Short Curriculum Vitae

          Cecilia Pennetta graduated in Physics at the University of Lecce in 1979. In 1983 she received the “Magister Philosophiae”
          degree in Physics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy. She was guest for two years
          at  the  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of  Lausanne, Switzerland.  In 1985  she  became  assistant professor at the Science
          Faculty of  the Lecce University,  carrying out her research activity in the Physics Department.  Starting  from 1999  she is
          member of the Innovation Engineering Department of  the same University and from 2002 she is associate professor at the
          Science Faculty. She has been involved in several research projects and she has been responsible for some of  them.  She
          was member of  selection  committees of CNR, INFM and University positions.  She  is  referee of  international  journals
          and international projects.  Her research activity  concerns  theoretical  and  computational aspects  of  solid state  physics
          and of the physics of disordered and  complex systems. In particular, her earlier studies have concerned with the electronic
          properties of  crystalline semiconductors and the diffusion of  charged  impurities in  these  materials  investigated  by  total
          energy  self-consistent pseudopotential calculations. Starting from 1996 her activity is devoted to the study of the electronic
          transport  properties,  breakdown processes  and   fluctuations  of   the  electrical  properties  of   semiconductors,  metals,
          oxides, conductor-insulator composites  and other disordered materials,  which are  mainly analyzed by using   the  resistor
          network approach, percolation models and  Monte Carlo simulations. Recently, she has started  to study of  the properties
         of complex networks  and of  large biomolecules. She is the author of more than 60 international publications.
 

        Teaching Activity:

• 1980, Assistent at the course of Electronic Theory of Solids, for physics undergraduates students, Ecole Polytechnique of Federal Lausanne (CH).
• 1981, Assistent at the course of Materials Physics, for electrotechnical engineering undergraduates students, Polytechnique Ecole Federal of Lausanne (CH).
• 1985-88, Assistent at the course of Structure of Matter, for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1986, Lectures on Electronic Band Structure Calculations in Solids, within the course of Solid State Physics for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1988-90 Assistent at the course of General Physics II, for mathematics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1990-98 Assistent at the course of General Physics II, for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1993-94 Assistent at the course of General Physics I, for mathematics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1994-97 Assistent at the course of Structure of Matter, for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1996-98 Assistent at the course of Physics, for biology undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1997-98 Assistent at the course of General Physics II, for environmental sciences undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1999-2002 Assistent at the course of  General Physics I, for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.
• 1998-2002 Charged of the course of  Structure of Matter, for physics undergraduates students, University of Lecce.

       Partecipation to National and International Research Projects:

• Responsible in 1991-1994 of the Lecce group of Section G "Computational Theor. Physics and Cybernetics" of the National Institute for Matter Physics (INFM).
• Responsible of the ``STATE'', Stochastic Approach to Electromigration, project of the Section E of the National Institute for Matter Physics, (PAIS 2001/2002).
• Partecipant to the project Italia-Lituania 1997-99 "Cooperation in research and develop. of submicrometrics electronics", supported by ``Ministerodegli Affari  Esteri Italiano (MURST)''
• Partecipant to the project NATO Linkage N. 960931, "Electronic devices for Tera-Hertz applications", project co-director L. Reggiani.
• Partecipant to the project NATO Linkage Supplement N. 970627, "Nanostructure electronics for Tera-Hertz applications", project co-director L. Reggiani.
• Partecipant to the project "Physics of nanostructure", sponsored by MURST for 1997-99, national coordinator Prof. R. Cingolani.
• Partecipant to the MADESS II project of CNR "Study and simulation of the electronic properties of advanced devices: effects of high energetic electrons'', national coordinator Prof. C. Jacoboni (1999-2001).
• Partecipant to the project Italia-Francia ``Galileo'', "A new technique for noise modellization in microelectronics devices",1999-2000, resp. Prof. L. Reggiani.
• Partecipant  to the project  "Simulation and study of  phase noise in bipolar transistor oscillators  for microwaves applications", contract I/R/056/01 supported by ASI (Italian Space Agency) for 2000-2001, responsible Prof. F. Fantini.
• Partecipant to project  SPOT-NOSED "Single Protein Nanobiosensor Grid Array", supported from European Economics Community (CEE) for 2002-2005, responsible Prof. J. Samitier, University of  Barcelona.
• Partecipant to the project "Modelli e misure di rumore in nanostrutture" financed by the Italian MIUR (COFIN03).

         Partecipation to National and International Societies and Institutes:

• Member until 1994 of the Section  G, "Computational Theoretical Physics and Cybernetics" of the National Institute for Matter Physics (INFM), Italy.
• Member of the Section E ``Semiconductors and Insulators'' of the same Insitut, network on Computational Study of Physics Properties of Semiconductors and Insulators, Italy.
• Member of Material Research Society, USA.
• Member of the permanent Staff of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory, Lecce, Italy

        Main Collaborations (chronological order):

• Prof. Alfonso Baldereschi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Svizzera ed Universita di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
• Prof. Stefano Baroni, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
• Prof. Lino Reggiani, Universita' di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
• Prof. Laszlo Kish,  Texas A&M  University, Texas, USA.
• Prof.. Zoltan Gingl,  JATE University, Department of Experimental Physics, Szeged, Hungary.
• Dr. Adriano Cola and  Massimo Mazzer, Istituto Nuovi Materiali per l'Elettronica (IME), CNR, Lecce, Italy.
• Dr. Gyorgy Trefan, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, INFM, Lecce, Italy.
• Prof. Fausto Fantini, Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Ingegneria, Universita' di Modena, Modena, Italy.
• Prof. Andrea Scorzoni, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell'Informazione, Universita' di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
• Prof. Ilaria De Munari, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Parma, Parma, Italy.
• Dr. Gabriel Gomila, Department of Electronics and Research Center for Bioelectronics and Nanobioscience, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
• Dr. Eleonora Alfinito, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, INFM, Unita' di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
• Dr. Matteo Borgarino, Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Ingegneria, Universita' di Modena, Modena, Italy.
• Prof. Marco Sampietro and Dr. Giorgio Ferrari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
• Dr. Roland Salesse, Dr. Edith Payot, Institut National pour la Recherche Agrononomique (INRA), Jouy-en Josas, France.
• Prof. Stefano Ruffo, Dipartimento di Energetica "S. Stecco", Universita' di Firenze, Firenze, Italy