Marco Polini

Marco Polini graduated in Physics in 1999 from the University of Pisa (Italy) and received his Ph.D. in Physics in January 2003 from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). After his PhD he worked with Allan MacDonald at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) as a postdoctoral researcher and then returned to Pisa for a Researcher permanent position (2003-2015) at the National Research Council (CNR). In 2015 he resigned from CNR to lead the “Theory and technology of 2D materials” group as a Senior Scientist at the Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa (Italy). On December 31, 2019 he joined the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa, where he is a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics. From 2017 to 2022 he was a “Visiting Professor” at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Manchester (UK), where he worked with Andre Geim. Marco has co-authored more than 220 publications in peer-reviewed international journals including Physics Today, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters, and the book “Many-body Physics in Condensed Matter Systems” (Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2006). His publications have received more than 30.000 citations for an Hirsch index of 74 (Google Scholar). He has carried out research at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), at the Zhejiang Normal University (China), at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (China), at Purdue University (USA), at the University of Missouri-Columbia (USA), at Texas A&M University (USA), at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara (USA), at the University of New South Wales (Australia), at the Cambridge Graphene Center (UK), at the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre in Singapore, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), at the Institute of Photonic Sciences – ICFO (Spain), and at the University of Manchester (UK). In 2010 he was awarded with the prestigious Italian grant “FIRB - Futuro in Ricerca”. In 2023 he was selected as "Fellow of the American Physical Society" by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP) with the following citation: "For contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in solids, including the theory of electron hydrodynamics in graphene". His recent interests include cavity quantum electrodynamics of correlated electron systems, twisted quantum materials, quantum effects in energy storage, and global approaches to universal quantum computing. In 2021 he co-founded “Planckian”, a deep tech Start Up working on the development of scalable-by-design quantum computing architectures. Marco has a wonderful daughter, an amazing fiancée, and many dearest friends.