Giovanni Filatrella

Education

1983 - 1989: M.S. degree Physics (Laurea in Fisica) University of Salerno

Vote: 110/110 cum laude

1989 - 1992: PhD degree in Physics (Dottorato di Ricerca), Consorted Universities of Napoli and Salerno

Main Professional Experiences

June - August 1989: Development of numerical programs in Fortran for the integration of nonlinear differential equations at the Physics Department of the University of Salerno (short term contract).

January 1993 – June 1994: Post-doc employee. Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl Experimentalphysik II, University of Tübingen, under the EEC Program Human Capital and Mobility (Marie Curie Fellow).

July –October 1996:  Post-doc employee. Physics Department, University of Salerno.

October 1996 – March 2011: Researcher, ever since associate professor at the University of Sannio, Department of Sciences and Technologies.

Since July 2020, qualification as full professor of theoretical condensed matter.

Main teaching experiences

-At the University of  Sannio:

a) From 1999 to 2005, introductory one semester courses in “Statistical Data Analysis” and “Experimental Physics” for Biology students

b) Since 2003, a one semester course of fundamental Physics for first year Biology students

c) Since 2005, a one semester course of Physics applied to Biology for M. S. students

d) 2006 – 2009: Member of the PhD school committee in Life and Earth Sciences

- At the University of Salerno:

Graduate course in “Numerical techniques” (1994).

Coordinator of the graduate student Course: “Innovation in the enterprises”, Physics Department (2001)

Graduate course: “Nonlinear dynamics of Josephson junctions” (2011)

Graduate course: “Economic analysis of technological substitution” (2011)

Graduate course: “The economic dynamics of technological innovation” (2013-2017)

Member of the PhD school committee in Physics, University of Salerno (2009)

-At the Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

Guest-professor (1997 and 1998) of the ''PhD school of nonlinear dynamics''

Has acted as Referee of journals such as

- Chaos, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Complexity, Digital Signal Processing, Economia Politica, Economics of Innovations and New Technology, Entropy, European Physical Journal B, Europhysics Letters EPL, IEEE Transactions on Superconductivity, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Journal of Superconductivity, Measurements Science and Technology, New Journal of Physics, Nonlinearity, Nonlinear Dynamics, Physica A, Physica C, Physical Review B and E, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters A, Scientific Reports, Sensors, Superconductor Science and Technology

- a book from the Routledge publisher

-  two research projects of the “German-Israeli Foundation”

- for a PRIN research project (2013)

Main Coordination and Organization Duties

1.            1998. Member of the organizing committee of the international meeting: ''Nonlinear dynamics in stacked Josephson junctions'', Marina di Camerota, 25-28 October 1998.

2.            1998-2001. Principal investigator of the NATO project: ''Two and three dimensional arrays of Josephson junctions'' (CRG972236) Partner: University of Maryland- USA

3.            1999-2001. Participation to the International collaboration Italy-Israel (CNR-MOST): ''Nonlinear dynamics of Josephson networks''.

4.            2000. Member of the scientific committee of the international school  “The Josephson effect”', Salerno, 29-30 June 2000.

5.            2000. Member of the scientific committee of the international Euroconferece ''Physics and Application of Multi-junctions Superconducting Josephson Devices'', Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 1-6 July 2000.

6.            2001-2003: Responsible for the Research Unit of Sannio-L’Aquila within the National Research Program research network “Josephson Junctions Networks in Quantum Regime: Theoretical Aspects and Experimental Counterpart” sponsored by the Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR); other participants: Universities of Roma “La Sapienza” and “Tor Vergata”, University of Torino, university of Perugia (project leader), 2001-2003.

7.            2007. Member of the organizing committee “7th International AQDJJ conference: Frontiers of Josephson Physics and Nanoscience”, Palinuro,  2007

8. In the framework of the programm “Training in Italian Laboratories”  of ICTP (Trieste, Italy), supervisor of:

2007/2008: “Synchronization mechanisms in nonlinear systems” (3 years)

2012: “Nonlinear dynamics of stochastic self-sustained systems”  (6 months)

2013: “Nonlinear dynamics of stochastic self-sustained systems” (3 months) of ICTP

9.            2017-2019: coordinator of the committee for quality assurance, University of Sannio

10.          2014 – present: member of Italian National Association “Physics and Applications” (ANFeA)

Visits to Research Institutes:

Physics Laboratory I, The Technical University of Denmark: August-November 1988 (Erasmus Program EEC), July-October 1990 (Grant Fondazione Angelo Della Riccia), June-July 1991, July-August 1992, November-December 1992, August- September 1996, August-September 2001, July 2002 (ESF network VORTEX Project), October 2006, February 2007 ( ESF network “Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions”

November 2013 (COST program MP1201 Nanoscale Superconductivity: Novel Functionalities through Optimized Confinement of Condensate and Fields).

Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, CNRS, France, November-December 1989

Centre de Compétence et Conception in Circuit Intégrés, Archamps, France, May-June 1993

School of Physics, Atlanta Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April-May 1994

Physikalisches Institut, University of Tübingen, Germany, April - May 1995

The Center for Superconductivity, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, September-October 1998, August-September 1999, December 1999 (NATO Collaborative Research Grant), January 2001

Has given about 20 invited talks at Research Institutes, 10 invited at International Conferences and Schools, and 25 talks at International Conferences.