| Name | Giacinto Scoles, FRS |
| Address | SISSA-ISAS, Via Beirut 2-4, Trieste,
34014, Italy SENIL (Sissa-Elettra Nano Innovation Laboratory) AREA Science Park – Basovizza, Basovizza SS 14, km 163,5 Trieste, 34012, Italy |
| gscoles@princeton.edu |
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| Nationality | Italian by birth, Canadian since 1977, US citizen since 1996 |
| Date of birth | 2 April 1935 |
| Recent Positions |
| • 2003 - Date | Professor of Biophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Miramare, Trieste, Italy |
| • 2008 - Date | Donner Professor of Science,
Emeritus, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1009
USA
and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Previous Appointments |
| • 2009 | Senior Consultant to the International
Center for Science and High Technology
of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO). Responsible for the Nanotechnology and Nano Drug Delivery Group. | |
| • 2005-2009 | Scientific Coordinator of LANADA the Laboratory for NAno Diagnostic, Drug Delivery and Analysis of CBM, the Consortium for Biomolecular Medicine in Trieste, Italy. | |
| • 2003-2009 | Collaborator of ELETTRA, Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza (Trieste ), Italy | |
| • 1987-2008 | Donner Professor of Science at
Princeton University
Chemistry Department and Princeton Materials Institute | |
| • 1971-1986 | Prof. of Chemistry and Physics, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada | |
| • 1984 | Visiting Professor of Quantum Electronics, University of Pisa, Italy | |
| • 1982-1985 | Director, Centre for Molecular Beams and Laser Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada | |
| • 1977-1978 | Professor of Solid State Physics, University of Trento, Italy | |
| • 1974-1975 | Acting Director, in its founding year, of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry | |
| • 1968-1971 | Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of Genova, Genova, Italy | |
| • 964-1968 | Assistant Professor Physics Department, University of Genova,Genova, Italy | |
| • 1961-1964 | Research Associate, Kamerlingh-Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands | |
| • 1960-1961 | Assistant Professor Physics Department, University of Genova,Genova, Italy | |
| honors | ||
| • 2006 | Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics – April 2006 | |
| • 2006 | Research Prize of the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Bochum (Germany) | |
| • 2005 | Creativity Award from the NSF 2003-2005 | |
| • 2004 | Texas A&M University, Frontiers in Chemical Research Lecturer – January 2004 | |
| • 2004 | Moscowitz Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, October 2004 | |
| • 2004 | Keynote speaker at the Symposium celebrating the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the Materials Science Department of the University of Milano II | |
| • 2003 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Jan. 2003 | |
| • 2003 | 2003 E.K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy of the APS | |
| • 2002 | 2002 American Chemical Society’s Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry | |
| • 2001 | H. E. Gunning Lecturer, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada) | |
| • 2000 | Keynote Lecturer at the 2000 Symposium on Chemical Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada | |
| • 2000 | Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of The Netherlands. | |
| • 2000 | Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Waterloo (Canada). | |
| • 1999 | Samuel M. McElvain Lecturer, University of Wisconsin (Madison) | |
| • 1997 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.) | |
| • 1996 | Honorary Doctorate in Physics from the University of Genova (Italy). | |
| • 1995 | Recipient of a Senior Fellowship of the A. von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) | |
| • 1995 | Lippincott Award of the O S A, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. | |
| • 1986 | Senior Killam Fellowship (Canada Council) | |
| experience | ||
| • 2009 | Member of the EPSERC committee for the review of chemical research in the UK | |
| • 2008/9 | Member of the advisory committee of the Molecular Sciences Institute of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands | |
| • 2008 | Member of the Editorial board of “Nanomedicine” | |
| 2007• 2009 | Member of the Committee of the COPERNICUS prize, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy | |
| • 2006-09 | Member of the evaluation committee of the “Istituto di Ricerche Scientifiche e Tecnologiche” of the Fondazione B. Kessler of Trento, Italy | |
| • 2005 | Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Chemistry Department of the EPFL , Lausanne, CH | |
| • 2005 | Member of CIVR Evaluation Committee for Nanoscience and Technology In Italy | |
| • 2005 | Member of CIVR Evaluation Committee of Physics Research in Italy | |
| • 2003 | Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Institute for Atomic and Mol. Science of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan | |
| • 2003 | Member of the Committee of Visitors for the DOE program in Material Science | |
| • 1992-02 | Member of the Executive Committee of the Princeton-NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center | |
