Principal Investigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

Participation in Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

Seminars, Conferences and Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 

Other Research Merits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Scientific Accreditations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Long Research Visits (more than 3 weeks) . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Short Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Large Scientific Facilities Used During the Career . . . . . . . 51 

Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Popular dissemination and Reaching-out . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Press Communications about my Research . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Rank among the Top Scientists in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 

Citation indices: H index = 27, V index = 2.11 (> 1 = success), 

M index = 1.35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 

Personal Impact Factor ≃ 1.5 × PRL Impact Factor . . . . . 58 

ResearchGate Score higher than 87.5% of other members . . . 60 

Listed among Highly Cited Papers in Physics and Chemistry . 60 

Rank among the Core Papers in Liquid Water . . . . . . . . . 61 

Publication List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 

Book Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 

Edited Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 

Conference Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 

Preprints on cond-mat archive (submitted) . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Curriculum Vitae 

Personal Data 

Family Name: Franzese First Name: Giancarlo Sex: Male 

Passport N.: Y434522 

Born in S. Paolo Belsito (Italy), on June 17, 1968 

Home Address: Córsega 435, pral. 1a, 08037 Barcelona 

Tel: +34 932070851 (home), +34 620701781 (mobile) 

Research Areas: Statistical Physics (UNESCO Codes: 220510) 

Present Position and Address 

Since 2008 Feb. 12: Profesor Titular (Tenured Professor), Departament de 

Física Funamental, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Desp. 

4.18, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain 

Since 2002 Ago. 1: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics and Center for 

Polymer Studies, Boston University 

E-mail: gfranzese@ub.edu, Tel.+34 934039212, Fax +34 934021149. 

WEB http://www.ffn.ub.es/gfranzese/ with publications in PDF. 

Languages 

• Italian (mother-tongue) • Spanish, Fluent 

• English, Fluent • Catalan, Civil servant level (Nivel C) 

• French, Basic 

• Portuguese, Basic. 

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Academic History 

Graduation and Ph.D. 

Curriculum Vitae – Giancarlo Franzese 

1993 Jan.: Laurea in Physics, Università “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy; 

Thesis: “Percoltion and Spin Glasses Dynamics”; 

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Coniglio; 

Grade: 110/110 cum Magna Laude (maximum grade) 

1998 Feb.: Ph.D. in Physics, Università “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy; 

Thesis: “Frustrated Systems: Cluster Dynamics and Precursor Phenomena”; 

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Coniglio; 

Grade: Apto cum Laude (maximum grade); 

Date: 5/8/1998. 

Homologation of the degree in Spain: 7/21/2006. 

Previous Scientific and Professional Activities 

1993 Feb. 1 - 1994 Jan. 31: Civil service as Teacher for disables. 

Teaching: Primary education for disables. 

1994 Feb. 1- 1995 Jan. 31: Predoctoral Scholarship, Consiglio Nazionale 

delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Napoli. 

Research: percolación aplicada a medios granulares. 

1995 Mar. 1 - 1998 Feb. 28: Doctorate Scholarship, Università “Federico 

II”, Napoli. 

Research: frustrated systems. 

1998 Mar. 16 - 1999 Mar. 15: Postdoctoral Scholarship, Istituto Italiano 

per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Università di Roma 3. 

Research: nanoscopic systems. 

1999 Mar. 16 - Nov. 15: CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) International 

Research Fellowship at the Boston University. 

Research: disordered systems. 

1999 Nov. 16-2001Jul. 31: AssociateResearcher,BostonUniversityCenter 

for Polymer Studies. 

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Research: water’s anomalies; 

Teaching: co-supervisor of Ph.D. students. 

2001 Ago. 1 - 2002 Jul. 31: Associate Researcher, Dipartimento di Ingegneria 

dell’Informazione, Seconda Università di Napoli. 

Research: soft magnets; 

Teaching: Pysics for Engineers. 

2002 Ago. 1 - present: Visiting Professor, Boston University Center for 

Polymer Studies. 

Research: anomalous liquids. 

Teaching: co-supervisor of Ph.D. students. 

2002 Set. 1 - 2003 Mar. 31: Associate Researcher, Center for Statistical 

Mechanics and Complexity, Istituto Italiano per la Fisica della Materia 

(INFM), Università “La Sapienza”, Roma. 

Research: glassy systems. 

2003 Apr. 1 - 2008 Feb. 11: Ramón y Cayal Fellowship, Departament de 

Física Funamental, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona. 

Research: soft matter. 

Schools 

1. Center: Institute for Theoretical Physics - Eötvös University; Place: 

Budapest (Hungary); Year: 1992; Dates: 21/9- 3/10; Type: Physics 

School; Topic: Complex Systems. 

2. Center: INFM Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia; Place: 

Torino (Italy); Year: 1995; Dates: 2/10 - 12/10; Type: Physics School; 

Topic: Condensed Matter. 

3. Center: International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Società Italyna 

di Fisica; Place: Varenna (Italy); Year: 1996; Dates: 9/7 - 19/7; Type: 

Physics School; Topic: Complex Systems. 

4. Center: Fondazione I.S.I. Istituto per Interscambio Scientifico; Place: 

Torino (Italy); Year: 1996; Dates: 8/9 - 20/9; Type: Physics School; 

Topic: Condensed Matter. 

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5. Center: International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); Place: 

Trieste (Italy); Year: 1997; Dates: 15/7 - 28/7; Type: Physics School; 

Topic: Frustrated Systems. 

6. Center: Institutd’ÉtudesScientifiquedeCargese; Place: Cargese(Francia); 

Year: 1997; Dates: 15/9 - 26/9; Type: Physics School; Topic: 

Granular Matter. 

7. Center: DepartmentofPhysics,CornellUniversity; Place: Ithaca(NY); 

Year: 1998; Dates: 13/7 - 17/7; Type: Physics School; Topic: Quantum 

Monte Carlo. 

8. Center: Center dePhysique Les Houches; Place: Les Houches(France); 

Year: 2003; Dates: 2/3 - 7/3; Type: Physics School; Topic: Disordered 

Systems. 

9. Center: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research; 

Place: Bangalore (India); Year: 2004; Dates: 25/6 - 26/6; Type: 

Physics School; Topic: Glassy Systems. 

Academic Honors and Merits 

1993: Pre-doctoral Habilitation, CNR (Italy). 

1993: Admission to the Ph.D. course of the University “La Sapienza”, Roma. 

1993: Admission to the Ph.D. course of the University of Tor Vergata, Roma. 

1993: Admission to the Ph.D. course of the University of Salerno. 

1993: Admission to the Ph.D. course of the University of L’Aquila. 

1993: Admission to the Ph.D. course of the University of Modena. 

1994: Winner of a 9 months Scholarship for the Boston University. 

1998: Posdoctoral Habilitation, CNR (Italy). 

1998: Habilitation as Researcher, INFM (Italy). 

2003: Qualification aux fonctions de Maïtre de confèrences, France. 

2004: Qualification aux fonctions de Professeur d’Universitè, France. 

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2007: Habilitación Nacional para el acceso al Cuerpo Docente de Profesor 

Titular de Universidad, Área de Conocimiento: Física de la Materia 

Condensada (Código 2/395/2005), Spain. 

2009: Positive Evaluation for Research Activity during the years 1994–1999 

by the Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora 

(CNEAI), Spain. 





by the Comisió per a l’Acreditació de la Recerca de l’Àmbit de Ciències 

(AQU), Catalunya. 










2013: Positive Accreditation, by Comisió per a l’Acreditació de la Recerca 

de l’Àmbit de Ciències (AQU) for being contracted as Full Professor, 

Catalunya. 

Teaching Records 

Undergraduate Teaching (first two years: 1st Cycle) 

2001-2002: 10 hours of Introductory Course to Physics for Engineers, Seconda 

Università di Napoli. 

2002-2003: 30 hours of II-year Physics Course for Engineers, Seconda Università 

di Napoli. 

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2007-2008: 30 hours of Course of Mechanics and Waves for Physicists, Universidad 

de Barcelona. 

2008-2009: 30 hours of Mechanics and Waves Laboratory for Physicists, Universidad 

de Barcelona. 

2008-2009: 60hoursofMechanicsandWavesforPhysicists,UniversidaddeBarcelona. 

2010-2011: 85 hours of Introduction to Mechanics, Waves, Fluids and Thermodynamics 

for Biomedical and Electronic Engineers, including Coordination 

of the course, Universidad de Barcelona. 


for Biomedical and Electronic Engineers, including Coordination 

of the course, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2012-2013: 30 hours of Introduction to Waves, Fluids and Thermodynamics for 

Physicists, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2012-2013: 15 hours of Coordination of the course of Introduction to Mechanics, 

Waves, Fluids and Thermodynamics for Biomedical and Electronic Engineers, 

Universidad de Barcelona. 


for Biomedical and Electronic Engineers, Universidad de 

Barcelona. 

Undergraduate Teaching (second two years: 2nd 

Cycle) 

2003-2004: 18 hours of Quantum Physics Laboratory, Universidad de Barcelona. 


2004-2005: 30 hours of Course of Statistical Physics, Universidad de Barcelona. 


2005-2006: 30 hours of Course of Statistical Physics, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2006-2007: 30 hours of Advanced Statistical Physics Laboratory, Universidad de 

Barcelona. 

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2nd Cycle 

3rd Cycle: Master, PhD 

Total Teaching 

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2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 

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Figure 1: Teaching by G. Franzese in 2001– 2013. 

2006-2007: 30 hours of Course of Advanced Statistical Physics, Universidad de 

Barcelona. 

2006-2007: 15 hours of Coordination of Advanced Statistical Physics Laboratory, 




Barcelona. 


Barcelona. 

2007-2008: 15 hours of Coordination of the Advanced Statistical Physics Laboratory, 




Barcelona. 


Barcelona. 

2008-2009: 15 hours of Coordination of the Advanced Statistical Physics Laboratory, 


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2011-2012: 30 hours of Physics of Fluids Laboratory, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2012-2013: 42 hours of Course of Collective Phenomena and Phase Transitions, 


2012-2013: 8 hours of Course of Collective Phenomena and Phase Transitions Laboratory, 


2012-2013: 8 hours of Final Graduation Thesis, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2013-2014: 12 hours of Physics of Continuous Media Laboratory, Universidad de 

Barcelona. 

2013-2014: 42 hours of Course of Collective Phenomena and Phase Transitions, 


2013-2014: 8 hours of Course of Collective Phenomena and Phase Transitions Laboratory, 


2013-2014: 8 hours of Final Graduation Thesis, Universidad de Barcelona. 

Graduate Teaching (3rd Cycle) 

2003-2004: 15 hours of Course on Complex Systems, Advanced Physics Ph.D. Program 

of Excellence, Universidad de Barcelona. 





2006-2007: 15 hours of Course on Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, 

Master on Computational and Applied Physics, Universidad de 

Barcelona and Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña. 




2007-2008: 10 hours of supervising the End of Course Works for the Master on 

Computational and Applied Physics, Universidad de Barcelona and 

Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña. 

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2008-2009: 15 hours of Coordination of the Condensed Matter Ph.D. Program, 



















Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Universidad de Barcelona. 



2013-2014: 20 hours of Course on Phase Transitions Dynamics and Disordered 

Systems, Master on Advanced Physics, Universidad de Barcelona. 



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Other Teaching Activities 

1993 Feb. - 1994 Jan.: Primary teaching for disables. 

1993: Course of Introduction to Physics for high-school students, Fondazione 

IDIS, Città della Scienza, Napoli. 

Master Thesis Director 

2009: Pol Vilaseca Mainar, Master in “Computational and Applied Physics” 

Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, “Behaviour 

of the Anomalous Regions of the Continuous Shouldered Well 

Isotropic Soft-core Potential”. 

2009: Adrián Hernando Martínez, Master in “Computational and Applied 

Physics” Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, 

“Percolation Analysis of Supercooled Water”. 

2009: Svilen Iskrov, Master “Phytem”, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and 

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, “Cold Denaturation of Protein 

in Water”. 

2011: Oriol Vilanova, Master in “Computational and Applied Physics” Departament 

de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, “Structural 

and Dynamical Properties of Nanoconfined Supercooled Water”. 

2011: Cristian Esplugas, Master in “Biophysics” Departament de Física Fonamental, 

Universitat de Barcelona, “A coarse-grained model for water 

in hydrophobic confinement.” 

2011: Dafna Mathov, Master in “Computational and Applied Physics” Departament 

de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, “Simulations 

of nanoconfined water.” 

2013: AlbaPayes, Masterin“AdvancedPhysics”DepartamentdeFísicaFonamental, 

Universitat de Barcelona, “Glassy behavior of liquid metals.” 

Ph.D. Supervision 

1999: (Sep. 2002), Masako Yamada, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics 

Department, Boston University, “Crystallization, Liquid-Liquid Phase 

Transition and Relaxation in Supercooled Water”. 

Present Address: General Electric Research Laboratories. 

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1999: (Jan. 2003), Anna Skibinsky, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Chemistry 

Department, Boston University, “Modeling Liquid-Liquid Phase 

Transitions and Quasicrystal Formation”. 

Present Address: US Patent Office, Washington, DC. 

2000: (Jan. 2004), Nicolas Giovambattista, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, 

Physics Department, Boston University, “Static and dynamic heterogeneities 

in water”. 

Present Address: Brooklyn College 

2003: (Ago. 2007), Pradeep Kumar, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics 

Department, Boston University, “Cooperativity of water in the supercooled 

phase”. 

Present Address: Rockefeller University 

2004: (Ago. 2007), Limei Xu, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics Department, 

Boston University, “The liquid-liquid phase transition and 

protein crystallization” 

Present Address: Peking University 

2005: (Set. 2007), HeitorC.MarquesFernandes,co-directedwithProf. Jeferson 

J. Arenzon y Prof. Yan Levin, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande 

do Sul, Brazil (8-months staying at the Universidad de Barcelona), 

“Complex liquids of biological interest”. 

