AFFRONTE Marco

Marco Affronte is Full Professor of Physics at University of Modena (I) and team leader at the Institute of NanoScience S3 of CNR in Italy. After graduating in Physics (Laurea with marks and honors at University of Florence I, 1987), he obtained his Ph.D. at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH) in 1991 and worked at CNRS in Grenoble (F) in 1992–93 with Individual MC Fellowship. Since 1994 he is at University of Modena where he set up and run a laboratory for low temperature experiments.
His background is on Solid State Physics and his skills are in preparation of experiments under extreme conditions. He worked on superconductivity, electronic transport in granular and semiconducting materials, molecular magnetism, development of protocols for deposition of molecules on surfaces and fabrication of nano-devices.
His interests are now focused on NanoSciences, in particular nanomagnetism, spintronics, graphene and on development of nano-devices. He is currently leading scientist in proposing molecular spin clusters for molecular spintronics and quantumtechnologies and he obtained significant results on these topics.
M. Affronte is was/is team leader of several national and European projects: MA coordinates FET Proactive MoQuaS 2013-2016; in 2008-11 he coordinated the EU FP7-ICT FET Open project “MolSpinQIP” and now share coordination of FET Open "Supergalax". He is project reviewer in several National (ANR, Academy of Finland), EU and international panels and member of scientific panel of National and International Conferences, including, among others, FET11 (Budapest, 2011).
M. Affronte is author of more than 230 scientific articles (h-index 47, more than 8000 citations) and he made several oral presentations at international conferences and also to general public. He also contributed to scientific articles in newspapers with interviews.