Maria Principe

1. ACADEMIC RECORD AND PERSONAL INFO

1.3. Education and training

- March 2018: Associate Professor qualification (ASN)  in Experimental Physics of Matter (02/B1, FIS/01)

- July 2010: PhD in Information Engineering at University of Sannio with a thesis in experimental physics entitled “Noise Modeling and Reduction of Gravitational Wave Detection Exeriments”

- December 2006: Master Degree in Telecom Engineering at University of Sannio (110/110 magna cum laude and honorable mention)

- November 2004: Degree in Telecom Engineering at University of Sannio (110/110 magna cum laude and honorable mention)

1.4. Professional experience

- December 2021-present: Senior Researcher (RTD-b) in Experimental Physics of Matter at the Engineering Department of University of Sannio

- January 2020-December 2021: research collaborator at CeRICT (Regional Center on Information Communication Technology) in Benevento.

- October 2018-July 2019: L’Oréal–UNESCO “Per le Donne e la Scienza” fellow at Centro studi e ricerche Enrico Fermi, in Rome.

- September 2017-October 2018: post-doc researcher at Physics Department “E.R. Caianiello” of University of Salerno.

- December 2014-December 2016: research collaborator at CeRICT (Regional Center on Information Communication Technology) in Benevento.

- December 2013-November 2014: post-doc researcher at Engineering Department of University of Sannio

- July 2011-July 2013: employee in R&D department of AgustaWestland-Finmeccanica (July-September 2011) and Micron Semiconductor (September 2011-July 2013) companies.

- October 2010-July 2011: post-doc researcher at Engineering Department of University of Sannio.

M.P. suspended her activity three times for mandatory maternity leave.

1.5. National and International Research Fellowships

• October 2009-April 2010: Fulbright fellowship at Department of Physics and Astronomy & Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas, USA;
• June 2006-December 2006: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) fellowship at Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL), in Legnaro (PD), Italia;
• July 2005-October 2005: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA.

1.6. Teaching activity

• from a.y. 2020/21-present: Professor of Experimental Physics at Engineering Department of University of Sannio
• from a.y. 2018/2019 to a.y. 2020/21: Professor of Experimental Physics at Science and Technology Department of University of Sannio
• from a.y 2015/16 to a.y. 2020/21: Professor of Physics at Giustino Fortunato University.

1.7. Editorial board membership

• Associate Editor of Journal of Optics and Photonics Research, Singapore Bon View Publishing
• Editorial board member of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944; CODEN: MATEG9, IF 2.467)  MDPI publishing (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials)
• Special collection 2018 “Recent Advances and Trends in Optical Metamaterials and Metasurfaces” in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Journal (http://journals.sagepub.com/page/nax/special-collections/call-for-papers/optical-metamaterials-and-metasurfaces);
• Member of the Italian Physical Society SIF from 2008.
• Member of INFN-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare from 2007 to 2011 and  from 2013 to 2019.

1.8. Referee Activity

• Invited Reviewer for “The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland” for Early Career Research projects funding;
• Scientific Reviewer, for several high impact factor Journals among which: Physical Review & Physical Review Letters (APS) , Advanced Optical Materials, (Wiley-VCH GmbH),  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (IOP), Optics Express (OSA), Nanomaterials (MDPI) , Nanophotonics (De Gruyter), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), Physical Review Applied (APS).

2. RESEARCH RECORD 

2.1 Scientific Production and Impact

• 225 articles in ISI peer-reviewed Journals
• 3 chapters of book
• total number of citations: 58295 (scopus at 28/8/2023)
• indice di Hirsch: 86 (scopus at 28/8/2023)

2.2. Talks and Conferences 

• Chair and organizer of the Special Session “Optical Coatings for Extreme Metrology” during XXXXI  PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2019, 17-20 June, Rome (IT);
• Organizer of the Special Session “Advances in GW Signal Processing and Data Analysis” at the XXVI European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2018, 3-7 September, Rome (IT);
• Member of the Local Organizing Commitee: XVIII Riunione Nazionale di Elettromagnetismo (RiNEM), Sept 6-10 2010, Benevento (IT), 6-10 September 2010.
• M.P. participated as Invited Speaker to the following conferences:
  
  • Global Virtual Summit on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology on “Innovatory Advancements: Micro to Nanotechnology and Real-World Applications, “ 1-2 July 2022
  • Advance Materials Lecture in Advanced Materials World Congress, 11-14 October 2022, Stockholm, Sweden;
  • 4th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences, 27 October to 10 November 2023
• M.P. participated as Speaker of more than 30 talks presented at national and international conferences.

