MANINI NICOLA

Born: Cles (Trento, Italy) / 6-06-1967
Affiliation: Physics Department - Universita` degli Studi di Milano
webpage: http://materia.fisica.unimi.it/manini/
online full CV: http://materia.fisica.unimi.it/manini/curren.html

*Education

1995, Oct. 27 - Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Theory at SISSA - Trieste -
Italy "cum summa laude". Supervisor: E. Tosatti. External
referee: D. Baeriswyl. Thesis title: "Electron - Vibron Coupling
in Charged Fullerene, Berry Phase, and Superconductivity",
https://cm.sissa.it/thesis/1995/manini

1991, Sep. 19 - M.Sc. in Physics at Universita` degli Studi di Trento -
Italy, with full marks and honor "110/110 cum laude". Thesis
title: "Vibrational Spectroscopy of Four-atomic Molecules".
Supervisors: F. Iachello, S. Oss, and M. Scotoni.

*Positions and professional qualifications

2021-current: full professor - Univ. Milano, Italy.

2011-2021: associate professor - Univ. Milano, Italy.

2001-2011: assistant professor - Univ. Milano, Italy

2000-2001: research scientist - I.N.F.M. and SISSA - Trieste, Italy

1995-2000: research scientist - E.S.R.F. - Grenoble, France

1992: 6 months' research grant - Yale Univ. - New Haven CT, USA


*Visiting stays

2004: Irvine Univ., USA

2000: Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany

1994: Stanford Univ., USA


*Research topics

- Friction at the atomic scale.

- Transport and electron correlation in point defects in silicon
(collaboration with S. Achilli, E. Prati and G. Onida).

- The structuring of thin films of organic ionic liquids in contact with
solid surfaces, and their rheologic properties (collaboration with
P. Ballone and A. Podesta`).

- Ab-initio and model simulation of structural, mechanical, spectroscopic,
and reactivity properties of linear chains composed by sp-hybridized
carbon, the so-called carbynes (collaboration with G. Onida, G. Fratesi,
C.S. Casari, P. Milani, P. Piseri, and others).

- The collective dynamics of ultracold interacting atomic fermions [in
the crossover from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) limit to the
Bose-Einstein-Condensate (BEC)], bosons, and mixtures thereof.

- The vibrational spectra of polyatomic molecules.

- Fundamental quantum mechanics: off-diagonal geometric phases, and
quantum dissipation in a time-dependent regime.

- Electron-phonon interaction and dynamic Jahn-Teller effect.

- Fullerene ions and their solid-state compounds.


*Scientific publications - bibliometric data

Bibliometry (13/3/2022):
total citations(WOS) = 2732; h-index (WOS): 27


*Recognitions and awards

1992: Beneficiary of a fellowship by the Italian Ministry of University and
Research, for a 6 month training/research stay in a foreign country.


*Coordination of scientific projects and grants

2019-2023: Italian research ministry PRIN 2017, "Understanding and Tuning
FRiction through nanOstructure Manipulation (UTFROM)"; NM has the role of
local-unit coordinator.

2012-2017: NM chaired the COST Action
"Understanding and Controlling Nano and Mesoscale Friction"
running from 08/10/2013 to 07/10/2017
on an annual budget in the 130 Keuro region,
involving 200+ participants from 27 countries.


*Editorial activities

Associate editor for Springer scientific series.


*Invited talks at Conferences and invited seminars

28 invited talks to international conferences


*Supervision of PhD students and postdocs

Supervision of 4 PhD students + 2 postdoc


*Teaching activity

Supervised 22 M.Sc. plus 81 B.Sc. thesis student.

Courses Taught at Milan University:

2011-current: "Solid-State Physics 1" ("Fisica dei Solidi 1", 48
hours/year) for the Master's degree in Physics.

2011-current: "Structure of Matter 1" ("Struttura della Materia 1", 65
hours/year) for the Bachelor's degree in Physics.

2003-current: "Quantum Theory of Matter" (10 hours/year) for the Physics,
Astrophysics and Applied Physics PhD School.


*Research evaluation activities

Referee of 100+ manuscripts for the following journals:
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol., Chem. Phys. Lett., Commun. Theor. Phys.,
Comput. Theor. Chem., Eur. Phys. J. B, Europhys Lett., J. Appl. Phys.,
J. Mol. Struct., J. Nanopart. Res., J. Phys. B, J. Phys. Chem. Solids,
J. Supercond. Novel Magnet., Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., Nat. Commun.,
Philos. Mag., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Phys. Lett. A, Phys. Rev. A + B + E
+ Lett., Phys. Status Solidi B, Solid State Commun., Tribol. Lett., and
Rep. Math. Phys.

Referee of research projects for:
- the German Research Foundation (DFG);
- the Italian Supercomputing Center Cineca;
- the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR).