Rocco ROMANO | Curriculum

prof. Rocco Romano was born in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio (Na), Italy, in 1966.

In 1995, he graduated in Physics cum laude at the University Federico II of Naples with a dissertation entitled Spectral sensitivity of an interferometer utilizing light squeezed vacuum.

In 1999 he achieved Ph.D. in Physics at the University Federico II of Naples, defending a thesis entitled Characterization of tumor cells resistant to drugs and not using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance High Resolution .

He has been the winner of many scholarships and a research grant in the fields of data analysis, quantification algorithms applied to medical physics and environmental monitoring.

He is currently Ful Professor (FIS/07) at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Salerno.Pronuncia Copia negli appunti

In 2006 he achieved a specialization in medical and environmental physics at the University Federico II of Naples.

Since 2009 he is a Qualified Expert of the III-rd degree in ionizing radiations. Since 2006 prof. Romano is associated to Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and he collaborates on the project VIRGO in the field of the environmental monitoring, data analysis and development of inertial sensors.

The current research lines of prof. Romano are related to - Development of techniques for statistical data analysis, quantification algorithms and Monte Carlo methods for NMR spectroscopy; - Development of sensors for environmental and biomedical applications (accelerometers, seismometers, interferometric sensors, environmental sensors, adaptive optics systems); - biomedical, industrial and environmental applications of ionizing and non ionizing radiations.

In 2016, he signed the article on the discovery of gravitational waves (Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Physical Review Letters, 11 February 2016, DOI:10.1103/Physrevlett.116.061102), first observed on 14 September 2015, for which he is awarded, in May 2016, together with researchers of the collaborations LIGO and VIRGO signatories of the work, of the Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics Awarded For Detection Of Gravitational Waves 100 Years After Albert Einstein Predicted Their Existence (https://breakthroughprize.org/News/32).

For the same discovery, first observation of gravitational waves of 14 September 2015, Barry Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss, as promoters and founders of the instruments LIGO (Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017.

He is author/co-author of over 320 publications (H-index: 71, No. 37304).