KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nanosciences to Nanotechnology in Medicine, Energetics and Electronics

Claudio Nicolini
University of Genoa, Italy

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Claudio Nicolini pursued his Doctoral degree in Nuclear Physics at the University of Padua in 1966, and became in 1967, the first Assistant Professor and subsequently Researcher Collaborator at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
From 1968, except for a short period (1970–1971), in which he was Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Bari, Claudio Nicolini has been living for 16 years in the U.S.A. (the citizenship ofwhich he still has) first as nuclear physicist at Brown University, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Then, starting from 1972 he moved to Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where after a period of intensive medical training and research, he became a tenure-track Associate Professor of Pathology (1974) and, subsequently, at the age of 33 years, Full Professor and Chairman of the Division of Biophysics at Temple University Health Sciences Center (1st January 1976). In 1984 he has been called for "chiara fama", as "Eminent Scientist", with a special law to the Chair of Biophysics of the University of Genova, where he now directs the Nanoworld Institute. On May 29 2008, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy os Sciences.

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