Present Address: Universidade Católica de Pelotas 

2005: (Jan. 2009) Marco G. Mazza, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics 

Department, Boston University, “Water in the supercooled phase: heterogeneity 

and phase diagram”. 

Present Address: University of Göttingen 

2006: (Jan. 2008), Aline Lopes Balladares, co-directed with Prof. Marcia 

C. Barbosa, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande 

do Sul, Brazil (12-months staying at the Universidad de Barcelona), 

“Water and anomalous liquids”. 

Present Address: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 

2008: (Apr. 2012), Elena G. Strekalova, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, 

Physics Department, Boston University, “Effects of confinement on the 

thermodynamics of supercooled water”. 

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Present Address: Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) 

2006: (Aug. 2012), Kevin Stokely, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics 

Department, Boston University, “Thermodynamics and Dynamics of 

Supercooled Water”. 

Present Address: Columbia University 

2007: (March 2013), Jiayuan Luo, co-directed with H. E. Stanley, Physics 

Department, Boston University, “Variational approach to isotropic potential 

for anomalous liquids”. 

2009: (July 2013), Valetino Bianco, Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat 

de Barcelona, “Water at interfaces”. 

2011: (ongoing), Oriol Vilanova, Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat 

de Barcelona, “Protein adsorbtion on Nanoparticles”. 

Educational Projects 

1999 - 2001 Collaboration to the Educational Project for the High School Water 

and Molecular Networks, Boston University. 

2005 - 2006: Participation to the constitution of the Master on Computational and 

AppliedPhysics,UniversidaddeBarcelonaandUniversidadPolitècnica 

de Cataluña. 

2005 - 2006: Participation to the constitution of the Master of Nanocience and Nanotechnology, 

Universidad de Barcelona 

2010 - 2011: Participation to the constitution of the Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate 

course, School of Medicine, Universidad de Barcelona 

2012 - 2013: Participation to the constitution of the Master of Advanced Physics, 

Universidad de Barcelona 

Coordination of Teaching Activities 

2006 - 2008: Coordination of the Advanced Statistical Physics Laboratory, Universidad 

de Barcelona 

2007 - 2008: Coordination of Course on Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, 

Master on Computational and Applied Physics, Universidad 

de Barcelona and Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña. 

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2008 - 2009: Coordination of the Fundamental Physics Ph.D. Program, Universidad 

de Barcelona 

2009: 19-25 May, Organization of the Course “Advanced Topics in Molecular 

Simulations”, by Prof. F. W. Starr (Wesleyan University), within 

the Master on Computational and Applied Physics, Universidad de 


2009: 15-18 June, Organization of the Course “Slow dynamics and structural 

arrest in supercooled liquids and other disordered systems”, by Prof. 

Srikanth Sastry (JawaharLal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 

Bangalore), within the Condensed Matter Ph.D. Program, Universidad 

de Barcelona. 

2010 - present: Coordination of the Condensed Matter Physics Ph.D. Program, Universidad 

de Barcelona 

2010 - present: Coordination of the Introduction to Mechanics, Waves, Fluids and 

Thermodynamics for Biomedical and Electronic Engineers, Universidad 

de Barcelona 

2011: 4-12 April, Organization of the Course “Selected Topics in Soft Matter”, 

by Prof. Jure Dobnikar (University of Cambridge), within the 

MasteronComputationalandAppliedPhysics,UniversidaddeBarcelona 

and Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña 

2012: 14-21 Sept, Organization of the Course “Simulations in Nanoscience”, 

by Prof. Sergey V. Buldyrev (Yeshiva University), within the Master 

of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the PhD in Nanoscience and 

Nanotechnology, Universidad de Barcelona. 

Participation inPh.D./Master Thesis Defense Committees 

2004: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Adan Amor Garriga 

Torres: “Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Simple Models for Structural 

Glasses”, Universidad de Barcelona. Other members: Professor 

D. Jou Mirabent, Departamento de Física, Universidad Autonoma de 

Barcelona; Professor P. Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King’s 

CollegeLondon,UniversityofLondon; Dr. J.Kurchan,PMMH-ESPCI, 

ÉcoleSuperérieuredePhysiqueetChimieIndustrielles,Paris; Professor 

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I. Pagonabarraga Mora, Departamento de Física Funamental, Universidad 

de Barcelona. 

2007: Secretary of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Maria Mañosas 

Castejon: “Mechanical Folding/Unfolding of RNA molecules: ExperimentalFactsandThereticalModels”, 

UniversidaddeBarcelona. Other 

members: ProfessorD.NavajasNavarro,UnitatdeBiofísicaiBioenyeneria 

de la Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona; Dr. V. Croquette, 

Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’ECN, CNRS, Paris; 

Dra. S. Cocco, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’ECN, CNRS, 

Paris; Professor P. Tarazona, Departamento de Física Teorica y Materia 

Condensada, Universidad Atónoma de Madrid. 

2007: Deputy Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Ricardo 

PalomarPolo: “SimulacióperDinàmicaMoleculardeLíquidosMolecularsSobrerefredats”, 

UniversidadPolitècnicadeCataluña. Othermembers: 

Professor D. J. A. Padró Càrdenas, Departament de Física Funamental, 

Universitat de Barcelona; Professor E. Guardia Manuel, Departament 

de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de 

Catalunya; Dra. M. A. Arbe Mèndez, Unidad de Física de Materiales, 

CenterMixtoCSIC-UPV/EHU;ProfessorProfessorJ.L.TamaritMur, 

Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de 

Catalunya. 

2008: President of the Master Thesis Defense Committee for the Master on 


UniversidadPolitècnicadeCataluña. Othermembers: ProfessorDaniel 

CrespoArtiaga,DepartamentdeFísicaAplicada,UniversitatPolitècnica 

deCatalunya; ProfessoraAnnaSerraTort,DepartamentdeMatemàtica 

Aplicada III Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 

2008 -2011: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Antoni 

Luque Santolaria, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada de la 

Facultad de Física. 

2008 -2011: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Ricard 

Matas Navarro, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada 

de la Facultad de Física. 

2009: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Nicolas Dorsaz: 

“A Colloidal Approach to Eye Lens Protein Mixtures: Relevance for 

CataractFormation”,EcolePolytechniqueFederaledeLausanneEPFL. 

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Other members: Professor G. Gremaud, Group of mechanical spectroscopy, 

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL; Professor 

K.Dawson, SchoolofChemistryandChemicalBiology, UniversityCollege 

Dublin; Professor G. Dietler, Laboratory of the Physics of Living 

Matter, Institute of Physics and Soft Matter, EPFL. 

2009: Member of the Postdoctoral Fellowship (Assegno di Ricerca) Monitoring 

Committee for Dr. Carmelo Corsaro, for Condesed Matter at the 

Physics Department of the Università degli Studi di Messina. 

2010 -2012: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for 

María Aznar Palenzuela, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada 


2011: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Andrzej Fima: 

“Slowed Dynamics Near Dynamical Arrest”, School of Chemistry and 

Chemical Biology, University College Dublin. Other members: Professor 

E. Waghorne, School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University 

College Dublin; Professor K. Dawson, School of Chemistry and 

Chemical Biology, University College Dublin. 

2011 -2013: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Sivio 

René Morales Suárez, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada 


2011 -2013: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Ivan 

Latella, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada de la Facultad 

de Física. 

2011 -2013: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Francisco 

Alarcon Aseguera, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada 


2011: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Miquel Alexandre 

García Ratés “Dynamics and structure of liquids under special 

conditions: Water confined in giant polyoxometalates and CO 2 -brine 

mixtures”, Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i 

Virgili, Tarragona. Other members: Professor Florian Müller-Plathe, 

Technische Universität Darmstadt; Professor Allan Mackie, Universitat 

Rovira i Virgili; Professor Josep Maria Poblet Rius, Universitat 

Rovira i Virgili; Dr. Carlos Nieto-Draghi, Institut Français du Pétrole 

Energies Nouvelles. 

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2012: Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Aoughus Lawlor: 

“Simulations of Lattice Glass Models and Dynamical Heterogeneity”, 

School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin. 

Other members: Professor E. Waghorne, School of Chemistry and 

Chemical Biology, University College Dublin; Professor K. Stanton, 

SchoolofElectrical, Electronic andMechanicalEngineering, University 

College Dublin; Professor N. English, School of Chemical & Bioprocess 

Engineering, University College Dublin. 

2012 -2015: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for Pol 

Colomer de Simon, Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada de 

la Facultad de Física. 

2013: Deputy Member of the Ph.D. Thesis Defense Committee for Maria 

Aznar Palenzuela: “Nucleación y autoensamblaje en sistemas físicos y 

biológicos”, Universidad de Barcelona. 

2013 -present: Coordinator of the Ph.D. Thesis Monitoring Committee for 

all the students of the Doctorado de Física de la Materia Condensada 


Teaching Merits 

2008: ConsolidatedTeachingSegment(Quiquennium2003-2008)reconignized 

by Univerversitat de Barcelona 

2011: The student Oriol Vilanova wins the award for The Best Master Thesis 

in “Computational and Applied Physics” in Barcelona, under the 

direction of Giancarlo Franzese. 

2011: The student Elena G. Sterkalova wins the PROVOST AWARD at the 

Boston University “Science and Engineering Day poster competition”, 

for her work under the co-direction of Giancarlo Franzese. 

2013: ConsolidatedTeachingSegment(Quiquennium2008-2013)reconignized 

by Univerversitat de Barcelona 

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Merits and Honors 


Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Seminars 

1999 - 2001: Coordinator of the weakly seminars of the Boston University 

Center for Polymer Studies. 

2003 - 2005: Coordinator of the weakly seminars of the Statistical Physics 

Group of Departamento de Física Fundamental de la Universidad de 

Barcelona. 

2006 Jun. 5-9: Member of the Organization Committee (with M. Naspreda 

and M. Rubí) of the XX Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics: 

“Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior”, 

Sitges (with more than 150 participants from 14 countries of 4 continents). 

2006 Oct. 4-6: Member of the Organization Committee (with M.C. Miguel, 

I.PagonabbarragaandM.Rubí)oftheWorkshop on Complex Systems, 

Barcelona (network funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya with 2 

France universities, 2 Italian universities and 2 Spanish universities). 

2008 Jun. 2-6: Member of the Organization Committee (with D. Reguera 

and M. Rubí) of the XXI Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics 

“Statistical mechanics of molecular biophysics.”, Sitges (with 100 

participants from 23 countries of 4 continents). 

2009 Jun. 18 - 19: Organizer (Co-Chair with D. Reguera) of BCNucleation 

– Agregation Workshop , Barcelona. 

2009 Aug. 30 - Sep. 5: Organizer (Co-Chair with S. Sastry) of a “Honorary 

Symposium for H. E. Stanley” within the 6th International Discussion 

Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Rome. 

2010 Jun. 7-11: Member of the Organization Committee (with D. Reguera 

and M. Rubí) of the XXII Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics 

“Energy Conversion: From Nanomachines to Renewable Sources.”, 

Sitges. 

2011 Mar. 18 - 19: Member of the Organization Committee (with A.-L. 

Barabasi, M. C. Barbosa, D. Campbell, S. C. Glotzer, J. Luo, S. Sastry, 

L. Xu) of Horizons in Emergence & Scaling (HES), Boston. 

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2011 Apr. 18-19: Organizer(Co-ChairwithI.Pagonabarraga)ofWorkshop 

on Self-Assembly, Barcelona. 

2011 Junio 2-4: Member of the Local Organization Committee (with Marta 

Ibañes, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Jordi Martí) of the XVII National Congress 

of Statistical Physics, FisEs, organized by Elvira Guàrdia and Ignacio 

Pagonabarraga, Barcelona. 

2012 Jun. 4-8: Member of the Organization Committee (with I. Pagonabarraga, 

A. Pérez, D. Reguera and M. Rubí) of the XXIII Sitges Conference 

On Statistical Mechanics “Understanding and Managing Randomness 

in Physics, Chemistry and Biology”, Sitges. 

2013 Feb. 7-8: Member (Chair) of the Organization Committee (with J. 

Faraudo, E. Guardia, J. Martì) of the WaterSpain, Zaragosa. 

2013 Jul. 21 - 26: Organizer (Chair) of the “Water and Hydrogen Bond 

Systems” session within the 7th International Discussion Meeting on 

Relaxations in Complex Systems, Barcelona. 

Member of Scientific Committees 

2005 XX Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics: “Physical Biology: 

from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior”, Sitges, 5-9 Jun. 

2006. 

Scientific Committee: 

D. Bedeaux (Universiteit Leiden) 

G. Franzese (Universitat de Barcelona) 

S. Kjelstrup (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 

M. Rubí (Universitat de Barcelona) 

2006 Workshop on Complex Systems, Barcelona, 4-6 Oct. 2006. 



M. C. Miguel (Universitat de Barcelona) 

I. Pagonabarraga (Universitat de Barcelona) 


2007 XXI Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Statistical mechanics 

of molecular biophysics.”, Sitges, Junio 2007. 



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D. Reguera (Universitat de Barcelona) 


2009 BCNucleation – Agregation Workshop , Barcelona, 18-19 Jun. 2009 




2009 Honorary Symposium for H. E. Stanley at the 6th International Discussion 

Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Rome, Ago. 30 - 

Sep. 5, 2009 



S. Sastry (JawaharLal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 

Bangalore) 

2010 XXII Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Energy Conversion: 

From Nanomachines to Renewable Sources.”, Sitges, Jun. 2010. 





D. Bedeaux (Universitat de Leiden) 

2011 Workshop on Self-Assembly, Barcelona, April 18-19, 2011 



I. Pagonabarraga (Universitat de Barcelona) 

2012 XXIII Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Understanding and 

Managing Randomness in Physics, Chemistry and Biology”, Sitges, 

Jun. 2012. 





D. Bedeaux (Universitat de Leiden) 

2012 BIONEUTRON 2012, Neutron Scattering Highlights on Water and Biological 

Systems, Taormina, May 26-29, 2012. 



with other 33 researchers from 25 institutes of 9 countries. 

