Luciano Pietronero

Luciano Pietro Nero ( * December 15, 1949 in Rome ) is an Italian theoretical physicist who deals with statistical physics. He is Professor of Solid State Physics at the University of Rome (La Sapienza ). He is the Director of The Institute for Complex Systems (ISC ) ​​of the Italian National Research Council (CNR ), whose co-founder, he was in 2004.

Life

Pietro Nero studied at the University of Rome with the Laurea degree in 1971, worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Rome ( where he was in Bruno Touschek with the Thirring - Lense effect of general relativity dealt ) and in Orsay and was then 1974/75 to the research centers of Xerox in New York ( Xerox Webster research Center) and from 1975 to 1984 to that of Brown Boveri in Baden. In 1983 he went as Professor of Solid State Physics at the University of Groningen in 1987 and returned as a professor at the University of Rome. 1992 to 1995 he was head of the theory group there and 1995 to 2001 he was director of the CNR - INFM there Research Centre ( the largest research group in solid-state physics in Italy, with over 200 scientists ).

In 1982 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and at the Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University.

It deals with statistical physics and fractals with applications in solid state physics, financial mathematics and cosmology ( galaxy correlations). In solid-state physics, he is concerned among other things with the one-dimensional electron systems and Peierls instability, the electronic properties of molecular crystals, ion conductors, electron transport in synthetic metals and polymers, polymer Statistics and Random Walks, melting at surfaces, critical behavior of charge-density waves. He turned the theory of renormalization, among other things on the dynamics of rough surfaces and self-organized criticality (SOC ). In the theory of fractals, he led in 1984, the Dielectric Breakdown Model A ( with L. Niemeyer. HJ Wiesmann, W. Schneider). He also dealt with high-temperature superconductors and developed the theory of non- adiabatic superconductors ( from 1992).

In 2008 he received the Premio Enrico Fermi.

Writings

• With A. Gabrielli, FS Labini, Michael Joyce Statistical physics of cosmic structures, Springer Verlag 2004
• Ed altre storie Complessita, Di Renzo Editore 2007