Prof. Paola Gallo
Curriculum vitae et studiorum
This web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate,
intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces
every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some
you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and yet
in others both of us exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me,
you have come to my gate. In another, you, crossing the garden,
have found me dead. In yet another, I say these very same words
but am in error, a phantom. Time is forever dividing itself toward
innumerable futures. - Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
in "Garden of Forking Paths"
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Work Address
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Since January 2012
Full Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
at the Dep. of Mathematics and Physics, University Roma Tre Since July 2019
President of the Physics Division
of Dep. of Mathematics and Physics, University Roma Tre January 2012 - April 2020
Associate Professor - Department of Mathematics and Physycs, University Roma Tre March 2016 - October 2019
President of the Comitato Unico di Garanzia (CUG) of Roma Tre November 2002 - December 2011 Assistant Professor
- Physics Dpt. University Roma Tre September 2000 - October 2002 Research scientist
- Physics Dpt. University Roma Tre September 1998 - August 2000
INFM research fellow - Physics Dpt. University
Roma Tre November 1996 - August 1998 Post-doctoral
fellow - Physics Dpt. University
of Rome ``La Sapienza''
May 1994 - September 1996
Research Scientist - Dpt. of Nuclear Engineering, Referee of many journals,
among them
Science, PNAS, Nature Comm., Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. B.
From 2016 Review Editor
"Frontiers in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics"
Organization of Meetings as Chair
CECAM workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Water at Interfaces from Ambient
to Supercooled Conditions,
CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
June 29 - July 1, 2009
Universita degli Studi Roma Tre,
Via Della Vasca Navale 84,
I-00146 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39-06-57337310
E-mail: paola.gallo at uniroma3.it
Present position
Former Positions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Professional activities
Prof. H. Eugene Stanley
Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Prof. Sow-Hsin Chen
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA USA
Education
September 1994
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, University of L'Aquila,
Thesis: ``Vibrational dynamics of icosahedral quasicrystals"
June 1990
"Laurea" in Physics 110/110 cum Laude, University of Rome ``La
Sapienza''.
Thesis: ``Light scattering in pure and mixed alkaly halides:
one and two
phonons processes."
July 1984
Diploma, Liceo Scientifico 60/60
Courses as professor
A.A. 2000-2001
``Statistic and Informatic Laboratory" - For the Faculty of Science
(for a tecnical enviromental
course OTA)
A.A. 2002-2006
``Interaction
of photons with matter" - For Physics , University Roma Tre
A.A. 2006-2012
``Computing Laboratory" - For Optic and Optometry, University Roma Tre
A.A. 2003-2015
``Numerical models in physics" - For Physics, University Roma Tre
A.A. 2012-current
``General Physics I and General Physics
II (one every other year)" - For Mathematics Undergrad, University Roma Tre
A.A. 2014-current
``Condensed Matter Physics"
- For Physics Grad, University Roma Tre
A.A. 2014-current
``Metastable liquids"
- For the Ph.D. in Physics, University Roma Tre
A.A. 2019-current
``Principles of Condensed Matter Theory"
- For Physics Undergrad, University Roma Tre
Courses as teaching assistant
A.A. 1998-1999 ``Physics" - For Biology, University Roma Tre
A.A. 1999-2001 ``Physics Chemistry" - For Biology , University Roma Tre
A.A. 2002-2003 ``Numerical models in physics" - Physics Dpt., University Roma Tre&Nbsp;
A.A. 1999-2003
``Statistical analysis of experimental data" -
For Biology , University
Roma Tre
Postgraduate thesis supervisor
C. Fusco - Graduated in November
2000
Thesis: ``Reaction diffusion
model of the irreversible dynamics of granular compaction"
R. Pellarin - Graduated in
October 2001
Thesis: ``Static and dynamic
properties of a confined supercooled binary mixture"
M. Rapinesi - Graduated in October 2001
Thesis: ``Water confined in a glassy pore: molecolar
dynamics study of the low hydration regime"
V. De Grandis - Graduated in June 2002
Thesis: ``Molecular dynamics simulation of structural
and thermodynamic properties of supercritical
water in presence of non polar solutes"
P. Cristofori - Graduated in July 2003
Thesis: ``Correlations and local order in non polar gas acqueous mixtures:
role of the solute polarizability"
D. Corradini - Graduated in July 2007
Thesis: ``Molecular dynamics simulations of water and of an
aqueous solution of Sodimum Chloride
in the supercooled regime: study
of the thermodynamic and structural properties"
A. Magno - Graduated in july 2009
Thesis: ``Simulazioni di dinamica molecolare per
lo studio della dinamica lenta e della transizione
