CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Giancarlo Franzese

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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