Simone Capaccioli

Simone Capaccioli was born in Firenze (Italy) on 10th November 1966. He got a Master Degree in Physics (University of Pisa), and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (Politecnico of Milan). He obtained INFM fellowships, Post-doc contracts at Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Mainz (2001-2002) and at University of Pisa (2002-2004). Later (2004-2008) he got a 5 year contract as Researcher at the Institute CNR-INFM “SOFT” in Roma. He has been Visiting Scientist at Naval Research Laboratory (Washington D.C.), at Tokai University (Japan) and at Physics Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). In 2008 he joined as a Staff Member the Physics Department of the University of Pisa (Italy), where in June 2020 he has been appointed Full Professor for the Chair of Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics. Since September 2018 he is the Director of the Center of Instrumentation Sharing of University of Pisa (cisup.unipi.it), that is managing the core facilities of the University.
He is author or co-author of more than 190 peer-reviewed papers published on International Journals (ISI database), 4 invited papers on Monographic Volumes and 2 international patents. (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-8918). Scopus search on 25-03-2022: Total number of citations: 4616 (Scopus); H-index: 38 (Scopus).
He has been speaker at 51 International Conferences (among which 25 times for invited/keynote talks).
He has been co-organizer of: International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems (Roma 2009, Barcelona 2013), Workshop on Stability of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals (Castiglioncello 2013, Pisa 2015), Minicolloquium on Physics of Pharmaceutical Amorphous Solids within CMD25–JMC14 (Paris 2014), Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Conference (Pisa 2016). He is member of the Scientific Board of the International Dielectric Society and of the Academic Senate of the University of Pisa. He has been PI of Significant Research Project between Yanshan & Pisa University “Studies of relaxation and crystallization of amorphous drugs” supported by the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry within the framework of the Scientific and Technologic Cooperation between Italy and China 2013-2015.
His main research areas are the physics of disordered materials (polymers, viscous liquids, glasses), of partially ordered phases (plastic crystals, liquid crystals, liquid-crystalline polymers), porous materials and physics of biomolecules. In particular, he recently studied:
a.the effect of pressure/temperature on the dynamics of glass-formers;
b.the transport and the charge relaxation in porous materials;
c.the molecular dynamics (by dielectric and neutron spectroscopy) in cryo-protective water mixtures and in protein/solvent systems;
d.the effect of nano-interface and confinement on the dynamics and crystallization kinetics of thin polymer films;
e.the dynamics and thermodynamics of amorphous pharmaceuticals
f.the dynamics of proteins embedded in galss-formin solvents.
He is expert in the following experimental methods: Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy at ambient and high pressure; Rheo-dielectric technique; Neutron Scattering; Scanning Probe Microscopy: Atomic Force Microscopy, Electric Force Microscopy, Kelvin Probe Microscopy.