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2012 WaterSpain , Zaragosa, Feb. 7-8, 2013. 



J. Faraudo (Universitat Autonoma de Bareclona) 

E. Guardia and J. Martì (Universitat Politecnoca de Catalunya). 

2012 7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, 

“Water and Hydrogen Bonded Systems” session, Barcelona, Jul. 

21 - 26, 2013. 


G. Franzese (Universitat de Barcelona). 

Session Chairman 

1. Workshop on Complex Systems, Barcelona, 4-6 October 2006. 

2. XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics 

STATPHYS23, Genova, Jul. 9 - 13, 2007. 

3. Glassy Liquids Under Pressure: Fundamentals and Applications, ESF 

Workshop, Ulstron, Oct. 11 - 13, 2007. 

4. Honorary Symposium for H. E. Stanley at the 6th International Discussion 

Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Rome, Ago. 30 - 

Sep. 5, 2009. 

5. Workshop “Complex Energy Landscapes: Computational and Statistical 

Methods of Soft matter ”, Zaragoza, Jun. 3-4, 2010. 

6. Workshop on Self-Assembly, Barcelona, Apr. 18-19, 2011. 

7. Complexitat.CAT, Barcelona, May 2, 2011. 

8. CECAM Workshop: “Models for Bulk, Confined Water and Aqueous 

Solutions Upon Supercooling: State of the Art and Future Perspectives 

in Understanding Water Anomalies by Computer Simulations”, Lausanne, 

Jul. 4-6, 2011. 

9. Protein and Peptide Conference (PepCon-2012), Beijing, Mar. 23-25, 

2012. 

2013 WaterSpain , Zaragosa, Feb. 7-8, 2013. 

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Editor of Scientific Books 

1. “Aspects of Physical Biology: Biological Water, Protein Solutions, 

Transport and Replication” Series: Lecture Notes in Physics , Vol. 

752, G. Franzese and M. Rubi (Eds.), Springer Berlin 2008, 280 p., 

ISBN: 978-3-540-78764-8. 

Member of Editorial Board 

2012 Editor of Dataset Papers in Condensed Matter Physics 2 

2012 Associate Editor of ScienceJet 3 

2013 ReviewEditorofFrontiersinPhysicalChemistryandChemicalPhysics 4 

Referee Activity for Scientific Journals 

1999 - ongoing: Physical Review Letters. 

1999 - ongoing: Physical Review B. 

1999 - ongoing: Physica A. 

2001 - ongoing: Journal of Phase Equilibria. 

2001 - ongoing: Physics Letters A. 

2003 - ongoing: Physical Review E. 

2006 - ongoing: The European Physical Journal B. 

2006 - ongoing: Journal of Chemical Physics. 

2006 - ongoing: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 

2006 - ongoing: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 

2006 - ongoing: Measurement Science and Technology. 

2007 - ongoing: Physica Scripta. 

2 http://www.hindawi.com/journals/dpis/editors/cmp/ 

3 http://www.cognizure.com/sj.aspxb=7 under “Editorial Board”: Section: 

Physics > Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Science and Technology > Sub-Category: 

Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. 

4 http://www.frontiersin.org/Physical_Chemistry_and_Chemical_Physics/ 

editorialboard 

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2007 - ongoing: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 

2008 - ongoing: Il Nuovo Cimento B. 

2008 - ongoing: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

2008 - ongoing: ChemPhysChem 

2008 - ongoing: International Journal of Liquid State Sciences (IJLSS) 

2008 - ongoing: Molecular Physics 

2009 - ongoing: Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. 

2009 - ongoing: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 

2009 - ongoing: New Journal of Physics. 

2009 - ongoing: Europhysics Letters. 

2010 - ongoing: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 

2010 - ongoing: Soft Matter. 

2010 - ongoing: Chemical Communications. 

2010 - ongoing: Philosophical Magazine. 

2012 - ongoing: PlosOne. 

2012 - ongoing: The Biophysical Journal. 

2013 - ongoing: RSC Advances. 

2013 - ongoing: Langmuir. 

2013 - ongoing: Frontiers in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. 

2013 - ongoing: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 

2013 - ongoing: Materials Chemistry and Physics. 

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Referee Activity for International Science Angency 

2008 - ongoing: National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. 

2009 - ongoing: Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica 

(ANPCyT), Argentina. 

2010 - ongoing: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP), 

España. 

2010 - ongoing: Czech Science Foundation (CSF), CZ. 

2012 - ongoing: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP- 

SRC), UK. 

2012 -ongoing: Agènciade Gestiód’AjutsUniversitariside Recerca(AGAUR), 

Catalunya. 

2012 - ongoing: Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (AN- 

VUR), Italy. 

2013 - ongoing: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Confederation. 

2013 - ongoing: Agència Valenciana d’Avaluació i Prospectiva (AVAP), Comunidad 

Valenciana. 

Participation in University Committees 

1995 - 1996: Delegate of the Ph.D. students of the Dipartimento di Física 

de la Università “Federico II”, Napoli. 

1996 - 1997: Vice-president of the Italian National Ph.D. Students Association. 

2006: Deputy Member of the Electoral Table of the Facultad de Física for the 

election of the 2006 Cloister (the highest council et the Universitat de 

Barcelona). 

2006: Delegateof“RamónyCajal”ResearcheresattheUniversitatdeBarcelona. 

2008 - ongoing: Member of the Committee of Ph.D. Physics Studies of the 

Universitat de Barcelona. 

2008 - ongoing: Member of the Committee of the Ph.D. Programs of the 

Facultad de Física of the Universitat de Barcelona. 

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2008 - ongoing: Delegate of the Facultad de Física in the Technical Committee 

of Experimental and Mathematical Sciences of the Universitat 

de Barcelona. 

2009: Deputy Member of the Electoral Table of the Facultad de Física for the 

student referendum of the Universitat de Barcelona. 

2011 - ongoing: Member of the Biomedical Engineering School Council of 

the Universitat de Barcelona. 

Participation in Committees forPositions and Contracts 

2009: Member of the Selection Committee for a position of Assistant Professor 

in Physics of Condensed Matter at the Departament de Física 

Funamental of the Facultat de Física of the Universitat de Barcelona. 

Awards, Prizes, Honors and Other Relevant Merits 

1993: Magna Laude in Physics, Università “Federico II”, Napoli. 

2000: CNR Prize (Italy) for the Results as Young CNR Research Fellow 

Abroad. 

1998: Scholarship to attend StatPhys20, París, France. 

2001: Scholarship to attend StatPhys21, Cancun, Mèjico. 

2004: Scholarship to attend StatPhys22, Bangalore, India. 

2005 – 2009: Associate Researcher to the Grupo Consolidado de la Generalitat 

de Catalunya “BioSmall: Biofísica de sistemas pequeños” (BioSmall: 

Biophysics of small systems) 

2005 – 2007: Biography included by Marquis Who’s Who editors (New Providence, 

NJ) in: 

1. Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 8th Ed. (2005); 

2. Who’s Who in the World, 24th Ed. (2006); 

3. Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 9th Ed. (2006); 

4. Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders, 1st Ed. (2007); 

5. Who’s Who in Sciences Higher Education, international on-line 

database at AcademicKeys.com (2007). 

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2006: Associate Researcher to the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 

(IN2UB) of the Universitat de Barcelona. 

2006: Recommended by the Consejo Inter-Universitario de Cataluña (Inter- 

University Catalan Council) to the European Commission as an expert 

on “Statistical Physics, Nanophysics, Soft Matter, Liquids, Complex 

Systems, Biophysics” to: 

1. evaluate project proposals in the 6th Framework Program; 

2. evaluate projects funded by the Framework Programs; 

3. supervise and evaluate the research policy and the research programs. 

2009 – present: Associate Researcher to the Grupo Consolidado de la Generalitat 

de Catalunya “Física Estadística” (Statistical Physics). 

2010: Designated by the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory 

(INL) as Distinguished Researcher in Spain. 

2011: Ranked AA 5 for research output and input of the last five years within 

the internal evaluation system of the University of Barcelona. 



2012: Incentive Program for the Enhancement of Research Activity Award of 

the University of Barcelona. 

2012: Selected by the Editorial Board of Soft Matter, journal of The Royal 

Society of Chemistry UK, as Emerging investigator in soft matter and 

invited to publish on a special issue of the journal (vol. 9, 2013). 



Research Activities 

Research Topics 

1992 - 1998: Clusters in spin glasses 

Theoretical study of noble metal alloys with magnetic impurities, that 

5 On a scale ranging from AA (top) to DD (bottom) corresponding to the top 5% of 

faculty members. www.ub.edu/biologia/equip_deganal/docs/pda.pdf 

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turns out to be the paradigm of slow systems as consequence of the 

abundance of metastable states. 

Research on: 

a: Efficient Cluster Monte Carlo dynamics. 

b: Invasion Percolation (Self Organized Criticality) Monte Carlo dynamics. 

Research articles in colaboration with: V. Cataudella (6), R. 

Chirone (1), A. Coniglio (6), M. Nicodemi (4), P. Salatino (1), A. Scala 

(4) (Università “Federico II”, Napoli). 

Production: 4 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PRL, PRE) + 3 

Conference Proceedings. 

1996 - 2000: Frustrated Percolation and Glass Transition 

Theoretical approach with Monte Carlo methods and Frustrated Percolation 

to the dynamics and thermodynamics aspects of the Glass 

Transition. 

a: Geometrical characterization of the Frustrated Percolation. 

b: Study of the precursor phenomena of the Glass Transition. 

c: Analysis of the Potts Spin Glass and role of the Griffiths’ Temperature. 

Research articles in colaboration with: A. Coniglio (5), A. de 

Candia (2), A. Fierro (2) (Università “Federico II”, Napoli). 

Production: 7 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PRE, JPA) (with 2 

single-author papers). 

1998 - 2005: Solid State Complex Materials 

Weconsider: (1) SuperconductingJosephson’sJunctionsand thestudy 

oftheproximityeffectundertheeffectofamagneticfieldatlowtemperature, 

and analysis of the induced next-nearest-neighbors frustration. 

We found a new reentrant Kosterliz - Thouless - Berezinskii phase transition. 

(2) Kondo effect in metal nanoparticles, with a Quantum Monte 

Carlo study of the parity effect due to the electrons’ discrete energy 

levels in a metal nanoparticle. We studied how the Kondo effect, i.e. 

the magnetic susceptibility saturation of an impurity, changes under 

these conditions. (3) Elastomagnetic systems, with a theoretical and 

experimental study of the concentration effects in the linear response 

of new compounds of magnetic microparticles dispersed in silicon. Our 

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goal was to optimize the production and the application of these new 

compounds. 

Research articles in colaboration with: G. Ausanio (1), V. Cataudella 

(2) L. De Arcangelis (1), R. Fazio (3) V. Iannotti (1), S.E. Korshunov 

(2), L. Lanotte (1), C. Luponio Jr. (1), R. Raimondi (1) 

(Landau Institute Moscow, or Un. Napoli, or Un. Catania - S.N. Pisa 

- SISSA Trieste, or Un. Roma III). 

Production: 4 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PRB, EPL). 

2000 - ongoing: Phase diagram of water and other anomalous liquids 

Water, silica and other liquids establish a dynamic bond-network that 

is related to their anomalies. I developed a model and I studied its 

phase diagram with analytic and Monte Carlo methods, clarifying that 

the bond correlation implies the coexistence between two liquids with 

different densities and the existence of a liquid-liquid critical point. 

Research articles in colaboration with: S. Ancherbak (1), M. C. 

Barbosa (1), A. Barros de Oliveira (1), V. Bianco (3), S. V. Buldyrev 

(7), S.-H. Chen (2), S. Han (1), S. Havlin (1), H. J. Herrmann (3), T. 

Kesselring (3), P. Kumar (5), E. Lascaris (2), J. Luo (1), F. Mallamace 

(3), M. I. Marqués (1), M. Mazza (7), P. Netz (1), V. Plerou (1), T. 

Preis (1), R. Ruberto (1), F. de los Santos (2), H.E. Stanley (21), K. 

Stokely (5), E. Strekalova (2), L. Xu (2), M. Yamada (1), Z. Yan (2), 

O. Vilanova (2), P. Vilaseca (2) (Boston Un., or MIT, or Un. Messina, 

or Un. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, or Un. de Granada). 

Production: 20 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PNAS, PRL, PRE, 

JCP) + 5 Books Chapters + 4 Conference Proceedings + 3 preprints 

(8 as first author; 1 as single author; 12 as leading author). 

2000 -ongoing: Liquid-liquid phase transitions and liquids without anomalies 

Withanalyticandmoleculardynamicssimulationstechniques,westudy 

thepossibility of a liquid-liquid phase transition in systems such as protein 

solutions, liquid metals or colloids, that do not necessarily display 

density anomalies. 

Research articles in colaboration with: S. V. Buldyrev (7), N. 

Giovambattista (2), G. Malescio (7), G. Pellicane (1), R. Sadr-Lahijany 

(2), A. Scala (2), A. Skibinsky (7), H.E. Stanley (7), (Boston Un., or 

Un. Messina) 

Production: 6 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (Nature, PRE) + 1 

Book Chapter (2 as first author). 

2002 - ongoing: Glass Transition and Energy Landscape 

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We study the Glass Transition in supercooled liquids, by using the 

ModeCouplingtheoryandtheenergylandscapeparadigm. Weanalyze 

the case of water and, for disordered spin systems, the effect of entropy 

barriers. 

Research articles in colaboration with: S. V. Buldyrev (3), N. 

Giovambattista (2), P. Kumar (1), E. La Nave (1), G. Malescio (1), 

M. Mazza (1), F. de los Santos (1), A. Scala (1), F. Sciortino (1), A. 

Skibinsky (1), H.E. Stanley (3), F. W. Starr (2), (Boston Un., or Un. 

