Personal data
Birth: 9 November 1943, Nonantola (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
Marital status: Married, 3 children
Address: SISSA, via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Phone: +39-040-3787-438 (SISSA); -437 secretary; -528 fax
+39-040-2240289 (ICTP); -540 secretary; -410 fax
E-mail: tosatti_at_sissa.it , tosatti_at_ictp.it
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/tosattierio/
Education
1967 Degree in Physics, University of Modena, cum Laude
1970 Physics Doctorate, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, magna cum Laude.
Positions
1977-now Co-founder and Scientific Consultant , Condensed Matter Group, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste
1980-2014 Professor and founder of Condensed Matter Theory Group, International School For Advanced Studies (SISSA),Trieste
2003-now Chairman, ICTP Scientific Programmes Office
1970-71 Weather forecast service, Italian Air Force
1971-76 CNR Researcher, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1972-73 Royal Society/NATO Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
1974 DFG Stipendium, University of Stuttgart, Germany
1977 Senior NATO Fellow, Stanford University, USA
1977-80 CNR Senior Researcher, and Physics Lecturer, University of Trieste
1984-85 Visiting Scientist, IBM Zurich Research Center
2002-03 Acting Director, ICTP, Trieste
Memberships
Italian Physical Society
European Physical Society
American Physical Society (Fellow, and life member)
Honors
The Francesco Somaini Triennial Physics Prize, Como, 1997
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2001
Tate Medal for Int’l Leadership in Physics, American Institute of Physics,
Washington DC, 2005
Corresponding Member, Accademia Nazionale del Lincei, Rome, 2006
Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., 2011
Member, Accademia Istituto Lombardo (Brera), Milan, 2012
Named Lectures
The Eli Burstein Lecture Award, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1994
The Alessandro Volta Medal and Lecture, Pavia, 2011
The Enrico Fermi Colloquium, LENS, Florence, 2011
Publications and impact
Books (including Edited) 12
Articles and Review Articles in journals and books approx 500
Total Citations (Google Scholar Citations) approx 18,500
Hirsch index H (Google Scholar Citations) approx. 72
PhD Thesis Students Supervised 1981-2014 34
Current Research Interests
Theory of Nanofriction
Mott Insulating and Superconducting States of Fullerides and Organics
Theory of Metallic and Magnetic Nanocontacts
Strong Electron Correlations at Surfaces
Physics of Ultra-High Pressures
Quantum Effects near Ferroelectric and Structural Phase Transitions