Francesco Ciccarello is an Associate Professor of Physics of Matter (FIS/03) at University of Palermo and Associate Researcher of NEST, Pisa, CNRNano.

He has been awarded the Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Matter (02B2) and Theoretical Physics of fundamental interactions (02A2). 

In 2016-17, he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Research Scholarship which was spent at Duke University, USA. Formerly, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2011-2012) and a visiting fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (2008).

He is member of the Editorial Board of the journals: Quantum, Journal of the Optical Society of America B (Optica/OSA), Entropy (MDPI), Plos One (PLOS) and Journal of Physics Communications (IoP).  He is editor of the Entropy’s special issue, currently open for submissions, titled “Quantum Collision Models".

He serves as referee for several international peer-reviewed journals including Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Nature Photonics, npj Quantum Information, Nature Quantum Materials, Physical Review Letters, PRX Quantum, Quantum Science & Technology, Quantum.

He gave 18 invited and over 20 contributed talks at international conferences and workshops plus about 30 invited talks at various international academic institutions and research centers, including Oxford University, Imperial College, ETH Zurich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Purdue University, Stanford University.

He authored over 60 papers published in ISI peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review Letters, Optica, Physics Reports, Nanophotonics, New Journal of Physics, Quantum Science & Technology, Scientific Reports, Physical Review A, Physical Review B and Physical Review Research.

H-index (as of Jan 2024): 27 (WOS), 30 (Google Scholar). Total number of citations (as of Jan 2024): 1903 (WOS), 2800 (Google Scholar).

Organized international conferences: 1st workshop on waveguide QED, Mazara del Vallo, Italy, 4-8 June 2018; 2nd workshop on waveguide QED, online, 21-25 June 2021; IQIS2022, Palermo, 12-15 September 2022, 3rd workshop on waveguide QED, Erice, 8-13 May 2023.

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