| • 1999-01 | Member of the Editorial Board of Langmuir | |
| • 1999-01 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry | |
| • 1998-00 | Member of the Panel to Review the Research Institute for Materials of the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands | |
| • 1992-97 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Ann. Rev. of Phys. Chem. | |
| • 1996-97 | Associate Editor of the Review of Modern Physics | |
| • 1991-96 | Member of the Executive Committee of Princeton Materials Institute | |
| • 1991-94 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemical Physics | |
| • 1992 | Member of the panel to review the proposed new DOE Environmental and Molecular Science Laboratory (Battelle Northwest, Hanford, WA.) | |
| • 1990 | Chairman of the Program Committee of Princeton Materials Institute | |
| • 1990 | Member of the DOE visiting committee for the evaluation of Brookhaven’s Chemistry Department | |
| • 1988-91 | Member of the Experiments Evaluation Committee, TRIUMF (Vancouver)(muonium chemistry). | |
| • 1988-90 | Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Physics Letters | |
| • 1987 | Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Chemistry Department of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | |
| • 1984-89 | Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physical Chemistry | |
| Professional Societies | ||
| Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of The Netherlands | ||
| Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (U.K.) | ||
| Fellow of the Optical Society of America | ||
| Fellow of the American Physical Society | ||
| Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (inactive) | ||
| Member of the American Chemical Society | ||
| Chair of Princeton Section of the American Chemical Society for 1988 | ||
| Chairman of the Chemical Physics Division of the American Physical Society (1995) | ||
| Organization of Meetings and Schools | ||
| 2008 | Co-Chair of HOT NANOTOPICS 2008 held in Portoroz, Slovenia | |
| 2007 | Co-chair of the ICTP Spring College on Water in Chemistry, Physics and Biology | |
| 2007 | Co-chair of the first ICTP College on Nanoscience in Africa (Capetown) | |
| 2006 | Session organizer at the National meeting of the Italian Physical Society Torino | |
| 2006 | Co-chair of the IV Stig Lundqvist Conference on Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Mater Physics, Trieste, Italy | |
| 2006 | Co-director of the ICTP College on Science at the Nanoscale, Beijing, August 2006 | |
| 2004 | Director of ICTP Spring College on Science at the Nanoscale, Trieste, (3 weeks) May-June 2004 | |
| 2004 | Co-organizer of the Workshop on Organic-Thin Films satellite to the Users Meeting of Elettra Synchrotron Laboratories in Trieste, Italy, October 2004 | |
| 2003 | Co-Chair of the symposium on Organic Thin Films held at the March Meeting of the APS in Austin (Texas) March 2003 | |
| 2003 | Co-Chair of the Third Stig Lundqvist Conference on Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics, Trieste (Italy) August 2003 | |
| 2001 | Co-Chair of the Second Lundqvist Conference on the Advancing Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics. Int. Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy) July 2001 | |
| 2001 | Co-Chair of the Symposium in Honor of P. Eisenberger, Princeton, N.J. | |
| 2000 | Co-Chair of the ACS Symposium on Cold Molecules, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2000 | Co-Chair of the 10th Int. Conf. on Thin Films and Surfaces, Princeton, N.J. | |
| 1996 | Chairman of "Chemistry: Between Matter and Life" Princeton, N.J. Oct. 1996 | |
| 1996 | Chairman of the Laser Chemistry section of ILS'96. | |
| 1995 | Responsible for the Chem.Phys. Div.program at the March Meeting of the APS | |
| 1995 | Chair of the Gordon Conf. on "Molecular and Ionic Clusters" | |
| 1992 | Vice-Chair of the Gordon Conference on "Molecular and Ionic Clusters" | |
| 1992 | Co-chairman of the XIV Intl.Symp. on Molecular Beams, Asilomar, CA | |
| 1992 | Chair of the Symp. on Intermolecular Forces (ACS meeting, San Francisco) | |
| 1988 | Director of the E. Fermi Summer School on "The Chemical Physics of Clusters", Varenna, Italy | |
| 1984 | Chair of the Symp. on "Photodissociation (CIC Meeting, Montreal) | |
| 1982 | Director of the NATO ASI on the "Applications of Lasers to Chemistry" | |
| 1982 | Chair of the Symp.on "Modern Aspects of Surface Science", CIC Meeting Toronto, Canada | |
| 1979 | Chair, "VII Int.Symp. on Molecular Beams" held in Riva del Garda (Italy) | |
| 1979 | Chair, "Int.Workshop on the Scientific Applications of Free Electron Lasers | |
| 1979 | Scientific secretary of the E. Fermi Summer School on "Atomic Scattering from Solid Surfaces" | |
| 1968 | Scientific secretary of the E. Fermi Summer School on "Molecular Beams and Reaction Kinetics" | |
| Invited Papers Given at Conferences in the Last
Five Years (Total of approx. 50)
Lectures and Seminars Given in the Last Five Years (Total 53) Refereed Publications: in excess of 260 with an H-index larger than 54 Number of PhD degrees conferred > than 60 | ||
| Languages | |
| Mother tongue | Italian |
| Excelent Speaking and writing skills: English, Spanish, French, Dutch |
| Good Speaking and writing skills: German, Portuguese, Catalan |