Alfonso ROMANO | Curriculum

EDUCATION
- March 1987, degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude)
- September 1993, Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Naples (Thesis “The periodic Anderson model: expansion around the atomic limit”, advisor Prof. M. Marinaro)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- October 1987, One-year grant from Digital Equipment S.p.A. for research activity at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Salerno
- October 1992, Assistant Professor of Physics of Matter at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno (permanent position)
- January 2005, Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno

VISITING POSITIONS
- September 1994, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino (Italy)
- November 1995, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brasil)
- July 1996, Institute of Physics, "A. Mickiewicz" University, Poznan (Poland)
- September 1996, Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracovia (Poland)
- November 1997-Febbraio 1998, Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, Grenoble (France)
- September 2000, Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, Grenoble (France)
- September 2001, Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, Grenoble (France)
- September 2005, Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, Grenoble (France)

TEACHING ACTVITY
- Teacher of graduate courses in Classical Physics for Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences students at the University of Salerno
- Teacher of graduate courses in Classical Physics, Analytical Mechanics and Solid State Physics for students in Physics at the University of Salerno

ORGANIZATION
- Research leader in the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 of the scientific project "Correlazioni e/o superconduttività in sistemi reticolari e amorfi" ("Correlations and/or superconductivity in lattice and amorphous systems") supported by the Italian Scientific Research Ministery
- Member of Committees for the assignment of stable positions as Assistant Professor in Physics of Matter
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Library of the Science Faculty of the University of Salerno (1-10-2004/30-9-2007 and 1-10-2007/30-9-2010)
- Deputy to Infrastructures for the Department of Physics "E.R. Caianiello" of the University of Salerno (years 2001-2014)
- Member since October 2008 of the Committee for Cultural Activities of the Department of Physics "E.R. Caianiello" of the University of Salerno
- Member of the Faculty of Sciences Committee for the Relationships with Secondary Schools (1-1-2009/31-12-2011, 1-1-2012/31-12-2013)
- General Coordinator of the Courses in Physics of the University of Salerno (1-1-2009/31-12-2012)
- Vice-Director of the Department of Physics “E.R. Caianiello” of the University of Salerno (1-1-2010/31-12-2012)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY
- Competition and coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in unconventional superconductors and in superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures
- Phenomenology and models for systems with coupled bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom in connection with the study of the pseudogap phase in high critical temperature superconductors
- Phenomenology of electron-doped high-Tc superconductors
- Exact diagonalization techniques on finite-size clusters for strongly correlated electron models as well as for models with coupled bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom
- Normal and superconducting properties of strongly correlated electron systems described i terms of the Hubbard and the periodic Anderson model
- Phenomenologic models for tunneling spectroscopy experiments on high-Tc superconductors