fragile-forte di soluzioni sottoraffredate di acqua e trealosio"
Undergraduate thesis supervisor
A. Magno - Graduated in July 2007
Thesis: ``Molecular dynamics simulations for the localization of
the temperature of maximum density
in water with different
models of microscopic interaction"
E. Scoppola - Graduated in December 2009
Thesis:
"Molecular dynamics simulations for the study of water:
differences among the TIP4P potentials"
A. Cimini - Graduated in October 2012
Thesis:
"Ising model and parallel tempering"
M. Altorio - Graduated in May 2013
Thesis:
"Liquid-gas transition study in a Lennard-Jones system"
L. Mariani - Graduated in May 2014
Thesis:
"Study of a Lennard Jones binary mixture in the supercooled regime"
F. Ridolfi - Graduated in July 2014
Thesis:
"Structure of supercooled aqueous solutions"
A. I. Lai - Graduated in February 2018
Thesis:
"Dynamics and thermodynamics anomalies in supercooled water"
E. Bizzocchi - Ongoing
Thesis on water
Ph.D. thesis supervisor
A. Attili - Thesis Defense in June
2003
Thesis: ``Study of the Glass Transition of a supercooled liquid mixture
in bulk and confined phases"
M. Minozzi - Thesis Defense in March 2005
Thesis: ``Thermodynamic properties and spinodal curve
of supercooled water"
V. De Grandis - Thesis Defense in January 2006
Thesis: ``Monte Carlo Simulation of the Phase Diagram of
a Fluid Confined in a Fractal Porous Material "
D. Corradini
- Thesis Defense
in January 2011
Thesis: "Computer simulations on supercooled aquous solutions: the effect of slutes on the Liquid-Liquid critical point "
G. Camisasca
- Thesis Defense
in February 2017
Thesis: Slow Dynamics of Supercooled Water in Biological and Glass Forming.
Insights from Molecular Dynamics
Solutions
M. De Marzio
- Thesis Defense
in February 2017
Thesis: Dynamics and Thermodynamics in Supercooled Bulk and Confined Water.
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
P. Pugliese
- Thesis Defense
in February 2018
Thesis:
Ice Structures inside Single Wall
Carbon Nanotubes
A. Iorio Ongoing
Thesis on water
Post Docs
Maria Martin Conde
In Roma Tre from
november 2015 to october 2017.
Visiting students
J. Aragones -
Ph. D. Student visting from the Computense University of
Madrid July-August 2012
Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo methods
Relaxation Processes in complex liquids,
Thermodynamics and structure of water
under extreme conditions
Theories for the glass transition
Neutron scattering cross section
Phase diagram of
fluids confined in porous materials Former scientific Interests
Models for granular compaction
Vibrational dynamics of icosahedral quasicrystals
Raman and Brillouin scattering cross sections of
disordered solids (theory and experiment) Visit and appointments
in other institutions November - December 1999
Visiting of the Atomistic simulation group July 2008
Visting
Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics
of the Boston University, Boston USA March 2011 - March 2014
appointed visting professor and visiting and collaborating on regular basis
October 2014
Visiting the Nording Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA)
7th International Workshop: ``Disordered Systems''
INFM Meeting. Catania 14-18 june 1999. International Bunsen Discussion Meeting ``Metastable
Water''. X Convegno internazionale della Societa` Italiana di spettroscopia
International Workshop on Dynamics in Confinement
Congresso annuale congiunto Sept. 3 GNSM/CNR e Sez. C
INFM XIX convegno di Fisica Teorica e Struttura della Materia
INFM Meeting. Genova 12-16 june 2000. International Conference on Scattering Studies of NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP: VI Convegno nazionale di fisica statistica e dei
sistemi complessi IV International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations
in Complex Systems Horizons in complex systems Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics 9th International Workshop: ``Disordered Systems''
IX Convegno nazionale di fisica statistica e dei
sistemi complessi Conference on computational physics 2004 MMD Meeting EMLG Annual Meeting: liquid systems under
extreme conditions
ESF Conference: Water interfaces in physics, chemistry and biology: a
multi-disciplinary approach
E-MRS Fall meeting 2008
Present Scientific Interests
proteins, confined
and supercooled water (in the bulk phase and in solutions).
of the Queen's Belfast University, Belfast UK.
Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics
of the Boston University, Boston USA
Stockholm, Sweden
Talks given in congresses
Molveno-Andalo (TN) Italia, 1-4 Marzo 1999. Invited Talk.
Schloss Nordkirchen, Sept. 22-26, 1999. Invited talk.
neutronica (SISN). Genova, 15-17 November 1999.
Insitut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble France, 26-29 January 2000.
Perugia, 16-18 Febbraio 2000.
Fai della Paganella 26-29 March 2000. Invited Talk.
Mesoscopic Scale Structure and Dynamics in
Soft Matter
Messina, Italy, November 22-25 2000.
"New kinds of phase transitions: Transformations in disordered
substances"
Volga river, Russia, 24-28 May 2001. Invited Talk.
Parma, 29-31 May 2001. Invited
Talk.
Creta, 18-26 June 2001.
Invited Talk.
