Prof. Stefano BELLUCCI

Prof. Dr. habil. Stefano Bellucci obtained in 1982 the Laurea in Physics Degree at Univ. Sapienza Rome (summa cum laude) and in 1986 his Ph.D. in Physics of elementary particles at SISSA, Trieste. He worked as Research Associate at Brandeis Univ., USA (1983-1985); as visiting researcher at M.I.T., Cambridge, USA (1985-1986), at Univ. of Maryland, USA (1986-1987), at Univ. of California at Davis, USA (1987-1988). He was appointed as a Tenured Researcher (Research Staff) at INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) in 1987. He was appointed as INFN First Researcher (Senior Research Staff) in 2005. Since 2024 and until 2026 he is a Scientific Researcher of level I at the Optical Processes in Nanostructured Materials of the National Institute Of Materials Physics in Magurele, Bucharest, Romania. He coordinated (1999-2002, 2011-2015) all LNF theoretical physics activities. Italy Ministry of University in 2013 (reconfirmed in 2023 until 2034) habilitated him as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions and in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Since 2018 he is contract Professor of Nanotechnology for Electrical Applications at the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale. Contract Professor of Quantum Mechanics (Physics III), for third year students in the Diploma Course in Physical Methods (2000-2022), Department of Physics, University of Roma Tre. His research interests include theoretical physics, condensed matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanocarbon based composites, toxicology, biomedical applications. His lab cultivated over 40 PhD and master students. He published 1000 papers with 18000 citations (5500 citations since 2020) in peer-reviewed journals with Hirsch index h = 64, and 20 invited book chapters, http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mOq8urEAAAAJ. Editor and/or co-author of over 10 books with Springer. Top Italian Scientists, with rank 44  https://topitalianscientists.org/tis/3422/Stefano_Bellucci_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Material_&_Nano_Sciences. 

Received B.W. Lee Prize at Erice School of Subnuclear Physics (Italy) 1982. In 1980 he was selected as Summer student at CERN (Geneva). He led INFN applied physics CSN5 experiments: 2006-2010 NEXT for new electron sources and X radiation, 2004-2006 MINCE for micro and nano technology, 2001-2004 NANO for carbon-based nanotechnology. He was in 2007-2010 INFN Scientist and technologist in charge for EU FP7-ICT-2007-1 Collaborative Project CATHERINE ”Carbon nAnotube Technology for Highspeed nExt-geneRation nano-InterconNEcts”.

He is Editor-in-chief of Section Carbon MDPI Materials; Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology; Editor-in-chief of Hindawi Journal of Nanomaterials; biannual (2012-2014) Associate Editor of ASP Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters. He is Editorial Board Member of e.g. the MDPI Journal of Functional Biomaterials, Hindawi Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, and Computer Modelling and New Technologies.

He is Director of the NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division, SPS Programme projects “Nanocomposite based photonic crystal sensors of biological and chemical agents,” “Development of Biosensors using Carbon Nanotubes”. He is Principal Investigator of Time2Quest Condensed Matter Theory INFN CSN4 project, and of Research Group Projects 2020 “High Pressure Sanification of Water for Foodborne Virus removal (HPSWFood)”.

He is INFN scientist in charge of University Research Ministry project “a Smart Framework for vIrus Detection (SFIDE)” and of EU project “Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond, GRAPHENE Flagship” Core1, and of Health Ministry project “Delivery and imaging of miRNAs by multifunctional carbon nanotubes and circulating miRNAs as innovative therapeutic and diagnostic tools for pediatric pulmonary hypertension”, and of Space Agency project “SHAPE-A New Theoretical Framework of Microgravity-Cell Interaction”. He is Principal Investigator of the Romanian PNRR projects investment i8, Composite materials for the applications in the water management field. He is the INFN scientist in charge of the Long-Term Joint European Union - African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE) project “RCLIB - Recycling of the cathodes, based on carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers, from spent rechargeable Li batteries”.