prof. Alfonso FRANCIOSI
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Scientific coordinatorMBE - Materials DivisionTASC-INFM National Laboratory e-mail franciosi@TASCdomain Tel 040 375 6421 |
Alfonso Franciosi was born in 1955 and obtained his laurea degree in Physics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1978 summa cum laude. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1980 to 1981, mostly focusing his work on the electronic properties of transition metal silicides and metal/silicon interface chemistry by means of the synchrotron radiation sources Tantalus (240 MeV) and Aladdin (1 GeV). In 1982 he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as an Associate Scientist. In 1983 he became an Assistant Professor with the same Department, establishing a research program in the area of electronic materials growth and directing a research group at the Synchrotron Radiation Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 1988. In the U.S. he has been Principal Investigator of numerous research projects funded by NSF, ARO, ONR, 3M, Honeywell, Sperry, Control Data Corporation, etc.
From 1993 to 1999 he held concurrent appointments as Director of the TASC National Laboratory of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM) in Trieste, Associate Professor of Physics with the University of Trieste, and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with the University of Minnesota. As Director of TASC-INFM he was responsible for the activities of a research staff of 60, organized in 5 Divisions (Materials, Quantum Devices, Surface Structure, Chemisorption, and Analytical). Since 2000 he is Professor of Physics with the University of Trieste and continues to lead the Materials Division of the TASC-INFM Laboratory in the synthesis and characterization of new semiconductor materials and nanostructures. He is Principal Investigator of numerous ongoing research projects funded by INFM, CNR, Pirelli, MIUR, and by the Commission of the European Communities.
Professor Franciosi has published over 270 papers in refereed international journals on the physics and materials science of semiconductors, semiconductor heterostructures, superlattices, quantum wells, metal/semiconductor contacts, thin film nucleation and growth, lasers and optical modulators, and holds 3 U.S. patents in such fields. He has given over 30 invited presentations at international conferences. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Americal Physical Society "for his contribution to the understanding of the properties of interfaces, including semiconductor heterojunctions and metal/semiconductor contacts, and his efforts to bridge the gap between basic interface science and applications". Professor Franciosi is the current Chair of the INFM National Committee for Synchrotron Radiation Research and a member of the board of the Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
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