Vincenzo Fiorentini

personal page


via Garibaldi 40, 09045 Quartu (CA), Italy
via F. Coletti 29, 00191 Roma, Italy; Tel : +39-06-45507146
e-mail (personal) : vfiorentini@tiscali.it, vincenzo.fiorentini@gmail.com
mobile: +39-347-1410906

Vincenzo Fiorentini  (Padova, Italy, 1960) is associate professor of condensed matter physics at Cagliari University since 2001.  He is the proud father of two terrific (occasionally, terrifying) girls, Isabella, 23, and Beatrice, 21, and with his third special girl, physicist Paola Alippi, of 12-years-old Giovanni, formerly known as "il Girino" (the tadpole; a few of (rather old) Giovanni's photos are here).

Currently he is devoting most of his time to his offsprings, trying to keep up with his research at the Physics Department of Cagliari University and at the Cagliari unit of CNR-IOM, and teaching at the Engineering and Physics schools atCagliari Uni. In the rest (?) of his time he reads and listens to music, blogs occasionally, and has fun with Mac and iYounameit's. He recently taken up guitar playing again after a few decades, and is into jazz standards and improvisation (well, he'd like to be, anyway). He occasionally observes stars and planets from his dehors with an 8x40 binocular and a 4.5" reflector, courtesy of his family for the 2012 birthday. VF's siblings are Antonio, in the nautical business (books, charts, equipment, transfer, skippering, ...); Erna, formerly a Heisenberg fellow in the field of history of science and art at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, onw at Art History, FU Berlin; Caterina, free-lance musician, teacher and -formerly- landscape geographer based in north-eastern Italy.

VF received the laurea in Physics in 1987 at University of Trieste, Italy, with a thesis on double acceptor spectra in Ge with prof. A. Baldereschi. Thereafter, he spent over a year in the group of J. Schneider at the Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Festkoerperphysik working on acceptor and quantum-well detector spectra. He then moved back to Trieste to work on a Ph.D. thesis on corrections to spectral properties in density functional theory until Oct 1991. After that, following a short stay at Cagliari University, he spent 18 months in the group of M. Scheffler at the Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, working on GaN, transition metal surfaces, and Ag surfactant assisted growth. Meanwhile he was appointed assistant professor at Cagliari University, whereto he moved in October 1993. In January 2001 he was named associate professor at the University of Messina, and thereafter appointed a solid state physics associate professorship at Cagliari University. He has been (2004-08) the founding Director of the Sardinian Laboratory for computational materials, now a research unit of the National Research Council.

VF has worked extensively in the physics and materials science of defects, interfaces, surfaces, and bulk properties of semiconductors, insulators, and metals, under the funding of several agencies including Regione Sardegna, University of Cagliari, INFM, CNR, the UE, and MURST/MIUR. He has received Humboldt scholarship which he spent in 1998-2000 at the Walter Schottky Institut in Munich. He also spent 6 months at Philips Research at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium as a Marie Curie invited professor. He has been a scientific advisor for INFM, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Italian Ministries of Industry and Research, the Swiss, USA, Estonian and Rumanian NSFs, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Semiconductor Division of the National Institute for Condensed Matter Physics. He has been a member of several conference program committees, and has co-organized the Computational Materials Science Workshops and Euroconferences (1994-2006) in Sardinia. He is a referee for many journals, including Nature, PRL, PRB, and APL. He teaches Computational Physics and, after many years of solid-state related classes, Electromagnetism for engineering majors.



Document made with Nvu