Messina, Un. “La Sapienza” Roma, or Un. de Granada) 

Production: 4Peer-ReviewedResearchArticles(PhilosophycalTransactions 

of the Royal Society A, PRE) + 1 Conference Proceedings (2 

as first author; 1 as single author). 

2004 - ongoing: Biological motivated problems 

We analyze by theory and simulations: (1) Hydrated proteins; (2) Protein 

crystallization in metastable liquid solutions; (3) BioNanoInteractions. 

Research articles in colaboration with: V. Bianco (7), F. Bruni 

(2), S. V. Buldyrev (8), S.-H. Chen (2), X.-Q. Chu (1), D. Corradini 

(1), K. A. Dawson (1), P. Gallo (1), S. Han (1), A. Hernando-Martinez 

(1), S. Iskrov (2), P. Kumar (6), J. Luo (1), F. Mallamace (2), M. G. 

Mazza (11), S. Pagnotta (1), M. Rubí (2), F. de los Santos (4), H. E. 

Stanley (14), E. G. Strekalova (5), K. Stokely (7), O. Vilanova (2), P. 

Vilaseca (1), L. Xu (5), Z. Yan (1), (Boston Un., or MIT, or Un. de 

Messina, or Un. de Granada, or Un. de Barcelona, or Un. Roma Tre, 

or Un. Pais Bascos, or University College Dublin). 

Production: 15 Peer-Reviewed Research Article (PNAS, PRL.) + 2 

book chapters + 1 book as Editor with M. Rubí + 2 Peer-Reviewed 

Conference Proceedings. 

Projects as Principal Investigator 

1999: Frustrated Systems 

funded by: CNR (Italy) with 8,000.00 USD 

Participants: 1. 

2003: Anomalous Liquids and Soft Matter 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia as research endowment 

(Programa Ramón y Cajal 2002, BOE 4/2/2002, granted on 

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17/1/2003) with 6,000.00 Euros 


2004: Research at UB 

funded by: Facultad de Física, Universitat de Barcelona with 800.00 

Euros 




Euros 

Participants: 2 

Co-funding Institution: Universiteit Leiden. 

2006: The vibrational entropy contribution to the stability of proteins 

funded by: HPC-Europa Consortium (HPC-Europa Transnational Access, 

Programa CI-6 - INCO VI, VI Programa Marco) with 6,360.00 

Euros 


Co-fundingInstitutions: BarcelonaSupercomputingCenter,EPFLLausanne. 

2008 -2010: Programa de Incentivación de la Incorporación e Intensificación 

de la Actividad Investigadora (Programa I3) 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Orden ECI/1520/2005, 

granted on 8/6/2007) with 130,000.00 Euros 




Euros 



funded by: Facultad de Física, Universitat de Barcelona with 800,00 

Euros 


2008: Contracte Programa Acadèmico Docent 


Euros 


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2009: Mobility Grant for Invited Professors 

fundedby: MinisteriodeCienciayInnovación(CIN/2038/2008; MAS2008- 

00085)with2.400,00Euros(of23.743,71fundedfortheMasterofComputational 

and Applied Physics, UPC/UB) 



fundedby: MinisteriodeCienciayInnovación(BOE12/01/09,DCT2008- 

00313-P) with 2,400.00 Euros (of 14.675,00 funded for the Ph.D. in 

Physics, UB) 




Euros 


2009: - 2012 JAE Programme: Predoctoral research training leading to PhD 

THESES 

(co-PrincipalInvestigator: JordiFaraudo)fundedby: ConsejoSuperior 

de Investigaciones Científicas (JAEPre 09 02397) with 58,800.00 Euros 


2010: - 2011 Research grants for visiting lecturers and researchers in Catalonia 

2009 PIV-DGR (candidate: Sergey V. Buldyrev) 

funded by: AGAUR - Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 

(2009PIV00045) with 19,138.00 Euros 


2009: - 2012 Dinámica y Termodinámica del Agua Nano-Confinada e Interfacial 

funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación (FIS2009-10210) with 

91,960.00 Euros 


2009: -2010Auto-ensamblajeen Confinamiento: efectode InterfacesBiológicas 

(I) 

funded by: Programa ’Salvador de Madariaga’, Ministerio de Educación, 

Mobility Program for Faculty in Foreingn Centers, visit at the 

University College Dublin (PR2009-0540-01) with 10,700.00 Euros 


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2010: -2010Auto-ensamblajeen Confinamiento: efectode InterfacesBiológicas 

(II) 

funded by: Programa ’Salvador de Madariaga’, Ministerio de Educación, 

Mobility Program for Faculty in Foreingn Centers, visit at the 

University of Cambrige (PR2009-0540-02) with 17,400.00 Euros 


2010: - 2011 Estancias de profesores e investigadores extranjeros en centros 

españoles. Modalidad A (candidate: Sergey V. Buldyrev) 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación (SAB2009-0087) 

with 17,700.00 Euros 


2010: - 2011 Ajuts destinats a universitats i centres de recerca per a la contractaciò 

de personal investigador novell per a l’any 2010 FI- DGR 

(candidate: Valentino Bianco) 

funded by: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (2009 

FI-DGR AN1976552) por 19,267.20 Euros 



funded by: Ministerio de Educación (Orden EDU/3391/2010) with 

2,400.00 Euros (of 22.426,73 funded for the Master of Computational 

and Applied Physics, UPC/UB) 


2011: - 2014 NanoTransKinetics: Modelling basis and kinetics of nanoparticle 

interaction with membranes, uptake into cells, and sub-cellular and 

inter-compartmental transport 

funded by: European Commission FP7 (NMP4-SL-2011-266737) with 

993,013.80 Euros 


2012: Mobility Grant for Invited Professors within PhD Programs of Excellence 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación (MHE2011-00046) with 4,800.00 

Euros(of8.400,00fundedforthePhDinNanoscienceoftheUBPhysics 

School) 


2012: Mobility Grant for Invited Professors within Officials Masters 

fundedby: MinisteriodeEducación(MAS2011-00480-P)with2,100.00 

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Euros (of 8.534,61 funded for the Master in Nanoscience and Nanothechnology 

of the UB Physics School) 


2013: - 2016 Interacciones entre sistemas nanoscopicos y macromoléculas 

biológicas en presencia de agua 

funded by: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FIS2012-31025) 





Euros 


2013: Research Fellowship for Italians abroad, year 2013-2014 (candidate: 

Valentino Bianco) 

funded by: Fondazione “Angelo Della Riccia” (http://theory.fi. 

infn.it/casalbuoni/dellariccia/Vincitori_2014_14.html) with 

9.000,00 Euros 




Euros 


Participation in Projects 

1997: P.R.I.N. - 97 

funded by: Ministero Università e Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica 

(Italy) 

Principal Investigator: Prof. Antonio Coniglio 

1998 - 2002: Fractals Structures and Self-Organization 

funded by: Training and Mobility of Researchers, Economic European 

Comm., with 1.470.000,00 Euros 

Principal Investigator: Prof. Luciano Pietronero 

1998 - 2001: Phase Coherent Dynamics of Hybrid Nanostructures 

funded by: Training and Mobility of Researchers, Economic European 

Comm. 

Principal Investigator: Prof. Colin John Lambert 

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1998 - 2001: Quantum transport in Mesoscopic devices 

funded by: Advanced Research Project (PRA), INFM (Italy) 

Principal Investigator: Prof. Arturo Tagliacozzo 

1999 - 2002: Water and Aqueous Solutions 

funded by: NSF - National Science Foundation, USA 

Principal Investigator: Prof. H. Eugene Stanley 

2002 - 2003: Computation in soft matter 

funded by: INFM (Italy) with 20,000.00 Euros 

Co-funding Institution: CINECA Bologna 


Principal Investigator: Prof. Lucilla de Arcangelis. 

2003 - 2004: Elastomagnetic Systems 





2004 - 2005: Volume effects in soft matter 





2004 - 2007: Estudio experimental and teórico de procesos de no-equilibrio 

in sistemas pequeños con relevancia biológica 

funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (FIS2004-3454) with 

161,000.00 Euros 


Principal Investigator: Prof. Felix Ritort. 

2005 - 2006: Dynamic Response to volume changes in elastic megnets and 

soft materials 





2005 - 2009: BIOSMALL: Physics of Biomolecules and Small Systems 

funded by: Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació 

(DURSI), Generalitat de Catalunya (2005SGR00688) with 

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41,200.00 Euros 



2005 - 2006: Red Temàtica in Complex Systems 

funded by: Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació 

(DURSI), Generalitat de Catalunya with 9,000.00 Euros 


Principal Investigator: Prof. J. Miguel Rubí. 

2005 - 2006: Estudio de Procesos dinámicos de condensación y cristalización 

de biomoléculas 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain-Brazil cooperation 

PHB2004-0057-PC) with 10,692.00 Euros 



2005 -2007: Pinzasópticasholográficasde dosfocosconresoluciónnanométrica: 

aplicaciones a biofísica molecular and celular Subprojecte: Aplicaciones 

de pinzas ópticas de dos focos en biofísica molecular 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (NAN2004-09348-C04- 

01) with 106,500.00 Euros 



2006: Physical insights in cell biology 

funded by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (FIS2005-24366-E) with 

10,000.00 Euros 



2006 - 2009: Project CIBER del àrea de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales and 

Nanomedicina 

funded by: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo (CB06/01/0045), with 

490,946.00 Euros 



2007 - 2009: Termodinàmica de no-equilibrio and cinètica de plegamiento in 

molèculas individuales con resolución de 1k B T 

funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación (FIS2007-61433) with 

80,000.00 Euros 

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2008: International Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Molecular 

Biophysics 

funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación (FIS2007-31082-E) with 

12,000.00 Euros 



2009 - 2013: Grupo de Recerca de Catalunya: Física Estadística 

funded by: Departament d’Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Recerca 

i Societat de la Informació, Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR00634) 




2009: International Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics. Energy Conversion: 

From Nanomachines to Renewable Sources. 

funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación (FIS2009-07738-E/FIS) 




2009: Ajuts per a l’organització accions mobilitzadores (ARCS) 2009. 

funded by: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca por 

6,000.00 Euros 



2012: International Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics. Understanding 

and Managing Randomness in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. 

funded by: European Science Foundation (ESF Science Meeting, ExploringthePhysicsofSmallDevices, 

Refno4069)with10,000.00Euros 



Seminars, Conferences and Workshops 

Invited Talks 

1. Instituto de Fisica - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Oct. 1997 

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2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, 

Germany, May 1998 

3. Istituto di Fisica, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Catania, Italy, Ago. 1998 

4. Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University,Boston,MA,Apr. 1999 

5. InternationalWorkshopon ScatteringStudiesof MesoscopicScaleStructure 

and Dynamics in Soft Matter, Messina, Italy, Nov. 22 - 25, 2000 

(delivered by S.V. Buldyrev) 

6. Università di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, Apr. 2001 

7. University of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japón, May 2001 

8. NATO Advanced Research Workshop, New kind of phase transitions: 

transformations in disordered substances Moscow-Volga river, Rusia, 

May 24 - 28, 2001 (delivered by S. V. Buldyrev) 

9. XXIth IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics STAT- 

PHYS21, Cancun, Mèjico, Jul. 15 - 21, 2001 (delivered by H.E. Stanley) 

10. Horizons in Complex Systems, Messina, Italy, Dec. 5 - 8, 2001 

11. Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Rome, Italy, May 27, 2002 

12. Fractal Structures and Self-Organization, Anacapri, Italy, Jun. 5 - 8, 

2002 

13. SMC - Theoretical Group Meeting, Rome, Italy, Jan. 22, 2003 

14. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Pierre et 

marie Curie, Paris, France, May 14, 2003 

15. Seminarios del Grupo de Física Estadistica del Dipartimento de Física 

Fundamental de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, May 26, 2003 

16. Universitat Politècnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Feb. 4, 2004 

17. Workshop on Non-equilibrium Temperatures in Glassy Systems, 

Barcelona, Mar. 26, 2004 

18. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modeles Statistiques, Université 

Paris Sud, Orsay, France, May 10, 2004 

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19. Water of Life Workshop, Varenna, Italy, Apr. 29 - 30, 2005 

20. Workshop on Hydrogen-bond Molecules, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Set. 8, 

2005 

21. Instituto de Física, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto 

Alegre, Brazil, Set. 14, 2005 

22. Instituto de Física, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto 

Alegre, Brazil, Feb. 2, 2006 

23. XX Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics: “Physical Biology: 

from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior”, Sitges, Jun. 5-9, 

2006 (delivered by H.E. Stanley) 

24. Workshop on Water and Water Solutions, Boston, MA, Jul. 29, 2006 

25. IV Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, 

Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Pisa, Italy, Sep. 17 - 22, 2006 

26. Workshop on Complex Systems, Barcelona, Oct. 4 - 6, 2006 

27. Institut Català de Nanotecnologia (ICN) Bellaterra, Jun. 30, 2006 

28. Glassy Liquids Under Pressure: Fundamentals and Applications, ESF 

Workshop, Ulstron, Polonia, Oct. 11 - 13, 2007 

29. Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain 

Apr. 25, 2008 

30. 2008 Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2008), Ouro Preto, 

Brazil, Aug. 5 - 9, 2008 

31. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, 

Italy, Sep. 12, 2008 

32. 10th Granada Seminar: Modelling and Simulation of New Materials, 

Granada, Spain, Sep. 15 - 19, 2008 (delivered by F. de los Santos) 

33. ARW NATO “Metastability under Pressure” Odessa, Ukraine, Oct. 4 

- 8, 2008 

34. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 

Spain, Nov. 7, 2008 

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35. Institut Romand de Recherche Numerique en Physique des Materiaux 

