Franco Dalfovo

Rector's delegate for Collegio Clesio

University of Trento

Full professor

Department of Physics

Via Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo

tel. 0461 281565

franco.dalfovo[at]unitn [dot] it
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Expertise:

Atomic and molecular physics

Condensed matter physics

Low-temperature states

Many-body systems

Quantum physics

Ultracold gases

	Education
	1985-88: PhD in Physics, Università di Padova 1979-84: Laurea in Fisica, Università di Trento
	Academic career and teaching activities
	Employment history: From 2005: Full professor of Physics of Matter, Physics Department, University of Trento 1999 – 2004: Associate professor, Faculty of Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia 1990 – 1999: Assistant professor, Faculty of Science, Università di Trento 1988 – 1989: Postdoc fellow, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, and Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble Teaching: Courses in: General Physics (Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism), Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Physics, Superfluidity. MSc and PhD Seminars in: Atomic Physics, History of Science and Epistemology, Theory of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates.
	Research interests
	Theory of quantum gases, liquids and solids; superfluidity and coherence; Bose-Einstein condensation; quantized vortices; quantum mixtures; solitons; helium nanodroplets; Fermi gases.
	Research work
	Bibliometrics (from ISI-WoS, citation report on February 2018): Publications: 99 H-index: 34 Average citation per article: 82.66 Citations: 8183 Citations without self-citations: 7941
	Memberships in societies and scientific committees
	2006-2015: member of the editorial board of Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 2006: member of the editorial board of Physical Review A. 2003-2009: member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids. From 2005: associate to CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. 1995-2004: associate to Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia. 1986-1996: associate to Istituto Italiano di Fisica Nucleare.
	Conferences and lectures
	1995-2007: main organizer of the national annual meeting "Fisica Teorica e Struttura della Materia" and member of the scientific committee. Member of the organizing committee of: Workshop on "Clusters of Quantum Fluids" (Trento, June 1989); International Workshop on "Bose-Einstein Condensation" (Levico Terme, June 1993); Workshop on "Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates" (Trento, June 2000); Workshop on "The Physics of Quantum Fluid Clusters" (ECT*, Trento, Sept 2002). Chairman of the International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids - QFS2004 (Trento, July 2004). Chairman of the 2017 Annual Meeting of INO-CNR (Trento, February 2017). Chairman of the International workshop on Quantum Mixtures (Trento, July 15-17, 2019).
	Other work
	From 2020: Director of the Physics Department, University of Trento. 2017-2020: Member of “Nucleo di Valutazione” of the University of Trento. 2013-2017: Chairman of the Recruitment and Promotion Committee of the University of Trento. 2010-2019: Head of Trento Unit of Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, INO-CNR BEC Center. From 2007: Associate Editor of Physical Review A. 2005-08: Director of the Physics Department, University of Trento. Reviewer for journals and funding agencies.