2.3. Prizes and Scientific Awards

• 2022 – Among best communications at National Congress of the Italian Physics Society (SIF)
• 2022 - Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), in recognition for her contribution to “Applications of Nanotechnology”
• 2022 – Among the top-cited scientists of the year 2021 according to the ranking made by researchers from Stanford’s University based on Elsevier’s data [Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Mendeley Data, V4, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.4]
• 2022: Poster Award in “Health and Life Sciences” section during the World Congress and Applied Sciences 2022: Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, held on March at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar
• 2018: L’ORÉAL–UNESCO “PER LE DONNE E LA SCIENZA” for young female researchers;
• 2016: Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics “for the observation of gravitational waves, opening new horizons in astronomy and physics.” (https://breakthroughprize.org/News/32);
• 2016: Gruber Cosmology Prize “for pursuing a vision to observe the universe in gravitational waves, leading to a first detection that emanated from the collision of two black holes” (http://gruber.yale.edu/prize/2016-gruber-cosmology-prize);
• 2010: GWIC Thesis Prize-Honorable Mention as best PhD thesis assigned by the Gravitational Wave International Commitee (https://gwic.ligo.org/thesis-prize.html);
• 2009: Fulbright Fellowship (1st in national ranking) for Visiting Researcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy & Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas, USA;
• 2008: Honorable mention as best work presented at  il XCIV Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica, Genoa, IT;

2.4. Direction and Participation to research projects

- 2024-2025: Research Unit Principal Investigator of the project “Advanced Lab-On-Fiber optrode based on Mie-Void resonators for multiple biomarker detection in breast cancer – ALIVE (P2022KWK8F)” funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research under the program PRIN PNRR 2022.

- 2017-2020: Direction of research activity related to Work Package 2: “Sviluppo di meta-superfici per applicazioni sensoristiche” of the project LIFE - Lab-on-fiber technology for advanced optical nanoprobes (MIUR-PRIN 20155ACHBN).

- 2017-2019: Direction of experimental activities “progettazione e sviluppo di coatings dielettrici a basso rumore termico basati su metamateriali stratificati” of the project iCORE - Innovative Mirror Coating Research, supported by "Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi"

- 2007-present: Member of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration

- Participation as member of unit research to the following projects:

• 2020-present: NANOCAN - Nanofotonica per la lotta al cancro (CUP B51C17000050007)
• 2020-present   PIT STOP - Nanophotonic platforms for ultrasensitive liquid biopsy (MIUR-PRIN 20173CRP3H)
• 2013-present: Attività di ricerca riguardo lo studio e lo sviluppo di meta-materiali per
• applicazioni ottiche avanzate in fibra ottica
• 2017-2019: Virgo Coating R&D
• 2014-2016: AdCOAT - Coating Avanzati Ottimizzati per l’Abbattimento del rumore Termico, finanziato da INFN Commissione-V
• 2015-2016: OPTOFER - Tecnologie optoelettroniche innovative per il monitoraggio e la diagnostica dell'infrastruttura ferroviaria (PON03PE_00155_1)
• 2013-2014: SICURFER - Tecnologie innovative per la sicurezza della circolazione dei veicoli ferroviari (PON 01_0142)
• 2014 : Smart Health 2.0 Education (PON04a2_C - CUP Formazione B88F12000410007),
• 2010-2011:  MIDI-BRUT - Miscele Dielettriche a Basso Rumore Termico, finanziato da INFN Commissione-V
• 2007-2009: COAT - Coating Ottimizzati per l’Abbattimento del rumore Termico, finanziato da INFN Commissione-V