Luciano Colombo short CV
Born: Venice (I), Aug. 6th, 1960
Citizenship: Italian
Contact details: Department of Physics – University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (Ca), Italy
Phone: +39 070 675 4871
E-mail: luciano.colombo@unica.it
Website: people.unica.it/lucianocolombo
Public profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-4652
CURRENT POSITION
• Tenured full professor of Condensed Matter Physics
• Fellow of the “Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”
EDUCATION
• 1984: master degree (cum laude) in Physics at the University of Pavia,
• 1989: Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy
• 1989: post-doc research associate at IRRMA, EPFL, Switzerland
• 1990: junior research associate at SISSA, Trieste, Italy
APPOINTMENTS
• 1990-1996: assistant professor (tenured), University of Milano, Italy
• 1996-1999: assistant professor (tenured), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• 1999-2002: associate professor (tenured), University of Cagliari, Italy
• 2002-present: full professor (tenured), University of Cagliari, Italy
• 2010-2011: visiting professor at University College Dublin, Ireland
• 2015-2016: visiting professor at ICN2 and ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Nanoscale thermal transport in 2dimensional atomic sheets, glasses, and discontinuous-matter systems
PROJECT LEADERSHIP
• P.I. of 20+ projects funded by Italian (MIUR, INFM, RAS), European (EU), and international (NATO) institutions.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
• 250+ papers (source: ISI WoS), 2 authored books, 4 edited volumes; 70+ invited talks.
CITATION METRICS
• ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-9013-2013
MENTORING AND SUPERVISION
• 60+ Bachelor and Master theses; 16 Ph.D. theses; 12 post-docs; 2 research assistants
HONOURS
• 1994: “Advanced Research Grant” awarded by NATO
• 1994 Gordon-Bell prize of the IEEE Computer Society (co-recipient with S. Goedecker of the Cornell Theory Center)
• 2013: “Excellent Researcher Grant (REG)” awarded by the European Metrology Research Project
• 2015: Fellow of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienza e Lettere (Italian: socio corrispondente)