AMENDOLA VINCENZO

Curriculum vitae of Vincenzo Amendola (2020)
ORCID: 0000-0002-9937-7005
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=WC6jRFQAAAAJ&hl=it
Home page: http://www.chimica.unipd.it/vincenzo.amendola/

Education and qualification
April 2017: Qualified by A.S.N. as “Full Professor”.
September 2015: Appointed Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
September 2014: Short term visiting researcher at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (Institute of Molecular Medicine).
January 2014: Qualified by A.S.N. as “Associate Professor”.
September 2011: Appointed “Professore Aggregato” for the lecture in “Laboratory of Physical Chemistry” at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
February-August 2011: Academic Visitor at Cambridge University in U.K. (Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics).
December 2008: Appointed Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
January-November 2008: PostDoc at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
March-September 2007: Visiting PhD Student at the at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in U.S. (Department of Material Science and Engineering).
November 2005: School “Transmission Electron Microscopy in Materials Science”, Italian Society of Electron Microscopy (Bologna – Italy).
January 2005 - March 2008: PhD in Material Science and Engineering at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
September 2004: Research Assistant at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Padova University.
June 2004: Master in Material Science (110 cum laude/110) at Padova University..

Grants and Awards
2007: Travel Grant (Aldo Gini Foundation) for exchange PhD student at MIT in the group of Prof. F. Stellacci
2008: Semerano Prize for the best Italian PhD thesis in Chemical Physics. Awarded by Società Chimica Italiana, section of Physical Chemistry
2008: Primo Levi Prize for the best Italian Young Chemist author of original research. Awarded by Società Chimica Italiana
2010: Winner of the cover competition for the special issue of J. Phys. Chem. C about LASiS
2011: Royal Society Travel Grant for academic visitors at Cambridge University in the group of Prof. A.C. Ferrari.
2011: Alceste Mion Prize for Chemistry awarded by Dr. Comm. Alceste Mion Foundation
2012-2014: PI of the Grant “Laser ablation synthesis of magneto - plasmonic nanostructures” (University of Padova)
2012-2013: PI of Networking Grant (University of Padova)
2012-2015: Co-Investigator of the Grant “Innovative tools for cancer risk assessment and early diagnosis” (AIRC).
2013-2015: Co-Investigator of the PRIN Grant “Italian network for the development of multivalent nanosystems” (MIUR)
2013-2016: Co-Investigator of the Strategic Grant “Nanochemistry and medicine for cancer: from diagnosis to treatment” (University of Padova)
2014: QualityNano Travel Grant for short term visiting researcher period at Trinity College Dublin (European Commission).
2014-2015: PI of Networking Grant (University of Padova).
2015-present: Participant of the COST Action MP1302 “Nanospectroscopy”
2015: Innovators Under 35 prize awarded by the MIT Technology Review Italy and the Research Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum (in the person of the President Prof. Romano Prodi)
2017: PI of the University Cooperation Grant (University of Padova)
2017: PI of Research Contract “Development of optical and plasmonic sensors for proteins” (Private Company)
2017: PI of the Italy-Argentina Great Relevance Grant “Laser-assisted synthesis of innovative contrast agents for multimodal biomedical imaging“ (MAECI)
2018: PI of the STARS Grant “4NANOMED” (University of Padova)
2020: PI of the P-DiSC Grant “DYNAMO” (University of Padova)

Papers in peer reviewed journals and citation data:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=WC6jRFQAAAAJ&hl=it
Patents:
1 Italian patent #0001404916/2013.
1 (PCT) WO 2020/044384 A1
1 Italian patent application

Books: 2 book chapters, 2 books co-authored and 1 book published as primary Contact Editor (CRC Press, 2012) with the title “Self-Healing at the Nanoscale: Mechanisms and Key Concepts of Natural and Artificial Systems“. The book has a foreword by Prof. F. Stellacci and several contributions by high profile scientists (for instance Prof. M. Strano from M.I.T. and U. S. Schubert from Jena).
Conferences: >30 contributions to national and international conferences.
Invited talks at NanoInnovation 2020 (Rome, Italy), UltrafastLight 2019 (Moscow, Russia), International workshop on nanoparticles and nanostructures synthesized by plasmas for energy applications 2019 (Sapporo, Japan), Nano Materials & Devices 2019 (Paestum, Italy),
The Gold Conference (Paris, 2018), ANGEL (Lyon, 2018), SPIG conference (Belgrade, 2018), Laser Applications in Plasmonics (Szeged, 2017), COST MP15107 Training School on Nanocomposites (Byalistok, 2017), Workshop “Appunti di Fisica Teorica” organized by the University of Messina in memory of Prof. F. Borghese (2017), Nano for Health (Belgrade, 2016), E-MRS (Lille, 2016), NANOCON (Brno, 2016), Nanotexnology (Tessalonika, 2014), LPM (Vylnius, 2014) (Special session about liquid-assisted laser nanofabrication), Young Minds Symposium at CNR – Messina (2013), II Symposium of Plasmonica (La Plata, 2014), ANGEL (Engelberg, 2010) (the first international conference about Laser Ablation and Nanoparticle Generation in Liquids), SCI (Sorrento, 2009) (at the plenary session of the conference for the centenary of the Italian Society of Chemistry), SAYCS (Pesaro, 2008).

