Avaldi
Lorenzo Avaldi, is director of research at CNR, served as Director of CNR-IMIP and CNR-ISM since 2008. He leads the Molecular Dynamics and Applications group and has been the scientist in charge of the Gas Phase Photoemission Beamline project at Elettra. Author of about 250 papers, 30 contributions to books and Conference Proceedings and about 110 invited talks and seminars (h-index: 36 [Scopus]).
The beginning of the mandate was characterized by the need to implement the deliberation 143 (20/12/2013) of the CNR which established the merging of the Rome and Potenza sections of the IMIP institute into ISM. A need that then reappeared in 2017 with the aggregation of the two ISC institute sections in ISM.
In order to consolidate the aggregations, actions were taken at the scientific level with the definition of research activities of the Institute, which have to represent and include the existing multiplicity of research lines, as well as at the management level through the rationalization of the administrative and management procedures in the four branches of the Institute. A general debate via panel discussions defined the following research activities of ISM : Low density and low dimensional systems; Modeling, Synthesis and characterization of functional materials with magnetic, electrical and optical properties; Biological processes, materials and diagnostic technologies for life sciences; Ultra-fast processes in materials and sensors, innovative devices and instruments.
These lines of activity clearly show how the Institute performs interdisciplinary research of excellence in the fields of physics, chemistry and materials science. With a pronounced trait and high-level experimental and theoretical expertise in basic science, the Institute experienced some difficulty to participate to both European and national calls strongly oriented to applications. Despite this, the 2014-2019 period has been characterized by various successes both in the H2020 FET projects and MISE ones in sectors such as materials and devices for the conversion and storage of energy at high temperature, applications of magnetic nanoparticles in thermoelectric devices and the circular economy for the reuse and enhancement of the properties of used polymeric materials.
During this period, the Institute consolidated its participation at the large research infrastructures of synchrotron radiation and, beside the beamlines managed at Elettra, installed a laboratory for ultra-fast spectroscopies. This laboratory , which performs cutting-edge research by itself, acts also as national user support laboratory for the preparation of experiments at FEL sources in Italy and Europe. The ISM has also actively participated in the definition of the new beamlines that will be active on Elettra 2.0, as well as contributed to the MicroNanoFab regional infrastructure at the Tor Vergata Research Area.
This period was also characterized by the criticality generated by the rather large number of staff with temporary contracts. In the announced imminence of the promulgation of a law (GU130, 7/6/2017) to transform these contracts in permanent positions and then of the application of the law (2018/2019), the research groups and the institute itself had to make a strong financial effort to guarantee to the colleagues the opportunity to benefit from the opportunity offered by the law.
From a personal point of view in these years I have learnt that the ISM assets is mainly represented by the people who work in the Institute, with their skills, their know-how and the enthusiasm with which they face the daily difficulties of the research work in the our country. I hope that my daily commitment has contributed to reinforce this assets.
In order to consolidate the aggregations, actions were taken at the scientific level with the definition of research activities of the Institute, which have to represent and include the existing multiplicity of research lines, as well as at the management level through the rationalization of the administrative and management procedures in the four branches of the Institute. A general debate via panel discussions defined the following research activities of ISM : Low density and low dimensional systems; Modeling, Synthesis and characterization of functional materials with magnetic, electrical and optical properties; Biological processes, materials and diagnostic technologies for life sciences; Ultra-fast processes in materials and sensors, innovative devices and instruments.
These lines of activity clearly show how the Institute performs interdisciplinary research of excellence in the fields of physics, chemistry and materials science. With a pronounced trait and high-level experimental and theoretical expertise in basic science, the Institute experienced some difficulty to participate to both European and national calls strongly oriented to applications. Despite this, the 2014-2019 period has been characterized by various successes both in the H2020 FET projects and MISE ones in sectors such as materials and devices for the conversion and storage of energy at high temperature, applications of magnetic nanoparticles in thermoelectric devices and the circular economy for the reuse and enhancement of the properties of used polymeric materials.
During this period, the Institute consolidated its participation at the large research infrastructures of synchrotron radiation and, beside the beamlines managed at Elettra, installed a laboratory for ultra-fast spectroscopies. This laboratory , which performs cutting-edge research by itself, acts also as national user support laboratory for the preparation of experiments at FEL sources in Italy and Europe. The ISM has also actively participated in the definition of the new beamlines that will be active on Elettra 2.0, as well as contributed to the MicroNanoFab regional infrastructure at the Tor Vergata Research Area.
This period was also characterized by the criticality generated by the rather large number of staff with temporary contracts. In the announced imminence of the promulgation of a law (GU130, 7/6/2017) to transform these contracts in permanent positions and then of the application of the law (2018/2019), the research groups and the institute itself had to make a strong financial effort to guarantee to the colleagues the opportunity to benefit from the opportunity offered by the law.
From a personal point of view in these years I have learnt that the ISM assets is mainly represented by the people who work in the Institute, with their skills, their know-how and the enthusiasm with which they face the daily difficulties of the research work in the our country. I hope that my daily commitment has contributed to reinforce this assets.
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