Messina, Italy, December 5-8 2001. Invited Talk.
Roma, Italy, February 27 - March 2 2002. Invited Talk.
Molveno-Andalo (TN) Italia, 10-13 March 2003. Invited Talk.
Parma, 22-24 June 2004. Invited
Talk.
Genova, 1-4 September 2004.
Genova, June 22-25, 2005. Invited
Talk.
Barcellona, September 3-7, 2006.
Obergurgl, Austria, December 8-13, 2007.
Warsaw University of Technology, September 15-19, 2008.
CECAM workshop on Modeling and Simulation of
Water at Interfaces from Ambient
to Supercooled Conditions
CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland June 29 - July 1, 2009
Invited Talk.
VI International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations
in Complex Systems
Rome, 30 August - 5 September 2009.
Invited Talk.
CECAM workshop on
Complex dynamics of fluids in disordered and crowded environments
Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS-Lyon, France June 28 - July 1, 2010
Invited Talk.
International Workshop "Passion for Soft Matter".
San Sebastian, Spain September 27 -October 1, 2010
International Workshop on Dynamic Crossover Phenomena in Water and Other Glass-forming Liquids".
Florence, Italy November 11 - 13, 2010
Invited Talk.
4th Discussion meeting on Glass Transition
Sendai, Japan February 28 - March 2, 2011
Invited Talk.
Workshop on dynamics in viscous liquids
Rome, Italy March 30 - April 2, 2011
CECAM workshop on Models for bulk, confined water and
aqueousl solutions upon supercooling: state of the art and
future perspectives in understanding water anomalies by computer simulations.
CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland July 4 - 6, 2011
Invited Talk.
13th International Workshop: ``Complex Systems''
Andalo (TN) Italia, 18-22 Marzo 2012
Invited Talk.
"Workshop on structure and dynamics of glassy,
supercooled and nanoconfined fluids''
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 16-18 May 2012
Invited Talk.
"Viscous liquids and the glass transition. X"
Holbaek (Copenhagen) Denmark June 7-9, 2012
Invited Talk.
"Frontiers in Water Biophysics 2012"
Perugia 23-26 September , 2012
"2013 American Physical Society March Meeting"
Baltimore, Maryland 18-22 March 2013.
Invited Talk.
CECAM workshop on
New insights on simulations, theory and experiments in supercooled water
CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland July 3 - 5, 2013
Invited Talk.
VII International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations
in Complex Systems
Barcellona, Spain 21-26 July 2013.
Invited Talk.
International Conference on Water Science
Beijing, China 14-17 April 2014.
Invited Talk.
International Workshop Water Europe
Zaragoza, Spain 12-14 June 2014.
Invited Talk.
Italian Soft Days 2014
Rome, Italy, 17-18 September 2014.
International Conference on Water - the
Most Anomalous Liquid
Stockholm 19,25 October 2014.
Invited Talk.
"Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XIII"
Holbaek (Copenhagen) Denmark May 28-30, 2015
Invited Talk.
"Frontiers in Water Biophysics 2015"
Erice 7-12 September , 2015
101-mo Congresso Nazionale della Societa' Italiana di Fisica
Roma, Italy. September 21-25 2015
Invited Talk.
International Workshop on the Structure and Dynamics
of Supercooled Water and Other Glassy Materials
Palermo 10-13 October, 2015
Invited Talk.
2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 29 - December 4, 2015
Boston, Massachusetts
Invited Talk.
Workshop on Topics in Soft Condensed Matter
MIT, November 29 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invited Talk.
XXV Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics,
"Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Confined Systems".
Barcelona (Spain), June 6-10 2016.
Plenary Talk.
STAT-PHYS 2016 satellite meeting:
Water X: exotic properties of water under extreme conditions
Nice (France) 14-16 July, 2016
Invited Talk.
Course on "Water and Water Systems"
Centro Ettore Majorana in Erice (Sicily)
July 22-31 2016.
Invited Lecturer.
Workshop on "Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids: will theory and experiment ever meet?"
Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark 5-7 April 2017
Invited Talk.
Conference on Frontiers in Water Biophysics
Centro Ettore Majorana in Erice (Sicily)
May 23-28 2017.
Invited Talk.
8th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems
July 23-28, 2017. Wisla (POLAND)
Invited Talk.
Research course and Symposium on "trends in water research"
February 26-March 1, 2018. DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
Invited Talk.
"WaterX: Exotic properties of water under extreme conditions workshop"
June 3-8 2018. Circle Ufficiali della Marina in La Maddalena, Sardinia (Italy)
Course on "Water and Water Systems: the hydrophobic effect"
July 4-11 2018.
Centro Ettore Majorana in Erice (Sicily)
Invited Lecturer.
Telluride (TSRC) workshop on "Water: Grand Challenges for Molecular Science and Engineering"
July 9-12, 2018, Telluride, Colorado, USA.
Invited Talk.