Other records
2014: QualityNano Travel Grant for short term visiting researcher at Trinity College Dublin.
2011: Royal Society Travel Grant for academic visitors at Cambridge University
2010: Winner of the cover competition for the special issue of J. Phys. Chem. C about LASiS.
2007: Aldo Gini Foundation Travel Grant for exchange PhD student at MIT
2017: Guest Editor and Cover of the special issue in J.Coll.Intef.Sci. for the 25th anniversary of laser ablation.
2017: Guest Editor and Cover of the special issue in ChemPhysChem about “Colloids with lasers”.
2009: The review “Self-healing at the nanoscale” (Nanoscale 2009) was highlighted in Highlights Chem. Technol., 2009, 6, T89–T96.
2016: The paper in Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys., 2016, 18, 2230 was highlighted in Atlas of Science.
2017: The paper “Surface plasmon resonance of silver and gold nanoparticles in the proximity of graphene” (PCCP 2016), was included in the themed collection “2016 most accessed PCCP articles”
2018: The review “Surface plasmon resonance in gold nanoparticles: a review” (Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017) was included in the special issue Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Highlights of 2017 and made open access for 2018.
2016: Cover of Analythical and Bioanalytical Chemistry issue 408 (2016).
2011: Cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry special issue “Laser Ablation and Nanoparticle Generation in Liquids “(2011)
- 7 Invited Reviews / Perspectives / Highlights / Editorials: Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. 2009 and 2013, Nanoscale 2009, J.Mater.Chem. 2012, J.Phys.Cond.Matt. 2017, J.Coll.Interf.Sci. 2017, ChemPhysChem 2017.
- 4 manuscripts ranked ‘highly cited papers’ (top 1%) from ISI Web of Science (Plasmonics 2010, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009 and 2013, J. Phys. Chem C 2009).
- 6 papers appeared in the list of “most read articles” of the respective journals (Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. 2013, J.Mater.Chem. 2012, Nanoscale 2009, J.Phys.Chem.C pp.4277-4285 2009, Anal.Methods 2011, Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. 2009).

Organization of conferences
- Co-chair of the ANGEL 2016 conference (www.angel-conference.org)
- Member of the organizing committee of the special session about Laser Ablation in Liquids at LPM 2017 (Toyama).
- Member of the Program Advisory Board of the ANGEL conference series (2017 – present)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ANGEL conference series (2016 – 2017)
- Member of the organizing committee of the 2016 conference of the Italian Society for Raman Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Phenomena,
- Member of the working group in “Plasmonics and nano optics” of SIOF (2015-2017)
- Member of the scientific committee of the Italian School of Photonics: Plasmonics and Nano-Optics (2016).

Journal Reviewer activity for ACS Appl. Nanomater, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Adv. Electron. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Mater. Interf., Anal. Chem., Angew. Chem., Appl. Phys. A, Appl. Phys. Lett., Appl. Surf. Chem., Chem. Rev., ChemComm, Chem. Mater., ChemPhysChem, ChemPhysLett, J. Coll. Intef. Sci., J. Laser Micro/Nanoeng., J. Mater. Chem., J. Nanop. Res., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. C, Langmuir, Light NPG, New J. Chem., Nano, Nano Energy, Nano Res., Nanoscale, Nature Commun., Nature Photonics, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Physica Status Solidi A, Plasmonics, RSC Adv., Scientific Reports, Small.

Grant Reviewer activity for FIRB “Futuro in Ricerca”, PRIN, University of Florence, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the French Agence Nationale de la Recerche, the Translational Research and Advanced Imaging Laboratory of Bordeaux University, MegaGrant Russia.