Curriculum vitae of Prof. Luca Lozzi

 

 

Career

 

1986                      Laurea in Physics (110/110 cum laude), University of L'Aquila, Italy, with final thesis on the structural and electronic properties of metal clusters, supervisor Prof. M. De Crescenzi

1990 –1991          Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA, grant from the CNR (Italian National Research Council);

1992 - 2015          Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy

2015 – 2018          Associate Professor at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy

2018-present        Full Professor at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy

 

From 2017 to 2022 he has been the Director of the Microscopy Centre of the University of L’Aquila. In this period more than € 800.000 have been invested both in the purchase of new instruments, as a new SEM (Zeiss Gemini500), FTIR microscope, new optical microscopes, and in the up-grade of other equipment, as FTIR (Bruker Vertex 70v, including a large database with more than 26.000 spectra), correlative spectroscopy (Zeiss Imager M2), motorized x-y sample holder (Confocal Leica TCS SP5).

 

From 2021 he is Director of the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, in which more than 65 professors and researchers work and teach. The teaching activity is performed for almost all physics and chemistry courses of the University of L’Aquila. About 10 technicians and 6 people for the administrative staff guaranties the technical and administrative support. There are about 300 Bachelor (1st level), 100 Master (2nd level) and 30 PhD students, which are enrolled in 2 1st level degree (Bachelor) programs (Physics, Chemical and Materials Sciences), 3 2nd level degree (Master) programs (Physics, Chemistry, Atmospheric Science and Technology) and in the PhD degree in Physical and Chemical Science.

 

Research activity

 

All the research activities have been devoted to study the surface and interface properties of clean surfaces (metals and semiconductors) and ultra thin films (metallic, oxides, organic molecules) deposited onto them. The experimental studies have been performed using several techniques, like XPS, UPS, ARUPS, LEED, EELS, STM, AFM, AES, XRD, SEM. Some of the experiments have been also performed at synchrotron radiation facilities: Alladin, (Madison, USA), Elettra, (Trieste, Italy), Lure (Paris, France).

Present research activities are: metal oxide and polymeric nanofibers, metal-organic interfaces for organic devices; carbon nanotubes and thin organic films as gas sensors, carbon nanotubes-organic molecules interfaces for sensors devices.

 

During this research activity he has been co-author of more than 170 papers on international journals (h-index=38, sum citations without self-citations = 5000, Scopus Dec. 2022)

He has been referee of several international journals (as Surface Science, Thin Solid Films, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics) and expert for FP7 projects.

 

A part for these basic-character researches, he has a long experience for collaboration with industries, in particular microelectronics ones, as Texas Instruments Italia (Avezzano, Aq, Italy), Micron Technologies Italia (Avezzano, Aq, Italy), LFoundry (Avezzano, AQ, Italy), Thales Alenia Space (L’Aquila, Italy), CREO (L’Aquila), Vibac (L’Aquila, Italy). This activity is performed using XPS, XRD, AES techniques.

 

Teaching activity

 

In the last years he has been in charge of several classes:

 

1)       Physics Laboratory (Statistics, Mechanics and Thermodynamics) at the first year of the Material Science Diploma, 45 hours class;

2)       Physics Laboratory (Statistics, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics) at the second year of the Biology Course, 45 hours class;

3)       Physics Laboratory (Statistics, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics) at the second year of the Environmental Science Course, 45 hours class;

4)       Semiconductor Physics, at the last (fourth) year of the Physics Course, 45 hours class.

5)       Applied Physics Laboratory, at the last (fourth) year of the Physics Course, 90 hours class, in which students have performed experiments using different techniques, like XPS, XRD, STM/AFM, NMR, SEM/TEM, I-V, SMOKE.

6)       Thin Film and Surface Techniques, at the fourth year of the Physics Course, 45 hours class (vacuum, deposition techniques, analysis techniques, surface and interfaces characteristics).

7)       Solid State Physics, at the third year of the Chemistry and Material Science Course, 45 hours class.

8)       Micro and Nano-Physics, at the second year for the Master degree in Physics, 50 hours class (surfaces, metal-metal and metal-semiconductor interfaces)

9)       Physics of Matter with Laboratory, at the second year of the Chemistry Course, 80 hours class (atomic physics).

10)   Semiconductor Physics with Laboratory, at the third year of the Chemistry Course, 80 hours class.

11)   Electronic Devices, at the first year of Master Degree in Electronic Engineering, 30 hours class (from quantum mechanics to semiconductor properties)