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Massimiliano Di Ventra | |
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| Nationality | American-Italian |
| Alma mater | EPFL |
| Known for | Transport in nanoscale systems, DNA sequencing by tunneling, memcomputing, memcapacitors, meminductors, Stochastic DFT |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed Matter Physics, Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Biophysics, Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | UCSD |
Massimiliano Di Ventra is an American-Italian physicist who has made numerous contributions in theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics, in particular transport properties of nanoscale systems [1], non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of many-body systems [2], DNA sequencing by tunneling[3], memristors, memcapacitors, and meminductors [4]. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics summa cum laude from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1991 and did his PhD studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1993-1997, after one year of mandatory military service. He has been Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University and Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center before joining the Physics Department of Virginia Tech in 2000 as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and moved to the Physics Department of the University of California, San Diego, in 2004 where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2006.
Di Ventra's research interests are in the theory of electronic and transport properties of nanoscale systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, DNA sequencing/polymer dynamics in nanopores, and memory effects in nanostructures for applications in unconventional computing and biophysics.