IRRMA and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, 

Swiss Confederation, Nov. 14, 2008 

36. New Trends in Complex Systems Taormina, Italy, Nov. 22-26, 2008 

37. Trobada de grups de recerca en vidres i materials amorfs, Castelldefels, 

Spain, Feb. 5, 2009 

38. BCNucleation – Agregation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 18-19, 

2009 

39. CECAM Workshop: ”Modeling and simulation of water at interfaces 

from ambient to supercooled conditions.” Lausanne, Swiss Confederation, 

Jul. 20-22, 2009 

40. 6th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, 

Rome, Italy Aug. 30- Sep. 4, 2009 

41. CBNI: Centre for Bio-Nano Interactions, University College Dublin, 

Dublin, Ireland Dec. 4, 2009 

42. Workshop “Thermodynamically unstable proteins: chance or necessity” 

Trieste, Italy Dec. 14-16, 2009 

43. Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 

Feb. 19, 2010 

44. Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY Apr. 13, 

2010 

45. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT – Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Apr. 20, 2010 

46. Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 

Apr. 28, 2010 

47. Edinburgh - Cambridge - Dussendörf Meeting, Edinburgh, UK May 

11-12, 2010 

48. Workshop “Frontiers in Water Biophysics”, Trieste, Italy May 23-26, 

2010 

49. Workshop “Complex Energy Landscapes: Computational and Statistical 

Methods of Soft matter ”, Zaragoza, Spain Jun. 3-4, 2010 

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50. InternationalSchoolof Physics“EnricoFermi”, Course CLXXVI“COM- 

PLEX MATERIALS IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY”, Varenna, Italy 

Jun. 28- Jul. 9, 2010 

51. “International Workshop on Dynamic Crossover Phenomena in Water 

and Other Glass-forming Liquids”, Florence, Italy Nov. 11-13, 2010 

52. Workshop on Self-Assembly, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 18-19, 2011 

53. Fluctuation Phenomena in Interdisciplinary Science, Barcelona, Spain, 

Apr. 27-29, 2011 

54. Complexitat.CAT, Barcelona, Spain, May 2, 2011 

55. CECAM Workshop: “Models for Bulk, Confined Water and Aqueous 

Solutions Upon Supercooling: State of the Art and Future Perspectives 

in Understanding Water Anomalies by Computer Simulations”, Lausanne, 

Swiss Confederation, Jul. 4-6, 2011 

56. InstitutCatalàdeNanotecnologia(ICN)Bellaterra, Spain, Jul. 7, 2011 

57. Sixth Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of 

Water, Mount Snow Resort, West Dover, Vermont, Oct. 20 - 23, 2011 

58. Perspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems 

for the Next Decade: A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley 

and Liacir Lucena, Natal, Brazil, Nov. 9 - 11, 2011 

59. Physics Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Mar. 2, 

2012 

60. Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, Mar. 8, 2012 

61. Protein and Peptide Conference (PepCon-2012), Beijing, China, Mar. 

23-25, 2012 

62. International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China, 

Mar. 28, 2012 

63. Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia, Universita’ degli Studi di Sassari, 

Sassari, Italy, Apr. 27, 2012 

64. BIONEUTRON 2012, Neutron Scattering Highlights on Water and Biological 

Systems, Taormina, Italy, May 26-29, 2012 

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65. Frontiers in statistical physics and complex systems, Catania, Italy, 

June 2-5, 2012 

66. CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain, Jun. 14, 

2012 

67. Donostia International Physics center (DIPC), Donostia – San Sebastian, 

Spain, Jun. 15, 2012 

68. Workshop on Water and Water Solutions, Boston, MA, Aug. 11, 2012 

69. Departement Natuurkunde & Sterrenkunde, University of Leuven - K. 

U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 19, 2012 

70. Second International Workshop on Advances in Colloidal Materials, 

Granada, Spain, Sept. 21, 2012 

71. Frontiers in Water Biophysics (Keynote Speaker), Perugia, Italy, Sep. 

23-26, 2012 

72. Structure, functionalization and dynamics of fluid interfaces, Zaragoza, 

Spain, Oct. 15-17, 2012 

73. “Academia de Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-químicas y Naturales de 

Granada” Granada, Spain, Nov. 23, 2012 

74. SistemesObertsMuseud’ArtContemporaniBarcelona(MACBA),Spain, 

Dec. 12, 2012 

75. WaterSpain, Zaragoza, Spain, Feb. 7-8, 2013 

76. CECAM Workshop: “New Insights on Simulations, Theory and Experiments 

in Supercooled Water”, Lausanne, Swiss Confederation, Jul. 

3-5, 2013 

77. 7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, 

Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 21-26, 2013 

78. Symposium on the Fragility of Glass-formers, Bengaluru, India, Jan. 

5-8, 2014 

79. Metastability and nucleation in water: theory, experiments, and applications, 

Les Houches, France, June 1-6, 2014 

80. EMLG-JMLG Conference “Molecular liquids and soft matter: from 

fundamentals to applications”, Rome, Italy, Sep. 8-12, 2014 

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Contributed Talks 

81. XXth IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics STAT- 

PHYS20, Paris, France, Jul. 20 - 24, 1998 

82. IX Convegno di Meccanica Statistica e Teoria dei Campi Non Perturbativa, 

Bari, Italy, Sep. 28 - 30, 1998 

83. National Conference of Physics of Matter - INFMeeting, Catania, Italy, 

Jun. 14 - 18, 1999 

84. IV Convegno Nazionale di Fisica Statistica, Parma, Italy, Jun. 23 - 25, 

1999 

85. LT22, 22 nd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, 

Helsinki, Finlandia, Ago. 4 - 11, 1999 

86. Tohwa StatPhys’99, Fukuoka, Japón, Nov. 8 - 12, 1999 

87. International Workshop on Scaling and Disordered Systems, París, 

France, Apr. 13 - 14, 2000 

88. 2001 APS’s Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) Meeting 

Cambridge, MA, Jun. 25 - 28, 2001 

89. Scaling Concepts and Complex Systems Merida, Mèjico, Jul. 9 - 14, 

2001 

90. Scaling Concepts and Complex Systems Merida, Mèjico, Jul. 9 - 14, 

2001 (delivered by G. Malescio) 


PHYS21, Cancun, Mèjico, Jul. 15 - 21, 2001 

92. National Conference of Physics of Matter - INFMeeting, Bari, Italy, 

Jun. 24 - 28, 2002 

93. Les Houches Meeting on Statistical Physics of Glasses, Spin Glasses, 

Information Processing and Combinatorial Optimization, Les Houches, 

France, Mar. 3 - 9, 2003 

94. Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics III, Bangalore, India, Jun. 28 - 

Jul. 1, 2004 

95. 22nd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, STAT- 

PHYS22, Bangalore, India, Jul. 4 - 9, 2004 

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96. International Workshop on Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity 

, Erice, Italy, Jul. 20 - 26, 2004 

97. Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS’04, Dresden, Alemania, Sep. 

5 - 10, 2004 (delivered by G. Ausanio) 

98. FisEs05 Congreso de Física Estadística, Madrid, Jun. 28 - 30, 2005 

99. 2006 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 13 - 17, 2006 (delivered 

by L. Xu) 

100. EMLG/JMLG Annual Meeting “Liquid Systems under Extreme Conditions”, 

Barcelona, Set. 3-7, 2006 

101. “Physics of Fluctuations far from Equilibrium”, International workshop, 

Dresden, Alemania, Jul. 2-6, 2007 

102. ESF Research Conference “Water Interfaces in Physics, Chemistry and 

Biology: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach”, Obergurgl, Austria, Dec. 8- 

13, 2007 

103. XXI Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Statistical mechanics 

of molecular biophysics” Sitges, Spain, Jun. 2 - 6, 2008 (delivered by 

P. Kumar) 

104. 7th Liquid Matter Conference, Lund, Sweden, Jun. 27 - Jul. 1, 2008 

105. EPS 22nd Conference of the Condensed Matter Division, Roma, Italy, 

Aug. 25 - 29, 2008 

106. 10thInternationalWorkshopon Non-CrystallineSolids,Barcelona,Spain 

Apr. 21 - 23, 2010 [Cancelled for the Eyjafjallajökull eruption] 

107. XXIVth IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics STAT- 

PHYS24, Cairns, Australia, Jul. 19 - 23, 2010 

108. Workshop on Self-Assembly, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 18-19, 2011 (delivered 

by C. Esplugas) 


by V. Bianco) 


by O. Vilanova) 

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111. Workshop on Water in Biological Systems, Orléans, France, Dec. 5-6, 

2011. 

112. APS March Meeting 2012, Boston, MA Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2012. 

113. APS March Meeting 2012, Boston, MA Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2012. (delivered 

by S. V. Buldyrev) 


by E. G. Strekalova) 


by E. Lascaris) 

116. ImagineNano – nanoBio&Med 2013, Bilbao, Spain Apr. 23-26, 2013. 

117. EMLG - JMLG Conference “Global Perspectives in the Structure and 

Dynamics in Liquids and Mixtures: Experiment and Simulation”, Lille, 

France Sep. 9-13, 2013. 

Posters in Conferences 

118. National Conference of Physics of Matter - INFMeeting, Napoli, Italy, 

May 29 - Jun. 1, 1995 

119. Combustion Meeting, Napoli, Italy, Jul. 25 - 28, 1995 

120. Scuola INFM ’95, Torino, Italy, Sep. 1995 

121. Workshop on non equilibrium phenomena in supercooled fluids, glasses 

and amorphous materials, Euroconference, Pisa, Italy, Sep. 25 - 29, 

1995 

122. XV Convegno di Fisica teorica e struttura della materia, Fai della Paganella 

(Trento), Italy, Mar. 30 - Apr. 2, 1996 

123. InternationalSchool“EnricoFermi”-ComplexSystems,Varenna,Italy, 

Jul. 1996 

124. Scuola INFM ’96, Torino, Italy, Sep. 1996 

125. Congreso Nazionale di Fisica della Materia - INFMeeting, Cagliari, 

Italy, May 19 - 23, 1997 

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126. Convegno Nazionale di Fisica Statistica, Parma, Italy, Jun. 23 - 25, 

1997 

127. Convegno Nazionale di Fisica Statistica, Parma, Italy, Jun. 23 - 25, 

1997 (II poster) 

128. V Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, Canela, Brazil, 

Sep. 28 - Oct. 3, 1997 

129. XVII Convegno di Fisica teorica e struttura della materia, Fai della 

Paganella, Italy, Mar. 29 - Apr. 1, 1998 

130. CongresoNazionale diFisicadella Materia-INFMeeting,Rimini,Italy, 

Jun. 25 - 30, 1998 

131. VII International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Molveno Andalo, 

Italy, Mar. 1 - 4, 1999 

132. Gordon Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions Plymouth, NH, 

Ago. 6 - 11, 2000 


Ago. 6 - 11, 2000 (presentado por A. Skibinsky) 


PHYS21, Cancun, Mèjico, Jul. 15 - 21, 2001 

135. III Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, 

Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Pisa, Italy, Sep. 22 - 27, 2002 

136. The Royal Society Discussion meeting on Configurational energy landscapes 

and structural transitions in clusters, fluids and biomolecules, 

London, UK, Apr. 19 - 20, 2004 

137. XX Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics: “Physical Biology: 

from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior”, Sitges, Jun. 5-9, 

2006 (delivered by M. Cosentino) 


Jul. 30 - Ago. 4, 2006 

139. FisEs06 Congreso de Física Estadística, Granada, Set. 14 - 16, 2006 

140. XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics 

STATPHYS23, Genova, Jul. 9 - 13, 2007 

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141. FisEs08 Congreso de Física Estadística, Salamanca, Mar. 27 - 29, 2008 

142. XXI Sitges Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Statistical mechanics 

of molecular biophysics” Sitges, Spain, Jun. 2 - 6, 2008 (delivered by 

L. Xu) 


Jul. 27 - Ago. 1, 2008 

144. Liquids Out of Equilibrium Sydney, Australia, Jul. 12-16, 2010 

145. 2010 IN2UB Day Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 13, 2010 (delivered by V. 

Bianco) 

146. Horizons in Emergence & Scaling (HES), Boston, Massachusetts, Mar. 

18 - 19, 2011 (delivered by E. G. Strekalova) 

147. XVII Congreso de Física Estadística, FisEs, Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 

2-4, 2011 


2-4, 2011 (delivered by V. Bianco) 


2-4, 2011 (delivered by O. Vilanova) 


2-4, 2011 (delivered by C. Esplugas) 

151. 2nd QNano International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 

27 - Mar. 1, 2013 (delivered by O. Vilanova) 

152. ImagineNano – nanoBio&Med 2013, Bilbao, Spain, Apr. 23-26, 2013 

(delivered by O. Vilanova) 

153. ImagineNano – nanoBio&Med 2013, Bilbao, Spain, Apr. 23-26, 2013 

(delivered by M. Bernabei) 

Attendance to other Conferences 

154. VI International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Andalo (Trento), 

Italy, Mar. 3 - 6, 1997 

155. Workshop on Relaxation in Complex Systems, Anacapri, Italy, May 23 

- 24, 2002 

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156. Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter 

Sitges, Jun. 14 - 18, 2004 

157. II Congreso Nacional de BioFísica (BIFI) 2005, Zaragoza, Feb. 10 - 

12, 2005 

158. Workshop on Biophysics: Single Molecule Day, Barcelona, Mar. 31, 

2006 

159. Non Equilibrium Day, Barcelona, Oct. 2, 2006 

160. Fora d’equilibri. Noves fronteres de la ciència, l’art i el pensament, 

Barcelona, Sep. 5-7, 2007 

161. SoftMatter 2008, Bellaterra, Apr. 10-11, 2008 

162. Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Synthetic and Biological Structures, 

Barcelona, Sep. 25-26, 2008 

163. Informal workshop on avalanches in disordered systems, Barcelona, 

Feb. 27, 2009 

164. From Neuroscience to Nanoscience, Christopher Dobson 60th Birthday 

Symposium, Cambridge, Apr. 8-9, 2010 

165. Biological Interfaces, London, Apr. 29-30, 2010 

166. BioFiViNet–Red Española Interdisciplinar de Biofísica de los Virus, 

Barcelona, Apr. 6-8, 2011 

167. ZCAM Meeting, Zaragoza, Feb. 7, 2013 

168. Magnifyco International Workshop on Magnetic Nano-Containers for 

Combined Hyperthermia and Controlled Drug Release, Barcelona, Feb. 

