Profile Stefano Bellucci

Dr. Prof. habil. Stefano Bellucci obtained in 1982 the Laurea in Physics Degree at Univ. Sapienza Rome (summa cum laude) and in 1986 his Ph.D. in Physics of elementary particles at SISSA, Trieste. He worked as Research Associate at Brandeis Univ., USA (1983-1985); as visiting researcher at M.I.T., Cambridge, USA (1985-1986), at Univ. of Maryland, USA (1986-1987), at Univ. of California at Davis, USA (1987-1988). He was appointed as a Tenured Researcher (Research Staff) at INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) in1987. He was appointed as INFN First Researcher (Senior Research Staff) in 2005. He coordinated (1999-2002, 2011-2015) all LNF theoretical physics activities. Italy Ministry of University in 2013 habilitated him as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions and in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Since 2018 he is contract Professor of Nanotechnology for Electrical Applications at the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale. Contract Professor of Quantum Mechanics (Physics III), for third year students in the Diploma Course in Physical Methods (2000-2022), Department of Physics, University of Roma Tre. His research interests include theoretical physics, condensed matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanocarbon based composites, toxicology, biomedical applications. His lab cultivated over 40 PhD and master students. He published 600 papers with 14834 citations (5001 citations since 2017) in peer-reviewed journals with Hirsch index h = 58, and 20 invited book chapters, http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mOq8urEAAAAJ. Editor and/or co-author of over 10 books with Springer. Top Italian Scientists, with rank 44 https://topitalianscientists.org/tis/3422/Stefano_Bellucci_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Material_&_Nano_Sciences.

Received B.W. Lee Prize at Erice School of Subnuclear Physics (Italy) 1982. In 1980 he was selected as Summer student at CERN (Geneva). He led INFN applied physics CSN5 experiments: 2006-2010 NEXT for new electron sources and X radiation, 2004-2006 MINCE for micro and nano technology, 2001-2004 NANO for carbon-based nanotechnology. He was in 2007-2010 INFN Scientist and technologist in charge for EU FP7-ICT-2007-1 Collaborative Project CATHERINE ”Carbon nAnotube Technology for Highspeed nExt-geneRation nano-InterconNEcts”.
He is Editor-in-chief of Section Carbon MDPI Materials; Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology; Editor-in-chief of Hindawi Journal of Nanomaterials; biannual (2012-2014) Associate Editor of ASP Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters. He is Editorial Board Member of e.g. the MDPI Journal of Functional Biomaterials, Hindawi Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, and Computer Modelling and New Technologies.
He is Director of the NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division, SPS Programme projects “Nanocomposite based photonic crystal sensors of biological and chemical agents,” “Development of Biosensors using Carbon Nanotubes”. He is Principal Investigator of Time2Quest Condensed Matter Theory INFN CSN4 project, and of Research Group Projects 2020 “High Pressure Sanification of Water for Foodborne Virus removal (HPSWFood)”.
He is INFN scientist in charge of University Research Ministry project “a Smart Framework for vIrus Detection (SFIDE)” and of EU project “Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond, GRAPHENE Flagship” Core1, and of Health Ministry project “Delivery and imaging of miRNAs by multifunctional carbon nanotubes and circulating miRNAs as innovative therapeutic and diagnostic tools for pediatric pulmonary hypertension”, and of Space Agency project “SHAPE-A New Theoretical Framework of Microgravity-Cell Interaction”.