International School of Advanced Studies

ANDREA DI CICCO graduated with honors (1987) and obtained a PhD (1991) in Physics at the University of Rome ”La Sapienza” with a thesis on the x-ray absorption spectroscopy. He then carries out his academic career mainly at the University of Camerino (Unicam) where he obtained first researcher (1990) and then professor (2000) positions, alternating periods of work near prestigious international institutions related to the activity to research at ”large scale facilities”. Over the years he has held various positions of representation and management both at the university headquarters, including the direction of the Physics section, both at national level, also acting as a member or president of many commissions for comparative assessments of INFM, CNR, and Universities competitions. He also hold others executive positions becoming president of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS).

The main research activity in the last 30 years was devoted to the development, interpretation and multi-disciplinary applications of x-ray techniques in studying materials of interest for basic and applied sciences. He published as main author or co-author more than 200 publications on international journals, cited more than 6000 times in the literature. Current h-index is 38 (ISI WoK) or 41 (Google Scholar). He is presently included in the ”top italian scientist” list of the Virtual Italian Academy. Invited speaker at several international conferences and referee for many scientific journals. Chairman of the XAFS14 and LAM14 international conferences, he is co-editor of 2 books of proceedings, one EPJ Special Topic issue and 1 book about GnXAS. He has been, several times, invited scientist at SSRL, ESRF, and invited professor at University of Paris-Sud (XI), UPMC (Paris VI, international chair), Rennes. Current president of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society and ex-officio chair of the International X-ray Absorption Society (IXAS). He has been awarded in August 2015 of the ”outstanding achievement award” (Stern prize) of the International X-ray Absorption Society IXAS. He is co-author of the advanced GnXAS multiple-scattering data-analysis method, available for the scientific community through the GnXAS website. He has been responsible of the TIMEX project for the exploitation of the free electron laser Fermi@Elettra source, and consultant (2007-2103) at the ELETTRA/FERMI synchrotron radiation and FEL facility (XAFS beamline and TIMEX). He has been responsible of the Italian unit within the European project SIRBATT for studying and developing new materials for Li-ion batteries. He is currently responsible of the Camerino research unit within the national PRIN project NEWLI (NEW LIght on transient states in condensed matter by advanced photon - electron spectroscopies). He is responsible of the Physics Division at the University of Camerino and coordinator of the PhD programs. He is currently engaged in research about matter under extreme conditions and on functional materials for energy applications. Both research lines have been financed at national and international level and scientific results have been published on highimpact journals.