20-22, 2013 

Dissertations 

169. “Luttinger Liquids”; Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università “Federico 

II”, Napoli, Apr. 1996 

170. “Migdal-Kadanoff Renormalization”; Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, 

Università “Federico II”, Napoli, Apr. 1996 

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171. “OpticalTraps”; Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università “Federico 

II”, Napoli, Apr. 1996 

172. “Frustrated Systems: Cluster Dynamics and Precursor Phenomena”; 

Dipartimentodi ScienzeFisiche, Università“FedericoII”,Napoli,Italy, 

Mar. 1998 

173. Ph.D.Defense,DipartimentodiFisica, Università“LaSapienza”,Roma, 

Italy, May 1998 

Other Research Merits 

Scientific Accreditations 

2003: Accraditation as Professor Colaborador, AQU, Cataluña 

2003: Accraditation as Professor Lector, AQU, Cataluña 

2004: Research Accraditation, AQU, Cataluña 

2007: Accraditation within the I3 Program, ANEP, Spain. 

2013: Advanced Research Accraditation, AQU, Cataluña 

Long Research Visits (more than 3 weeks) 

1. Center: Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, CNR; Place: Napoli 

(Italy); Year: 1994; Dates: 1 Year; Type: Scholarship pre-doctoral; 

Topic: Granular Matter. 

2. Center: DipartimentodiFisica, Università“FedericoII”; Place: Napoli 

(Italy); Year: 1995; Dates: 3 Years; Type: Ph.D. Student; Topic: 

Frustrated Systems. 

3. Center: Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Amaldi”, Università Roma III; 

Place: Roma (Italy); Year: 1998; Dates: 1 Year; Type: Ph.D. Student; 

Topic: Nanoscopic Systems. 

4. Center: Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University; Place: Boston 

(MA); Year: 1999; Dates: 2 Years and 6 Months; Type: Postdoctoral 

Fellow; Topic: Anomalous Liquids. 

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5. Center: Dipartimento di Metodologie Chimiche e Fisiche per l’Ingegneria, 

Università di Catania; Place: Catania (Italy); Year: 1999; 

Dates: 10/6 - 30/6; Type: Invited; Topic: Out-of-equilibrium spin 

models. 

6. Center: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Seconda Università 

di Napoli; Place: Napoli (Italy); Year: 2001; Dates: 1 Year; Type: 

Posdoctoral Fellow; Topic: Elastomagnetic Systems. 


(MA); Year: 2002; Dates: 24/7/02 - 21/8/02; Type: Invited; Topic: 

Anomalous Liquids. 

8. Center: StaticalMechanicsandComplexity,INFMPlace: Roma(Italy); 

Year: 2002; Dates: 7 Months; Type: Pos-doctorado; Topic: Disordered 

Systems. 


(MA);Year: 2005; Dates: 3/5-26/5; Type: Invited; Topic: Anomalous 

Liquids. 


(MA); Year: 2005; Dates: 1 Month; Type: Invited; Topic: Anomalous 

Liquids. 

11. Center: Instituto de Fisica - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do 

Sul; Place: Porto Alegre (Brazil); Year: 2005; Dates: 28/8 - 18/9; 

Type: Invited; Topic: Biological systems and Water. 



Liquids. 


Sul; Place: Porto Alegre (Brazil); Year: 2006; Dates: 13/4 - 5/5; Type: 

Invited; Topic: Biological systems and Water. 



Liquids. 


Sul; Place: Porto Alegre (Brazil); Year: 2008; Dates: 17/1 - 8/2; Type: 

Invited; Topic: Biological systems and Water. 

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(MA); Year: 2008; Dates: 1 Month; Type: Invited; Topic: Supercooled 

water. 

17. Center: Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin; 

Place: Dublin; Year: 2009; Dates: 3 Months; Type: Invited; Topic: 

Physical Biology. 

18. Center: Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Place: 

Cambridge, UK; Year: 2010; Dates: 6 Months; Type: Invited; Topic: 

Physical Chemistry. 

19. Center: International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University; 

Place: Beijing (China); Year: 2012; Dates: 21/3 - 12/4; Type: 

Invited; Topic: Water at interfaces. 

Short Visits 


Sul; Place: Porto Alegre (Brazil); Year: 1997; Dates: 3/10 - 8/10; 

Type: Invited; Topic: Potts spin glass. 

2. Center: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg August Universität; 

Place: Göttingen (Alemania); Year: 1998; Dates: 11/6- 16/6; Type: 

Invited; Topic: Frustrated Systems. 

3. Center: Istituto di Fisica, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Catania; 

Place: Catania (Italy); Year: 1998; Dates: 10/8 - 21/8; Type: Invited; 

Topic: XY Model. 

4. Center: Graduate School of Human Informatics, Nagoya University; 

Place: Nagoya (Japón); Year: 2001; Dates: 10/6 - 18/6; Type: Invited; 

Topic: Supercooled liquids. 



Liquids. 

6. Center: CNRS,LaboratoiredePhysiqueThèoriquedesLiquides; Place: 

Paris (France); Year: 2003; Dates: 13/6 - 14/6; Type: Invited; Topic: 

Energy Landscape. 

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di Napoli; Place: Napoli (Italy); Year: 2003; Dates: 24/7 - 31/7; 

Type: Invited; Topic: Elastomagnetic Systems. 


(MA); Year: 2003; Dates: 12/8 - 25/8; Type: Invited; Topic: Anomalous 

Liquids. 


(MA); Year: 2003; Dates: 28/10 - 5/11; Type: Invited; Topic: Anomalous 

Liquids. 




11. Center: Laboratoire LPTMS, Universite Paris Sud; Place: Orsay 

(France); Year: 2004; Dates: 9/6 - 11/6; Type: Invited; Topic: Complex 

Systems. 



Liquids. 






Liquids. 


(MA); Year: 2006; Dates: 28/2 - 10/3; Type: Invited; Topic: Crystal 

Nucleation. 



Nucleation. 


(MA); Year: 2008; Dates: 11/2 - 22/2; Type: Invited; Topic: Confined 

Water. 

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(MA);Year: 2009; Dates: 11/8-27/8; Type: Invited; Topic: Hydration 

Water. 



Water. 


(MA); Year: 2010; Dates: 24/7 - 1/8; Type: Invited; Topic: Hydration 

Water. 



complex liquids. 



Nucleation. 

Large Scientific Facilities Used During the Career 

1997 –2004: IBM SP4 Parallel Computer with 32 processors at 1300 MHz, 

as Frequent User 

1997 –2004: SGI Origin 3800 Parallel Computer with 64 processors at 500 

MHz, as Frequent User 

1997 –2004: IBM Linux Cluster with 128 processors at 1.133 GHz, as Frequent 

User 

1999 –2004: IBM P690 Parallel Computer with 112 processors at 580 Gflop 

peak performance, as Frequent User 

1999 –2004: IBM P655 Parallel Computer with 48 processors at 210 Gflop 

peak performance, as Frequent User 

1999 –on going: Linux Cluster with 104 processors at 130 Gflop peak performance, 

as Frequent User 

2003 –on going: Linux Cluster with 22 processors at 2.6 GHz, as Frequent 

User. 

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Impact 

Popular dissemination and Reaching-out 

2012: G.Franzese,disseminationtalkatthe“AcademiadeCienciasMatemáticas, 

Físico-químicas y Naturales de Granada”, Granada, about water special 

properties (November 23). 

2012: G. Franzese, dissemination talk at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary 

Art (MACBA) within the collaborative project “Open Systems. 

Artistic creativity and scientific experimentation” in which teachers, 

students, artists and scientists share perspectives on water (December 

12). 

2013: F. de los Santos, G. Franzese, “La danza del agua en los nanocanales”, 

Investigación y Ciencia (n. 436, January 2013), Spanish edition of 

Scientific American–Nature Publishing Group. Invited dissemination 

paper about water diffusion in nanoconfinement. 

2013: G. Franzese, dissemination talk at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary 

Art (MACBA) about new acquisitions of the museum directly 

related to water (March 4). 

Press Communications about my Research 

Radio 

2008: Radio Interview by Ana Bañeres, ”L’Observatori” (educational radio 

program), Radio4 Spanish National Radio RNE/RTVE. 

2013: Radio Interview at “L’Aigua en xarxa”, radio-magazine about water 

(educational radio program), Girona Ara Catalan radio part of the 

network “La Xarxa Freqüència Girona”. 

International Press 

1996 Dec. 7: “Dottori di Ricerca” in Il Sole 24 Ore, (the most influent 

economic Italian newspaper with more than 347’360 copies sold 1996). 

2001 Feb. 8: “A new state of liquid matter” by J. Schwartz in BU Bridge. 

2001 May10: “Phasetransitionsinliquids”byK.R.RaoinCurrent Science. 

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2004 Sep. 23: Interview on Nature: “Spain aims at premier league” by Q. 

Schiermeier. 

2005 May 15: “Water wisdom and Widom” by J. Schwartz in BU Bridge. 

2008: “La forma dell’acqua” by M. Catanzaro in Le Scienze, Italian edition 

of Scientific American–Nature Publishing Group. 

2010: “Perchè l’acqua non ghiaccia” by M. Catanzaro in Le Scienze, Italian 

edition of Scientific American–Nature Publishing Group. 

2011: Feb. 24: “Coarse-grained models” by P. Ball in Water In Biology, a 

forum for discussing the behaviour of water in the leaving cell. 

2012: Jan. 19: “Moredynamicaltransitions” byP.BallinWater In Biology, 

a forum for discussing the behaviour of water in the leaving cell. 

2012: Ago. 29: “The Strangeness of Water” in on-line edition of EL PAIS 

(leading Spanish newspaper). 

National Press 

2007: Interview by Spanish newspaper El Periódico about my research at the 


2008: “L’aigua, aquest líquid estrany” by T. Pou in El Temps. 

2008: Article of El Periódico about XXI Sitges Conference On Statistical 

Mechanics “Statistical mechanics of molecular biophysics.”, organized 

by G. Franzese, D. Regeuera and M. Rubí. 

2010: “Modelo unificado para el agua” Investigación y Ciencia, Spanish edition 

of Scientific American–Nature Publishing Group. 

2010: Interview by Spanish newspaper El Periódico about the XXII Sitges 

Conference On Statistical Mechanics “Energy conversion: From 

Nanomachines to Renewable Sources.”, organized by G. Franzese, D. 

Regeuera and M. Rubí. 

2012: Dec.: “Supervivientes bajo cero” by L. Chaparro in Redes, Spanish 

scientific journal. 

2013: “Puntos de interés...” in Revista Española de Física (Vol. 27, N. 4), 

scientific magazine of the Real Sociedad Española de Física. 

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Press Releases of Universities 

2005: Press release by the Boston University about my research article 

“Franzese et al. Nature, 409, 692 (2001)”, listed among the four most 

relevant publications in the 2003-2004 Highlights of Boston University 

Physics Departament. 

2008: Press release by the Universidad de Barcelona on the research article 

“Kumar, Franzese & Stanley Physical Review Letters 100, 105701 

(2008)”. 

2008: Press release by the Universidad de Barcelona on XXI Sitges Conference 

On Statistical Mechanics “Statistical mechanics of molecular 

biophysics.”, organized by G. Franzese, D. Regeuera and M. Rubí. 

2010: Interview by the Universidad de Barcelona on XXII Sitges Conference 

On Statistical Mechanics “Energy conversion: From Nanomachines to 

Renewable Sources.”, organized by G. Franzese, D. Regeuera and M. 

Rubí. 

2010: Press release by the Universidad de Barcelona on XXII Sitges Conference 

On Statistical Mechanics “Energy conversion: From Nanomachines 

to Renewable Sources.”, organized by G. Franzese, D. Regeuera 

and M. Rubí. 


“Stokely, Mazza, Stanley, and Franzese, Proceedings of the National 

Academy of Sciences of the USA 107, 1301-1306 (2010)”. 


“Strekalova, Mazza, Stanley, & Franzese Physical Review Letters 106, 

145701 (2011)”. 


“Mazza, Stokely, Pagnotta, Bruni, Stanley, and Franzese, Proceedings 

of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108, 19873 (2011)”. 


“de los Santos, and Franzese Physical Review E 85, 010602(R) (2012)”. 

2012: Press release by the Universidad de Granada on the research article 

“de los Santos, and Franzese Physical Review E 85, 010602(R) (2012)”. 

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2012: Press release by the Universidad de Barcelona on XXIII Sitges Conference 

On Statistical Mechanics “Understanding and managing randomness 

in physics, chemistry and biology”, organized by G. Franzese, I. 

Pagonabarraga, A. Pérez, D. Regeuera and M. Rubí. 


“T. Kesselring, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, H. J. Herrmann, H. E. 

Stanley, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) 2, 474 (2012)”. 


“E. G. Strekalova, J. Luo, H. E. Stanley, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, 

Strekalova, Mazza, Stanley, & Franzese Physical Review Letters 109, 

105701 (2012)”. 

