Giancarlo Ruocco: professore universitario

Giancarlo Ruocco
Dipartimento di Fisica
Sapienza - Università di Roma

prof. Giancarlo Ruocco
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy
Tel  +39 06 49913443
Fax  +39 06 4463158
mail giancarlo.ruocco@roma1.infn.it

G I A N C A R L O R U O C C O

Curriculum Vitæ

revised July 2006

Personal Data

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Name Giancarlo Ruocco

Citizenship Italian

Place and Date of Birth Roma (Italy), November 7th, 1959

Present Address Dipartimento di Fisica,

Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Piazzale Aldo Moro 2

I-00185, Roma, Italy.

Phone +39 06 49913443

Fax +39 06 4463158

E-mail giancarlo.ruocco@roma1.infn.it

Web-site glass.phys.uniroma1.it

Employments

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1984-1992 Researcher (Structure of Matter)

University of L'Aquila, Italy

1992-1994 Associate professor of “General Physics”

University of L'Aquila, Italy

1994-2000 Associate professor of “Structure of Matter”

University of L'Aquila, Italy

2000-present Full professor of “Structure of Matter”

University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

Education

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1981 - Degree on Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza” , mark 110/110 cum

laude, Thesis “Dinamica vibrazionale intramolecolare in acqua liquida”, advisors

Professors Vittorio Mazzacurati and Giovanni Signorelli.

Languages

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Italian Native

English Fluent

French Basic

Teaching Activities

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1984-1992 - Lectures on “Structure of Matter”

Laurea courses in Physics

1992-1994 - Lessons on “General Physics I (Mechanics)”

Laurea Courses in Electronic Engineering

1994-2000 - Lessons on “Experimental Physics”

Laurea courses in Physics

2000-2002 - Lessons on “Statistics and Data Analysis”

Laurea courses in Biology

2002-2003 - Lessons on “General Physics II”

Laurea courses in Physics

2003-2006 - Lessons on “General Physics I”

Laurea courses in Physics

Lessons given to different PhD courses (in L’Aquila, Perugia, Roma)

Lessons given to different national and international schools

Supervisor of approx 25 Laurea Thesis and 15 PhD Thesis

Member of PhD Thesis committee in different European countries

Organizer (chairman) of two national schools for PhD and PostDoc students.

Service Activities

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Member of the “Council” of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

(ESRF).

Member of the “Scientific Advisory Committee” (SAC) of the European

Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF).

Member of the “Senato Accademico Integrato” of the University of Roma

“La Sapienza”.

Member of the Directive Council of the “Laboratorio Europeo

Spettroscopie non Lineari” (LENS).

Member of the INFM committee “Luce di Sincrotrone” for the coordination

of the INFM actions in the Synchrotron Radiation research.

Referee for Nature, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and E,

Europhysics Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physics:

Condensed Matter and others journals.

Member of the editorial board of the electronic Journal Phys.Chem.Comm.

Member of examination panel in different competition for Researcher

position at CNR, INFM, Universities.

Member of the review panels for different beam-lines at the European

Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF).

Member of the beam-time review panel HS (hard condensed matter) at

the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF).

Research Activities

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Director of the INFM Research Center “SOFT”. The research center is

devoted to the study of the microscopic dynamics of Soft Matter and

disordered materials. At present, the research center coordinates the

actions of almost 50 University scientists and employ a staff of 25

researchers.

Principal Investigator of the PRA2002 INFM project entitled "GenFDT".

Aim of the project is the experimental determination of the generalized

fluctuation-dissipation relation.

Leader of the University group “GLAS” (Liquid and Amorphous Solid

Group) at the department of Physics of the University of Roma “La

Sapienza” (4 researchers, 4 PhD student).

Participant to different projects funded by CNR, INFM, MURST.

Visiting scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

for different periods since 1994.

Author of about 230 publications in international referred journals, among

which almost 50 publications in high impact factor journals (Nature,

Science, Physical Review Letters).

Invited speaker at about 35 international conferences.

Organizer different international conferences.

Current Research Interests

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General framework: Physics of disordered materials and soft matter (liquids,

supercooled liquids, glasses, disordered solids, colloids, polymers).

• Characterization of the high frequency collective dynamics in glasses

• Viscoelastic behavior and properties of supercooled liquids

• Glass transition and dynamical slowing down

• Non equilibrium behavior of disordered matter: aging phenomena

• Disordered matter under external field

• Test of the generalized Fluctuation Dissipation relation

• Test of the Fluctuation Theorem

Experimental Techniques

• Raman scattering

• Brillouin scattering

• Inelastic x-ray scattering

• Photon-correlation spectroscopy (visible, X-ray, Infrared)

• Cross correlation spectroscopy

• Impulse stimulated Brillouin scattering

• Static light scattering

• Rheometry

• Calorimetry

Computational methods

• Molecular dynamics simulation

• Monte Carlo simulation