Prof. Giancarlo Ruocco

Professor at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy

Giancarlo Ruocco is full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University of Rome and the coordinator of of the “Center for Life Nano- and Neuro-Science (CLN2S)”, a laboratory of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he is also senior scientist and principal investigator of the research line “Nanotechnology for Neuroscience”. He is member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, of the Academia Europaea and of the European Academy of Science. He has been the director of the Physics Department and vice-rector for the politics of the research at “Sapienza” University of Rome. His research line hosts about 30 Post Docs and 20 PhD students from different disciplines (Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, Medical doctors, Physicists). In 2019 he has been awarded by a ERC Synergy grant for the study of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease and in 2023 by a EIC Pathfinder Open for the development of Brillouin microscopy. He is the scientific director of two industrial joint laboratories (one devoted to innovative microscopy techniques, the other to the development of biosensors for the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases). He is author of 500+ publications which received 15000+ (20000+) citations and his Hirsch index is 68 (75) according to Scopus (Scholar). For a detailed description of Giancarlo Ruocco’s activities in the period 1990-2015 see: 10.5488/CMP.22.40101 (Giancarlo Ruocco: from inelastic X-ray scattering to neuroscience, Condensed Matter Physics, 2019, 22, 40101).