Web News 

If not specified the web site is in English, or Spanish, or Catalan: 

2008 Article about my research on: 

• Sinc (Servicio de Información y Noticia Científica) 

• Worldpress.com 

• VerticalNews.com 

• Universia.es 

• Scienceknowledge.org 

2009: Two articles about my research on: 


2010: Article about my research on: 

• infoagua.net 

• ActualidadUniversitaria.com 

• aecomunicacioncientifica.org 

• softpedia.com 

• merchantstore.com 

• azonano.com 

• GlobalTalent 

• AlphaGalileo.org 

• Meneame.net 

• Yahoo-Korea (Korean) 

• Universia.es (Portugues) 


• blog.hoahoc.org 

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• Scienceknowledge.org 

• sciencedaily.com 

• alphagalileo.org 

• waterlink-international.com 

• Actualidaduniversitaria.com 

• Scientificcomputing.com 

• Universitam.com 

• Agenciasinc.es 

• Cunoticias.com 

• JournalOfSciences.com 

• chemnews.hoahocngaynay.com 

• Abreakingnews.com 

• Sciencetechmag.com 

• Rdipress.com 

• thermalfluidscentral.com 

• waterlink-international.com 

• ping.sg 

• Universia.es 

• Science.portalhispanos.com 

• pepquimic.wordpress.com 

• catquimica.cat 

• lukor.com 

• sci–tech.blogspot.com 

• shortnews.de (German) 

• Astropage.eu (German) 

• Rnd.cnews.ru (Russian) 

• physics.com.ua (Russian) 

• Nanonewsnet.ru (Russian) 

• MitTrChinese.com (Chinese) 



• Universitam.com 

• Iagua.es 

• Ecoticias.com 

• Agua.org.mx 

• LabSpaces.net 

• ScienceDaily.com 

• melyricsvitamink.ato-wsu.com 

• watchfamilyguydogpile.juliodelvalle.com 

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• watchtvshowsgossipgirl.amazinglindsaylohan.com 

• summervacationideassouthwest.theridearound2010.com 

• bloodsweatandtears.colegiocristoreytacna.com 

• weeklyworldnews.bagelsplus-nh.com 

• physorg.com 

• catalunyavanguardista.com 

• Agenciasinc.es 

• sciguru.com 

• miugr.ideal.es 

• spacedaily.com 

• irishtime.com 

Dissemination: reprinted articles 

2002: Research article “Franzese et al. Physical Review E 66, 051206 (2002)” 

is selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological 

Physics Research. 

2004: Researcharticle“Skibinskyetal. Physical Review E69,061206(2004)” 

is selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological 


2008: Research article “Oliveira et al. Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 

064901 (2008)” is selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological 


2008: Research article “Kumar, Franzese & Stanley Physical Review Letters 

100, 105701 (2008)” is selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological 


2010: Research article “Stokely et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 



2010: Research article “Vilaseca & Franzese J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084507 

(2010)” is selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics 

Research. 

2011: Research article “Strekalova et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145701 


Research. 

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2011: Research article “Mazza et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 



2012: Researcharticle“delosSantos&FranzesePhysicalReviewE85,010602(R) 


Research. 

Rank among the Top Scientists in Spain 

Ranked among the top scientists in “PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS” 6 

and “PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL” 7 

Citation indices: H index = 27, V index = 2.11 (> 1 = 

success), M index = 1.35 

The Hirsch’s citation index H (i.e. the number of publications with more 

citations than their ranking in the list of most cited publications) is H=27 8 . 

The Vaidya’s V index is V=2.11. V>1 indicates a successful researcher 

9 . 

The V index is calculated on the basis of the H index as follows. 

The Academic Age (number of years doing reserach) is N Y =20. 

The Hirsc’s M index is M=H/N Y =1.35 10 . 

Numberofhoursdevotedtoteaching[seeFig.1pag. 6]andadministration 

N T = 1075×2+N Y ×(365−30)/7×5×2 = 11721.4 

The Proportion of time devoted to research (average over Academic Age) 

is P=(N Y ×1650−N T )/(N Y ×1650)=0.64 

The Vaidya’s V index is V=H/(N Y ×P)=2.11 

Personal Impact Factor ≃ 1.5 × PRL Impact Factor 

Editorial conventions. In this field the authors are not conventionally listed 

in alphabetical order but in a specific order. First author: main researcher 

that has carried out the body of the research. Last author: senior author, 

normally leading the research. Corresponding author: can be assigned to the 

6 http://indice-h.webcindario.com/fisica.html#PHYSICS,FLUIDS&PLASMAS 

7 http://indice-h.webcindario.com/fisica.html#PHYSICS,MATHEMATICAL 

8 J. E. Hirsch, PNAS 102, 16569 (2005) for more explications 

9 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/331/7528/1339-c\#123188. 

10 Hirsch J.E. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output 

arXiv:physics/0508025 v5 29 Sep (2005) 

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Figure 2: Source: Top: scholar.google.com (24/10/2013); Bottom: ISI Web 

of Science (24/10/2013). 

first author, usually a student or a post-doc, or the lead author, depending 

on the team choice. 

Total number of citations N C =2152. 

Total number of publications (including preprints on cond-mat archive that 

are counted in Google Scholar) N P =81. 

Average number of citations per article N C /N P =26.6. 

Number of publications being the first author N 1 =27. 

Number of publications as the last author N ∞ =26. 

Total number of coauthors N A =360. 

Average number of citations per author N C /N A =5.98. 

Personal Contribution PC=[N 1 /N P +N P /N A +N ∞ /(4N P )]/[1+N P /N A + 

1/4]= 43.3%: the Personal contribution corresponds to the % of the total 

impact of publications. The Personal contribution is calculated assigning to 

each article a score 1 + 1/(N A /N P ) + 1/4, divided as folows: 1 for the 1st 

author, 1/4 for the last author, 1/(N A /N P ) for any author (including the 1st 

and the last). 

Personal Impact Factor PIF=N C /N P ×PC=11.5. 

The PIF should be compare with a reference IF in the field, such as the 

Physical Review Letters IF=7.9. 

Hence, my Personal Impact Factor is approximately 1.5 time the Physical 

Review Letters Impact Factor (PIF/IF PRL =1.46). 

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Most cited publications 

Most cited publications are, as from scholar.google.com on 24/10/2013 (References 

in the Publications List): 

1. #14: Nature 2001; 291 citations 2. #20: PRE 2003; 115 citations 

3. #38: PNAS 2012; 109 citations 4. #19: PRE 2002; 97 citations 

5. #23: PRE 2004; 95 citations 6. #28: JPCM 2007; 94 citations 

7. #15: PhysA 2002 (a); 91 citations 8. #30: JCP 2008; 83 citations 

9. #31: PRL 2008; 80 citations 10. #26: PRE 2005; 68 citations 

11. #16: JPCM 2002 (a); 64 citations 12. #29: JML 2007; 51 citations 

13. #32: JPCM 2008; 46 citations 14. #18: PhysA 2002 (b); 46 citations 

15. #17: JPCM 2002 (b); 45 citations 16. #24: PhilTRSA 2005; 44 citations 

17. #27: PRE 2006; 43 citations 18. #48: PNAS 2011; 35 citations 

19. # 1: PRL 1994; 35 citations 20. #13: PRB 2000; 33 citations 

21. #34: JPCM 2008; 32 citations 22. # 7: PRE 1998; 32 citations 

23. #46: PRL 2011; 30 citations 24. #53: SciRep 2012; 29 citations 

25. #35: CPC 2009; 29 citations 26. # 8: PRE 1999; 28 citations 

27. #42: JCP 2010; 27 citations 

ResearchGate Score higher than 87.5% of other members 

ResearchGate (RG) Score is a new way to measure scientific reputation. RG 

Score is calculated based on how other researchers interact with my content 

on researchgate.net, how often, and who they are. 

My RG Score is 30.75 and it is higher than 87.5% of ResearchGate members’. 

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Listed among Highly Cited Papers in Physics and Chemistry 

• The paper G. Franzese, G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S.V. Buldyrev, 

and H. E. Stanley, Generic mechanism for generating a liquid-liquid 

phase transition, Nature 409, 692 (2001), belongs to the ISI Web of 

Knowledge list of Highly Cited Papers in Physics of the years 2001- 

2011 12 . 

11 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giancarlo_Franzese/reputation/ 

ev=prf_rep_tab visited on 29/10/2013. 

12 G. Franzese et al. Nature 409, 692 (2001), was in the list of Highly Cited Papers in 

Physics of the years 2001- 2011 as appeared in Essential Science Indicators of ISI Web of 

Knowledge. 

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• The paper K. Stokely, M. G. Mazza, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, 

Effect of hydrogen bond cooperativity on the behavior of water, Proceedings 

of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107, 1301- 

1306 (2010), belongs to the ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited 

Papers in Chemistry of the last 10 years 13 . 

Rank among the Core Papers in Liquid Water 

• The paper K. Stokely, M. G. Mazza, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, 

Effect of hydrogen bond cooperativity on the behavior of water, Proceedings 

of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107, 1301- 

1306 (2010), it is ranked 6th by citations among the Core Papers in 

Liquid Water 14 . 

13 http://esi.webofknowledge.com/wospaper.cgiarticleid=\&cluster\_key= 

STOK1301100107PK 

14 http://esi.webofknowledge.com/toppaperpage.cgiresearchfrontid=13706\ 

&option=R\&rficon=Y\&lastsortby=1 

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Publication List 


Peer-Reviewed Research Articles 

1. V. Cataudella, G. Franzese, M. Nicodemi, A. Scala and A. Coniglio, 

Critical Clusters and Efficient Dynamics for Frustrated Spin Models, 

Physical Review Letter, 72, 1541 (1994). 


Generalized Percolation Models for Frustrated Spin Systems, Il Nuovo 

Cimento, 16 D, N.8, 1259 (1994) 


PercolationandclusterMonteCarlodynamicsforspinmodels, Physical 

Review E 54, 175 (1996) 

4. G. Franzese, Cluster Analysis for Percolation on Two Dimensional 

Fully Frustrated System, Journal of Physics A: Mat. and General 29, 

7367 (1996) 

5. G. Franzese, V. Cataudella and A. Coniglio, Invaded Cluster Dynamics 

for Frustrated Models, Physical Review E 57, 88 (1998) 

6. G. Franzese,A.Fierro,A.deCandiaandA.Coniglio,Autocorrelation 

Functions in 3D Fully Frustrated Systems Physica A 257 (1998) 

7. G. Franzese and A. Coniglio, Phase Transitions in the Potts Spin 

Glass Model, Physical Review E 58, 2753 (1998) 

8. A. Fierro, G. Franzese, A. de Candia and A. Coniglio, Percolation 

transitionandtheonsetofnonexponentialrelaxation infullyfrustrated 

models, Physical Review E 59, 60 (1999) 

9. G. Franzese and A. Coniglio, Precursor phenomena in frustrated systems, 

Physical Review E 59, 6409 (1999) 

10. G. Franzese and A. Coniglio, The Potts frustrated model: relations 

with glasses, Philosophical Magazine B 79, 1807 (1999) 

11. V. Cataudella, G. Franzese, S.E. Korshunov and R. Fazio, How the 

next nearest neighbor interactions change the phase diagram of a fully 

frustrated XY model Physica B 284, 431 (2000) 

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12. G. Franzese, Potts fully frustrated model: Thermodynamics, percolation 

and dynamics in two dimensions, Physical Review E 61, 6383 

(2000) 

13. G. Franzese, V. Cataudella, S.E. Korshunov and R. Fazio, Fully Frustrated 

XY model with next-nearest-neighbor interaction, 

Rapid Communication on Physical Review B 62, R9287 (2000) 

14. G. Franzese, G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S.V. Buldyrev, and H. E. 

Stanley, Generic mechanism for generating a liquid-liquid phase transition, 

Nature 409, 692 (2001). 

15. S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, N. Giovambattista, G. Malescio, M. R. 

Sadr-Lahijany, A. Scala, A. Skibinsky and H. E. Stanley, Models for a 

Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition, Physica A 304, 23 (2002). 

16. G. Franzese and H.E. Stanley, Liquid-liquid critical point in a Hamiltonian 

model for water: analytic solution, Journal of Physics: 

Condensed Matter 14, 2201 (2002). 

17. G. Malescio, G. Franzese, G. Pellicane, A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev 

and H.E. Stanley, Liquid-liquid phase transition in one component fluids, 

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14, 2193 (2002). 

18. G. Franzese and H.E. Stanley, A theory for discriminating the mechanism 

responsible for the water density anomaly, Physica A 314, 508 

(2002). 

19. G. Franzese, G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. 

Stanley,Metastableliquid-liquidphasetransitioninasingle-component 

system with only one crystal phase and no density anomaly, Physical 

Review E 66, 051206 (2002). 

20. G. Franzese, M. I. Marqués and H.E. Stanley, Intra-molecular coupling 

as a mechanism for a liquid-liquid phase transition, 

Physical Review E 67, 011103 (2003). 

21. G. Franzese, R. Raimondi and R. Fazio, Parity-dependent Kondo 

effect in ultrasmall metallic grains, Europhysics Letters 62, 264 (2003). 

22. G. Franzese, Fast relaxation time in a spin model with glassy behavior, 

Fractals 11, 129 (2003). 

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23. A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, G. Malescio, and H. E. 

Stanley, Liquid-liquid phase transitions for soft-core attractive potentials, 

Physical Review E 69, 061206 (2004). 

24. H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, N. Giovanbattista, and F. 

W. Starr, Static and dynamic heterogeneities in water, Philosophycal 

Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and 

Engineering Sciences 363, 509 (2005). 

25. G.Ausanio,L.DeArcangelis,G. Franzese,V.Iannotti,C.Jr. Luponio, 

andL.Lanotte,Dynamicresponselimitsofanelasticmagnet,Journal of 

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 290-291, 836 (2005). 

26. G. Malescio, G. Franzese, A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. 

Stanley, Liquid-liquid phase transition for an attractive isotropic potentialwithwiderepulsiverange, 

Physical Review E71, 061504(2005). 

27. P. Kumar, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley, Molecular 

Dynamics Study of Orientational Cooperativity in Water, Physical 

Review E 73, 041505 (2006). 

28. G. Franzese, and H. E. Stanley, The Widom Line of Supercooled 

Water, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 19, 205126 (2007). 

29. G. Franzese, Differences between discontinuous and continuous softcore 

attractive potentials: the appearance of density anomaly, Journal 

of Molecular Liquids 136, 267 (2007). 

30. A. Barros de Oliveira, G. Franzese, P. A. Netz, and M. C. Barbosa, 

Waterlike hierarchy of anomalies in a continuous spherical shouldered 

potential, Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 064901 (2008). 

31. P. Kumar, G. Franzese, and H. E. Stanley, Predictions of Dynamic 

Behavior under Pressure for Two Scenarios to Explain Water Anomalies, 

Physical Review Letters 100, 105701 (2008). 

