Curriculum

Adolfo AVELLA Curriculum

Birth: 08.04.1973; Salerno, Italy
Status: Married (04.2005) with 2 sons (12.2006, 07.2009)

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Address: Via Ponte don Melillo, I-84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Tel: +39 089 96 9131
Fax: +39 089 96 9658
E-mail: avella@physics.unisa.it
Homepage: http://www.physics.unisa.it/Personal/Homepage.asp?avella

§ Education
- Laurea in Fisica (07.1996); “A Realistic Model for the Description of High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors”; Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy; 110/110 cum laude.
- Ph.D in Physics (02.2000); “Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems and Asymptotic Fields”; Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy; Excellent.

§ Scientific Career and Long-Term Visits
- Visiting Scholar (10.1996); BTLPh of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- Visiting Scholar (01.1999-08.1999); Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
# PostDoc (11.1999-10.2001); Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy.
- Visiting Scientist (04.2001); Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
- Visiting Scientist (06.2001); Department of Applied Physics, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Visiting Scientist (09.2001); IFW, Dresden, Germany.
# Assistant Professor (01.2002-now); Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy.
- Visiting Professor (11.2005); “J. Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Visiting Professor (04.2007); MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany.
- Visiting Professor (07.2008); MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany.
- Visiting Professor (11.2010-02.2012); MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany.

§ Recent research activity
Condensed Matter Theory and Strongly Correlated Systems:
# Development of theoretical methods for strongly correlated systems (Composite Operator Method).
- Entanglement and ergodicity in strongly correlated systems.
- Exactly solvable systems.
# Ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated systems and superconductors out-of-equilibrium.
# Unconventional superconductivity (cuprates).
- Orbital-selective metal-insulator transition (ruthenates).
- Defects in multi-orbital Mott insulators and strongly correlated systems (vanadates).
- Magnetic-impurity scattering (Kondo and Anderson (lattice) models).
- Frustrated magnetism (extended anisotropic FM-AF Heisenberg chain).

§ Publications
70 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. 3 chapters in books (invited). 11 edited books in Condensed Matter Physics and Solid State Physics.

§ Main collaborations
G. Kotliar, N.M. Plakida, A. Schnyder, D. Manske, P. Horsch, A.M. Oles.

§ Conferences and talks
Participation in almost 60 International Schools and Conferences. Given 17 among contributed and invited talks.

§ Referee activity
Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and The European Physical Journal B.

§ Editorial activity
# Editor for AIP of the yearly published: “Lectures Notes on the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems” (2003-now).
# Editor for Springer of the three-volume set: “Strongly Correlated Systems: Theoretical, Numerical and Experimental Methods”.

§ Grants and Projects
- Principal Investigator of the Regional Research Project (second in Physics, first in Solid State Physics): “Unconventional superconductivity in cuprates” (2004-05).
- Member for Italy into the Management Committee of the Action COST P16 “Emergent Behaviour in Correlated Matter” (2006-09).

§ Teaching and supervising
- Lecturer of Mechanics, Geometrical Optics and Thermodynamics; Error Analysis; Didactic of Mechanics; Electromagnetism; Physical Optics; Computational Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Solid State Physics; Superconductivity at the Faculty of Sciences and at the Graduate School of Physics of Salerno University, Italy.
- (Co)supervisor of 1 Bachelor theses, 3 PhD theses, 9 PostDoc projects.

§ Organizational activity
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the “XI Congresso Nazionale di Superconduttività”, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy (03.2002).
# Organizer of the yearly “Training Courses in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems”, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy (10.2002-now).
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the International Conference “Highlights in Condensed Matter Physics 2003”, Salerno, Italy (05.2003).

§ Administrative activity
- Scientific Director of the Calculus Lab of the Physics Department of the University of Salerno, Italy (1999-now).
- Member of the Physical Sciences Commission of the University of Salerno, Italy (2005-08).
- Member of the Board of the Physics Department of the University of Salerno, Italy (2007-09).
- Didactic Coordinator of the Undergraduate School in Physics of the University of Salerno, Italy (2009-10)..