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Prof. FABRIZIO ILLUMINATI

Email: fabrizio.illuminati@nanotec.cnr.it
Phone number: +39 0832319826

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Fabrizio Illuminati is Full Professor of Theoretical Physics (SSD FIS/02) at the University of Salerno, where he has been serving since October 2015. Previously, he was Researcher in Condensed Matter Physics (SSD FIS/03) from 1996 to 2007 and Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics (SSD FIS/02) from 2007 to 2015 at the same University.
He earned his Master degree in Physics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1988, with a thesis on the statistical mechanics of spin and gauge models on a lattice. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Padua in 1992, with a thesis on the quantum statistical mechanics of identical particles with fractional spin.
He was a Research fellow of the Royal Norwegian Science Foundation at the University of Oslo from 1992 to 1993 and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Padua from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000 He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the University of Konstanz and the University of Potsdam, where he served also as Visiting Professor from 2003 to 2004. In 2012, he obtained the National Habilitation for Full Professor in the competitive sectors 02/A2 - Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, and 02/B2 - Theoretical Physics of Matter. He was the European Coordinator of integrated STREP projects under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, FET-Open scheme, "Future and Emerging Technologies," as well as Coordinator of national (PRIN) and regional projects.
His research activity mainly focuses on the study of the conceptual and structural aspects of quantum mechanics (theory of entanglement and nonlocal quantum correlations, dynamics of quantum open systems and quantum channels) and their application to the development of new quantum technologies (quantum illumination, quantum sensing, quantum metrology); investigation of complex quantum systems and collective quantum phenomena in ultracold atomic systems and systems with exotic and topological phases; characterization of quantum coherence phenomena in Bose-Einstein condensates and in atomic mixtures; study and development of linear and non-linear quantum optical systems with Gaussian and non-Gaussian resources; and theoretical and experimental development of quantum simulators for the study of many-body physics.
He is author and co-author of over 160 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, with a total of about 8,800 citations and an h-index of 46 (Google Scholar data, updated as of October 2024).
He has supervised a total of approximately 50 doctoral students, post-docs, and research fellows over a span of twenty years (data updated as of October 2024).