32. P. Kumar, G. Franzese, and H. E. Stanley, Dynamics and Thermodynamics 

of Water, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20, 244114 

(2008). 

33. H. E. Stanley, P. Kumar, L. Xu, G. Franzese, Z. Yan, M. G. Mazza, 

S. V. Buldyrev, S.-H. Chen, and F. Mallamace, Liquid Polyamorphism: 

Possible Explanation of Water’s Anomalies, Eur. Phys. J. Special 

Topics 161, 1 (2008). 

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34. G. Franzese, K. Stokely, X.-Q. Chu, P. Kumar, M. G. Mazza, S.- 

H. Chen, and H. E. Stanley, Pressure Effects in Supercooled Water: 

comparison between a 2D model of water and experiments for surface 

water on a protein, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20, 494210 

(2008). 

35. M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, E. G. Strekalova, H. E. Stanley, and G. 

Franzese, Cluster Monte Carlo and numerical mean field analysis for 

the water liquid–liquid phase transition, Computer Physics 

Communications 180, 497-502 (2009). 

36. H. E. Stanley, P. Kumar, S. Han, M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, S. V. 

Buldyrev, G. Franzese, F. Mallamace, and L. Xu, Heterogeinties 

in Confined Water and Protein Hydration Water, Journal of Physics: 

Condensed Matter, 21, 504105 (2009). 

37. G. Franzese and F. de los Santos, Dynamically Slow Processes in 

Supercooled Water Confined Between Hydrophobic Plates, Journal of 

Physics: Condensed Matter, 21, 504107 (2009). 

38. K.Stokely, M.G.Mazza, H.E.Stanley, andG. Franzese, Effectofhydrogen 

bond cooperativity on the behavior of water, Proceedings of the 

National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107, 1301-1306 (2010). 

39. H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, S. Havlin, F. Mallamace, 

P. Kumer, V. Plerou, and T. Preis, Correlated Randomness and 

Switching Phenomena, Physica A, 389, 2880 (2010). 

40. H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, P. Kumar, F. Mallamace, 

M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, and L. Xu, Liquid Polymorphism: Water 

in Nanoconfined and Biological Environments, Journal of Physics: 


41. G. Franzese, A. Hernando-Martínez, P. Kumar, M. G. Mazza, K. 

Stokely, E. G. Strekalova, F. de los Santos, H. E. Stanley Phase Transitions 

and Dynamics in Bulk and Interfacial Water, Journal of Physics: 


42. P. Vilaseca, G. Franzese, Softness dependence of the anomalies for 

the continuous shouldered well potential, Journal of Chemical Physics 

133, 084507 (2010). 

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43. P. Vilaseca, G. Franzese, Isotropic soft-core potentials with two characteristic 

length scales and anomalous behavior, Journal of Non-Crystalline 

Solids 357, 419 (2011). 

44. H.E. Stanley, S.V. Buldyrev, P. Kumar, F. Mallamace, M.G. Mazza, K. 

Stokely, L. Xu, G. Franzese, Water in Nanoconfined and Biological 

Environments, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 357, 629 (2011). 

45. G. Franzese, V. Bianco, and S. Iskrov, Water at interface with proteins, 

Food Biophysics, 6, 186 (2011). 

46. E. G. Strekalova, M. G. Mazza, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, Large 

decrease of fluctuations for supercooled water in hydrophobic nanoconfinement, 

Physical Review Letters 106, 145701 (2011) 

47. F. de los Santos, and G. Franzese, Understanding diffusion and density 

anomaly in a coarse-grained model for water confined between 

hydrophobic walls, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115, 14311 

(2011). 

48. M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, S. E. Pagnotta, F. Bruni, H. E. Stanley, G. 

Franzese, More than one dynamic crossover in protein hydration water, 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108, 

19873 (2011). 

49. V. Bianco, S. Iskrov, and G. Franzese, Understanding the role of 

hydrogen bonds in water dynamics and protein stability, Journal of 

Biological Physics 38 27 (2012). 

50. E. G. Strekalova, D. Corradini, M. G. Mazza, S. V. Buldyrev, P. Gallo, 

G. Franzese and H. E. Stanley, Effect of hydrophobic environments 

on the hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point of water, Journal of 

Biological Physics 38 97 (2012). 

51. E. G. Strekalova, M. G. Mazza, H. E. Stanley, G. Franzese, Hydrophobic 

nanoconfinement suppresses fluctuations in supercooled water, 

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 24, 064111 (2012). 

52. F. de los Santos, and G. Franzese, Relations between the diffusion 

anomalyandcooperativerearrangingregionsinahydrophobicallynanoconfinedwatermonolayer,Rapid 

CommunicationonPhysical Review E 

85, 010602(R) (2012). 

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53. T. Kesselring, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, H. J. Herrmann, H. 

E. Stanley, Nanoscale Dynamics of Phase Flipping in Water near its 

Hypothesized Liquid-Liquid Critical Point, Scientific Reports (Nature 

Publishing Group) 2, 474 (2012). 

54. L. Xu, S. V. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, G. Franzese, Homogeneous 

Crystal Nucleation Near a Metastable Fluid-Fluid Phase Transition, 

Physical Review Letters 109, 095702 (2012). 

55. E. G. Strekalova, J. Luo, H. E. Stanley, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, 

Confinement of Anomalous Liquids in Nanoporous Matrices, Physical 

Review Letters 109, 105701 (2012). 

56. M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, Effect 

of pressure on the anomalous response functions of a confined water 

monolayer at low temperature, Journal of Chemical Physics 137, 

204502 (2012). 

57. P.Vilaseca, K.A.Dawson, andG. Franzese, Understandingandmodulating 

the competitive surface-adsorption of proteins, Soft Matter 9, 

6978 (2013). 

58. T. Kesselring, E. Lascaris, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, H. J. Herrmann, 

H. E. Stanley, Finite-size scaling investigation of the liquidliquid 

critical point in ST2 water and its stability with respect to crystallization 

Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 244506 (2013). 

59. G. Franzese, and V. Bianco Water at Biological and Inorganic Interfaces 

Food Biophysics, 8, 153 (2013). 

Book Chapters 

60. S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, N. Giovambattista, G. Malescio, M. R. 

Sadr-Lahijany, A. Scala, A. Skibinsky and H. E. Stanley, Double-Step 

PotentialModelsofFluids: AnomaliesandaLiquid-LiquidPhaseTransition, 

in New Kind of Phase Transitions: Transformations in Disordered 

Substances Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition Phenomena – NATO 

Advanced Research Workshop (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002) V. Brazhkin. 

S. V. Buldyrev, V. Ryzhov and H. E. Stanley eds. pag. 97-120, ISBN: 

1-4020-0825-2. 

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61. G. Franzese, and H. E. Stanley, The metastable liquid-liquid phase 

transition: From water to colloids and liquid metals, in Complexity, 

Metastability and Nonextensivity – 31st Workshop of the International 

School of Solid State Physics, edited by C. Beck, G. Benedek, A. Rapisarda 

and C. Tsallis (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005) pag. 210-214, 

ISBN: 981-256-525-6. 

62. P. Kumar, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley, Dynamics 

of water at low temperatures and implications for biomolecules, in Aspects 

of Physical Biology: Biological Water, Protein Solutions, Transport 

and Replication, Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 752, edited by 

G. Franzese and M. Rubí (Springer, 2008), pag. 3-22, ISBN: 978-3- 

540-78764-8. 

63. K. Stokely, M. G. Mazza, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, Metastable 

Water Under Pressure, in Metastable Systems under Pressure, Series: 

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology, 

edited by S. J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska, and V. A. Mazur (Springer, 

2010), pag. 197–216, ISBN: 978-90-481-3407-9. 

64. G. Franzese, andH.E.Stanley, Understandingtheunusualproperties 

of water, in Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H 2 0, edited by 

R. M. Lynden-Bell, S. Conway Morris, J. D. Barrow, J. L. Finney, C. 

Harper (Taylor & Francis, 2010); ISBN: 978-143-980-356-1. 

65. V. Bianco, G. Franzese, R. Ruberto, and S. Ancherbak, Water and 

anomalousliquids, inProceedings of the International School of Physics 

“Enrico Fermi”, Vol. 176, Complex Materials in Physics and Biology, 

F. Mallamace and H. E. Stanley eds. (IOS Press, 2012), pag. 113–128, 

ISBN: 978-1-61499-070-3. 

66. V. Bianco, O. Vilanova, and G. Franzese, Polyamorphism and polymorphism 

of a confined water monolayer: liquid-liquid critical point, 

liquid-crystal and crystal-crystal phase transitions, in Proceedings of 

“Perspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems 

for the Next Decade: A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley 

and Liacir Lucena”, M. G. E. da Luz, E. P. Raposo, and G. M. 

Viswanathan eds. (World Scientific, 2013), pag. 126–149. 

67. V. Bianco, M. G. Mazza, K. Stokely, F. Bruni, H. E. Stanley, and 

G. Franzese, Prediction and observation of two dynamic crossovers 

in hydration water allows the reconciliation of simulations and experiments, 

in Proceedings of “Symposium on the Fragility of Glass-formers: 

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A Conference in Honor of C. Austen Angell”, R. Ganapathy, A. L. 

Greer, K. F. Kelton, S. Sastry eds. (JNCASR, Bengaluru, 2013). 

Edited Books 

68. G. Franzese and M. Rubí Editors, Aspects of Physical Biology: Biological 

Water, Protein Solutions, Transport and Replication Series: 

Lecture Notes in Physics, 752, Springer Berlin 2008, 280 p., ISBN: 

978-3-540-78764-8. 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings 


Monte Carlo Fast Dynamics for Frustrated Systems, in Non equilibrium 

phenomena in supercooled fluids, glasses and amorphous materials 

– Proceedings of the Workshop, (World Scientific, Singapore 1996) 

M.Giordano, D.Leporini, M.P.Tosi eds. ISBN: 981-02-2795-7. 

70. G. Franzese, V. Cataudella and A. Coniglio, SOC Dynamics for Fully 

Frustrated Spin Systems, in Physics of Complex Systems – Proceedings 

of International School Enrico Fermi, Varenna, Jul. 1996 pag. 745 - 

745. ISBN: 90-5199-351-X. 

71. G. Franzese, M. Yamada and H.E. Stanley, Hydrogen-bonded liquids 

with two critical points: effects of correlation of orientational degrees 

of freedom, in Statistical Physics – 3rd Tohwa University International 

Conference, AIP Conf Proc. 519, 281–287 (2000), (American Institute 

ofPhysics, Melville, 2000), M.TokuyamaandH.E.Stanleyeds. ISBN: 

1-56396-940-8. 

72. H. E. Stanley, P. Kumar, G. Franzese, L. Xu, Z. Yan, M. G. Mazza, 

S.-H. Chen, F. Mallamace, and S. V. Buldyrev, Liquid Polyamorphism: 

Some Unsolved Puzzles of Water in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological 

Environments, in 5th International Workshop on Complex Systems 

Sendai, JAPAN, SEP 25-28, 2007, COMPLEX SYSTEMS, Series: 

AIP Conf Proc. 982, 251–271 (2008), edited by M. Tokuyama, I. 

Oppenheim, and H. Nishiyama. ISBN: 978-0-7354-0501-1 

73. H.E.Stanley,S.V.Buldyrev,S.-H.Chen,G. Franzese,S.Han,P.Kumar, 

F. Mallamace, M. G. Mazza, L. Xu, and Z. Yan, Liquid Polyamorphism 

and the Anomalous Behavior of Water, in 2008 Annual Meeting 

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of DFG, Berlin, Series: Advances in Solid State Physics 48 249–266 

(2009), edited by R. Haug. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg). 

74. F. de los Santos and G. Franzese, Influence of intramolecular couplings 

in a model for hydrogen-bonded liquids, in Modeling and Simulation 

of New Materials: Tenth Granada Lectures, Series: AIP Conf 

Proc. 1091, 185–197 (2009), edited by P. L. Garrido, J. Marro, and P. 

I. Hurtado. ISBN: 978-0-7354-0624-7 

75. H.E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, S. Havlin, F. Mallamace, 

M.G.Mazza, P.Kumar, V.Plerou, T.Preis, K.Stokely, L.Xu, Switching 

Phenomena, Proceedings of the first interdisciplinary chess interactions 

conference, 1-24 (2010). 

76. E. Lascaris, T. A. Kesselring, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, H. J. 

Herrmann, and H. E. Stanley, Response Functions near the Liquid- 

Liquid Critical Point of ST2 Water in 4th International Symposium 

on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems, AIP Conference Proceedings 

1518, 520–526 (2013), edited by M. Tokuyama and I. Oppenheim. 

77. V. Bianco, O. Vilanova, G. Franzese, Going deep into supercooled 

water in Proceedings of the Barcelona Postgrad Encounters on Fundamental 

Physics, 103–126 (2013), edited by D. Fernández, M. B. Fröb, 

I. Latella, A. Dector, ISBN-10: 8461642937. 

Conference Proceedings 

78. G. Franzese, R. Chirone and P. Salatino, DLA and Percolation Approaches 

to Account for Structural Heterogeneities on the Cohesiveness 

of Fine Powders, in Proceedings of Combustion Meeting ’95 (CUEN, 

Napoli 1995). 

79. H.E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Franzese, N. Giovambattista, E. La 

Nave, G. Malescio, A. Scala, F. Sciortino, A. Skibinsky, F. W. Starr, 

Slow dynamics and liquid-liquid phase transition in water Abstracts of 

Papers of the American Chemical Society 224, 102 (2002). 

Preprints on cond-mat archive (submitted) 

80. V. Bianco and G. Franzese, “Critical behavior of a water monolayer 

under hydrophobic confinement”, arXiv:1212.2847 (2012). 

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81. O. Vilanova, and G. Franzese, “Structural and dynamical properties 

of nanoconfined supercooled water”, arXiv:1102.2864 (2011). 

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